Annual Family Fire Drill•Uses a $5 Practice Wallet — Never Your Real Seed

The 30-Minute Family Recovery Drill Simulator

A Bitcoin inheritance plan that has never been tested fails under stress. Once a year, hand your spouse or heir your printed Document A (Family Master Letter) and a $5–$10 throwaway practice wallet, start this 30-minute timer, and sit on your hands without coaching them.

30-Minute No-Coaching Drill Timer

30:00

Rule: Do not point at the screen or explain acronyms. Write down every spot where they hesitate.

Interactive Drill Scorecard (0 / 5 Checkpoints Passed)

1. Throwaway $5–$10 Practice Wallet Prepared

You created a separate practice wallet with $5–$10 of Bitcoin (or testnet sats) and NEVER exposed your real cold-storage seed backup during this rehearsal.

2. Anti-Scam Shield Verified First

Your spouse or heir read the Red Anti-Scam Shield at the top of Document A out loud and confirmed they will never type recovery words into a browser or contact 'crypto support'.

3. Located the Physical Pieces Without Coaching

Sitting on your hands without giving hints, your heir used only the written location clues in Document A to find where the device, PIN envelope, and passphrase/descriptor live.

4. Opened Companion Software & Checked Balance (Read-Only)

Your heir opened the companion wallet app (Sparrow, Trezor Suite, Ledger Live, Green, or Bitkey) and verified the $5–$10 practice balance.

5. Completed Test Transaction Sweep Under 30 Minutes

Your heir signed and broadcast a test send from the $5–$10 practice wallet without getting stuck.

Where Did Your Family Member Hesitate? (Friction Log)

Family Member / Heir Who Ran This Drill

Elapsed Drill Time

Notes to Fix in Document A (BIP-39 Seed Blocker Active — Never type practice or real seed words)