I want to give some BCH to my friend to get him started in crypto. I am looking for a way I can easily just send something to him, that would provide perhaps a step by step for him to download a wallet and claim the coin that I have sent him. Does this exist? Thank you
Posted Oct 29, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC
Gift.Bitcoin.com is a great resource for this!
others have mentioned gifts.bitcoin.com , i haven't used it myself.
but as an aside, for a new user it is IMHO infinitely easier to install a bitcoin.com wallet app and have you send them BCH and they can send it back.
I have been using bitcoin since 2016 and I would have to google it to figure out how to sweep a paper-wallet into a phone wallet.
Also if you give them a paper wallet, make a copy for yourself - if your friend loses interest and throws away your BCH - you could always take it back after a year or some other timeline.
If your friend is on reddit (or twitter), tip a post/comment/tweet: u/chaintip
Create a wallet for them and give them the passphrase to it. Electron Cash makes it easy.
I used tips.bitcoin.com which was easier than gift.bitcoin.com but unfortunately is replaced by gift.com :/
coinbase send by email..
What I have always done is generate an address or a seed for someone. I tell them about it and store it in my secrets database.
If and when they are ready, I give them the private key or the seed. Sometimes this takes years but regardless I have it in my vault.
How about http://gifts.bitcoin.com/ ?