Bitkey did not make clear to use the inheritance feature you need to buy two bitkeys. This makes it both double the cost and much less noob friendly imo. Still a great start but a downside that should’ve been made much clearer. https://support.bitkey.world/hc/en-us/articles/32959918821012-I-have-been-invited-to-become-a-beneficiary-what-do-I-do
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I mean YOU don't have to buy 2. Your inheritor needs to get the other one. If they're serious about that they'll spend $150.
I suspect my situation where potential inheritors are not into bitcoin and really don’t want to deal with extra hardware is not uncommon.
As part of the inheritance protocol, your beneficiary must store a decryption key to access an encrypted version of your mobile key stored by Block. They need their own Bitkey wallet (app + hardware) to securely store this information long-term and benefit from our recovery protections. Ultimately this is a safety-focused choice in our design - storing keys long-term is hard, and this protocol is based on your beneficiary having a key, not on their government ID or anything like that. And I’ll look into where we might be able to clarify this more/earlier.
Yeah it’s an incredibly hard problem for which there are no easy answers. Just my experience was this was unexpected, and was a nonstarter for the beneficiary. They’re not into bitcoin and don’t want to have to store a physical device and are scared they’d lose it.