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Bitcoin setup, backup, and recovery guides.

These guides explain the practical side of self-custody: choosing a wallet, setting it up safely, protecting seed backups, using multisig or PSBT workflows, and planning for recovery or inheritance.

What this section covers

Wallet setup, backup durability, inheritance planning, and advanced signing workflows for people who want fewer irreversible mistakes.

Flagship guide

Ultimate Bitcoin Safety Guide 2025

A complete field guide to hardware wallets, seed phrase discipline, multisig, inheritance planning, and the mistakes that permanently destroy self-custody.

15 min readRead guide
Legacy planning

Bitcoin Inheritance Planning Guide

How to structure heirs, executors, multisig signers, and written instructions so your Bitcoin survives you without exposing keys today.

12 min readRead guide
Advanced security

Multisig Basics

A practical primer on 2-of-3 and larger multisig setups, who should use them, and how to avoid coordination and recovery failures.

10 min readRead guide
Operational discipline

Air-Gapped Bitcoin Signing Guide

A walkthrough of offline signing, PSBT workflows, QR and microSD transfers, and the operational discipline required for maximum isolation.

12 min readRead guide
Backup durability

Seed Phrase Backup Guide

Compare paper and metal seed storage, backup durability, geographic separation, and recovery testing for long-term Bitcoin safety.

10 min readRead guide
Next step

Use the guides, then check your own setup.

Once you know the basics, run the audit to check your backups, firmware habits, and inheritance readiness against the guidance in these pages.