My friend is a financial advisor with 500 clients, and a book of business of $100,000,000.

I orange pilled him in 2016, and he’s been a Bitcoiner since 2018, he left the financial advisor business 2 years ago.

He’s at the point where he wants to help these 500 families get 1-5% of their net worth allocated to BTC.

Most of these families are asking him questions about Bitcoin already, and a lot of them are ready to buy BTC once he has the conversation with them.

The problem is that most of them are not ready to take custody of their own coins, they want him to help them acquire the BTC and hold it for him.

Are there any practical solutions for this where he can help onboard people to bitcoin without being “in custody” of their coins?

There are probably hundreds or thousands of RIAs in this position.

How can we help them onboard clients that trust them already, and make some money for their efforts, without taking on the liability of being custodians?

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That's awesome!

Multisig?

This is a market opportunity for Unchained, Sean, etc. provide a framework for RIAs to help their clients. Work out an equitable fee split. Rocket emoji moon emoji

*Swan

Get him to call Unchained Capital in Austin Texas and start from there.

They are collaborative custody specialists.

I agree, this.

Unchained comes to mind

https://unchained.com/

Swan has a platform that may help.

https://www.swanbitcoin.com/advisor/

Have them DM me.

OnRamp / unchained using multisig

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Isn’t unchained capital’s business model built to do something like this?

Some multisig setup seems to be the best option currently here. For example, 2 of 3, involving some third party, like Casa.

I am very keen to understand too if there is a good approach for this that is available today.

This is such an important area. I hope the collective wisdom here can help find the answer.

Feel like this is something unchained or river could implement. Unchained already has a financial services department but might be open to it? River doesn’t have anything of the sort, just a referral program that wouldn’t move the needle as a financial advisor.

Not that I’m aware of, but buying BTC IOUs exchange like Kraken is probably better than staying on zero. They should get their feet wet and learn along the way.

US or Canada?

Glad you asked, happy to help, I’ll hold their keys, sir.