Bitcards

STRAIGHT ANSWERS

For people who ask the hard questions.

Everything we get asked, answered plainly, including the parts that are not in our favour.

Why pay for this when I can just send sats for free? +
You're right, the transaction is ~free. What you're buying is the object and the on-ramp: something real to hand someone, with no exchange, no app and no account on their end. If you just want to move sats, send a transaction. If you want to put bitcoin in someone's hand, that's this.
Can Bitcards spend the bitcoin? +
No. The key is two halves: ours printed and sealed on the card, yours is 12 words your own phone makes and never sends to us. Neither half works alone and we keep no copy. One honest note: the card's address is public, so anyone can watch the balance. Watching isn't spending. And remember: no words = no bitcoin · no backup.
How do I know my words never left my phone? +
Because spending takes both halves, and yours never existed anywhere but your own phone and your own handwriting. And you don’t have to trust the page: it is one self-contained file that runs in airplane mode, with a zero-networking build you can save and keep forever.
What does the recipient need to open it? +
Just a phone. They scan the QR, peel the seals, and follow the phone. The finished key sweeps into Sparrow, Electrum or any normal wallet. Nothing to install, no account.
What's in the box? +
One card in the finish you chose, in a protective sleeve. The back carries the QR, the 12-word strip and a serial number. No electronics, no battery, nothing to charge.
What if Bitcards the company disappears? +
Nothing changes for the holder. Any saved copy of that page opens it, a short published script does the same, and the whole method fits on one page, printed on the card as a recovery line. The bitcoin depends on two sets of words plus public mathematics, never on our servers.
What if the card is lost? +
It works like cash: whoever holds it holds the coins. Both halves live on this one card, so destroying the card destroys the bitcoin, and losing the words does the same. No one, including us, can restore it. No words = no bitcoin · no backup.
Is this legal / does it need KYC? +
No KYC, because there's nothing to KYC: we sell an empty card and never take custody of funds. You fund it with your own bitcoin and the recipient controls it. We stay a product, not a money business.

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