I'm working on building out some inheritance concepts that benefit from a thousand years of legal jurisprudence that can help pass bitcoin from generation to generation without complicated technical structures/platforms that can be legislated away more readily and which otherwise expose your holdings to surveillance. In other words, for a thousand years it was none of the governments business what property exchanged hands so long as you paid your appropriate taxes and, importantly, expressed no interest in illegally avoiding taxation after death.

I love companies like Unchained, etc., but the value of your holdings are subject to government surveillance (and potentially seizure) where as if you can house components of your keys with trusted lawyers, under the appropriate circumstances that lawyer is not subject to subpoena due to the attorney-client privilege so long as the privilege isn't being used in furtherance of a crime.

This is a complicate thing I've been working through for a while now but in sum, if you aren't presently committing a crime and do not intend to facilitate a crime, then your holdings are none of the governments business and so you should be able to secure your secrets in a distributed fashion perhaps with a lawyer such that they are not surveillable and subject to pre-crime authoritarian nonsense.

work in progress.

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Interesting. Inheritance is an issue I've considered lately.

Add to that the issue of 6102 attacks which are very much on the table in my opinion. If you get a letter in the mail about all your KYC'd coins that says sell them to us for cheap or go to prison, that's going to be a hard day for anyone even those who think today they would just ignore it or run or whatever.

I don't think a 6102 is as viable today as people claim, but it is still a concern. I'll flush every sat before I give it to the government though.

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BUT... I'd rather not. Lol

Id also rather not.

Honestly, I've come to the conclusion that it's more viable because the ownership is so much more heavily surveilled today than gold was then and communication is so much easier. They may not enforce the law broadly, but most people will just comply upon notice out of fear.

You might be interested in our inheritance solution, using on-chain timelocks: https://nunchuk.io/blog/autonomous-inheritance

Maybe we should discuss collaboration. This article understandably keeps things a little vague but my primary goal is to ensure tha people’s secrets are protected from disclosure. At a minimum I want to know more about how you accomplish this service leaving recovery completely autonomous and agnostic to your continued existence.