GreenAddress / Green Wallet Timelock Recovery
Bitcoin Inheritance
GreenAddress pioneered Bitcoin's two-factor authentication multisig model and its successor, Blockstream Green, maintains the foundational timelock-based key recovery mechanism. Legacy GreenAddress accounts continue to benefit from the nLockTime transaction pre-signing system, where the wallet pre-signs transactions that release to the user's single key after a configurable number of blocks — providing a built-in, trustless inheritance trigger that does not require active key holder participation.
Details
- Note
- Legacy GreenAddress; current product is Blockstream Green
- Key Scheme
- nLockTime pre-signed recovery transactions
- Open Source
- Yes
- Service Type
- Legacy Bitcoin 2FA multisig with timelock inheritance
- Custody Model
- 2-of-2 multisig (user + GreenAddress/Blockstream server)
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