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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: How to time-lock your coins with the new Schedule an email (gmail) to send later
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o_e_l_e_o
on 13/09/2021, 10:01:55 UTC
i just did this with a vanity address i created, i am regifting my self bitcoin on a special date a few years out
Even after everything discussed in this thread, you still decide to go ahead and do it? We'll, here's hoping you only committed a small amount of bitcoin, since if anything happens with Google or your receiving email provider, or they discontinue the service, or even just a minor bug, your coins are lost forever.

If you really wanted to irreversibly lock up some coins, then just sign a timelocked transaction to yourself and delete the relevant private key. Still a stupid thing to do, but far far safer than trusting an unknown number of intermediary third parties.