When the waiting period has ended you will receive notification that your inheritance funds are available for transfer. Until you have successfully initiated the transfer of these funds to your wallet, the funds can still be accessed by your benefactor, or by anyone with access to your benefactor’s wallet.
To transfer the funds to your Bitkey wallet after the waiting period has ended:
- Open the Bitkey app
- As soon as you open the app after the waiting period has ended, the claim status will automatically change to Claim approved.
- Navigate to the Confirm inheritance transfer screen
- If this is your first time opening the app after the waiting period has ended, you will be automatically placed on this screen.
- If you previously closed this screen, or if it’s not visible when you launch the app, you can access it by clicking on the blue banner titled Inheritance approved on the Bitkey app Home Screen.
- Review the details for the transfer of the funds to your wallet and select Transfer.
- If you are unable to initiate the transfer at this time, you can close out this screen and then repeat the steps above when you are ready. The claim status will remain as Claim approved.
- Transfer transaction
- If the transfer was successful:
- Your wallet balance will update to reflect the amount of the inheritance transfer.
- The inheritance transfer transaction will be visible in your transaction history.
- The claim status will remain as Claim approved. If you no longer wish to see the name of your benefactor, see How do I stop being a beneficiary?
- If the transfer was not successful, repeat the above steps again.
- If the transfer was successful: