Bitcoin gift card – print it blank, fill it in by hand

Pick the occasion, then type the name, a short note (a line or two) and the amount straight onto the card below if you like – those are not secrets. Print A4, landscape, one-sided, at 100% scale, and fold along the two dashed lines. Write the recovery words on the inside panels by hand, with a pen, and keep no copy anywhere – not typed here, not photographed, not in a password manager. The card then is the wallet, and the person you hand it to owns what is on it.

Making the wallet that goes on this card

  1. Create it on a machine that cannot go online. SignerOS boots from a USB stick, runs in RAM and writes nothing private, ever – its Create a wallet flow is walked through screen by screen here, and the image and how to check it are here. Twelve words is plenty for a gift and much less to copy by hand.
  2. Write the words on this card and nowhere else. Not in a note app, not in a photo, not in a password manager “just in case”. A copy you keep is a wallet you can still empty.
  3. Prove the wallet before you fund it. The machine writes a watch-only file of public keys to the stick; open it in a coordinator – Sparrow, Blockstream Green – and check that the master fingerprint and the first address it shows are the ones the machine showed you. That is the whole verification: it proves the addresses you are about to send to belong to the words on the card.
  4. Fund the first receive address (the one beginning bc1q), with a small test amount first if the gift is significant, and confirm it arrives before sending the rest.
  5. Fill in the fingerprint, the amount and the date on the inside panel, so the receiver can tell they opened the right wallet.
  6. Hand it over closed and say the one sentence that matters: move it into your own wallet soon, and never type these words into a web page. The back of the card carries a QR to the page that explains both ways of doing that.
Occasion
2. Recovery Words (13–24)
13. 17. 21.
14. 18. 22.
15. 19. 23.
16. 20. 24.
Passphrase NONE  /  
A gift is easier with no passphrase, and that is the safe default. If you used one it has to be written here too, exactly as typed – the words alone would open a different, empty wallet and nothing would say so.
⚠️ FOR THE GIVER: write the words only here, keep no copy, and hand the card over closed. For the receiver: move the coins to a wallet of your own soon – see the back of the card.
1. Recovery Words (1–12)
1. 5. 9.
2. 6. 10.
3. 7. 11.
4. 8. 12.
How many words 12  24 Fingerprint
Amount Funded on
Circle the count and leave the rest of the lines empty. Addresses begin bc1q (Native SegWit, m/84'/0'/0') unless noted; the fingerprint is the eight characters the wallet showed when it was made, so the receiver can check they opened the right one.
⛔ THESE WORDS ARE THE MONEY: whoever reads them can spend it. Type them only into a wallet app you installed yourself, or into an offline signer – never into a web page that asks for them.
● A gift of bitcoin ●
Happy Birthday!
Congratulations!
A Gift For You
Many happy returns – and a little something that is yours alone
On your wedding day – something to keep, together
Real bitcoin, held by nobody but you
₿
₿
₿
To From
Note
Amount Date
Inside this card, hand-written, are the words that open a Bitcoin wallet. They are the money itself – keep the card closed, and read the back before you do anything else.
How to use your gift
The words inside are the wallet. Whoever made this card wrote them by hand, so treat it like cash and move the money into a wallet of your own soon.

Into your own wallet quick, on a phone

Install a well-known wallet from its official app store (BlueWallet is a common first one), choose import and type the words in order. The balance appears. Then make a fresh wallet, write down its words yourself, and send everything to it.

Into money you can spend via an exchange

Open an account at an exchange serving your country and finish its identity checks. Copy your bitcoin deposit address, send the coins there, then sell for your local currency and withdraw to your bank. Fees can eat a small gift, so check them first.
Both routes, step by step signeros.github.io/signeros/redeem_gift.html Also the slower, fully offline way, where the words never touch a computer that can go online.