How are people dealing with crypto/bitcoin inheritance?
Dead man's switch (or euphemistically, "Google Inactive Account Manager") that emails inheritee(s) with instructions for retrieving encrypted keys from a safe deposit box or other location, along with password for decryption and distribution allocation?
Just giving private keys directly to your lawyer, sealed in your will, or encrypted with some type of challenge that only inheritees would know?
There are a couple of cryptocurrency inheritance management startups: https://www.digipulse.io is up and running and
https://safehaven.io at the pre-ICO stage. Disclaimer: I haven't researched thoroughly so I can't comment on how secure etc. these are.
How have people always dealt with this? Wills and lawyers. Why is HN trying to (poorly) reinvent probate law? Yes, give the keys to your lawyer. Or, if you’re uncomfortable with that, open a safe deposit box and keep important documents there that your lawyer/family can access after you die.
Dead man's switch (or euphemistically, "Google Inactive Account Manager") that emails inheritee(s) with instructions for retrieving encrypted keys from a safe deposit box or other location, along with password for decryption and distribution allocation?
Just giving private keys directly to your lawyer, sealed in your will, or encrypted with some type of challenge that only inheritees would know?