June was an exciting month for my developer journey. I had the opportunity to participate in the Bitcoin Lightning Bootcamp at Zone01 Kisumu, where I explored the Bitcoin ecosystem beyond what I had previously known and collaborated with an incredible team to build a project called Continuum.
Building Continuum
During the hackathon, my team developed Continuum, a privacy preserving Bitcoin inheritance protocol.
One of the biggest challenges in the Bitcoin ecosystem is that millions of bitcoins have become permanently inaccessible because their owners lost their private keys or never had a secure inheritance plan.
Continuum addresses this problem by using the Lightning Network to implement a proof of life mechanism. Users periodically send small Lightning payments to prove they are still active. If these proof of life payments stop beyond a configured period, the system securely triggers an inheritance workflow, allowing beneficiaries to access encrypted recovery instructions.
