My Bitcoin Will

Your bitcoin is secure from thieves. Is it secure for your family? Helping self-custody holders ensure their loved ones can recover their bitcoin. 🇦🇺

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Most self-custody holders have secured their bitcoin from thieves. Most have not secured it for their family.

Find out where your plan falls short.

Take the free inheritance stress test 👇

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@Thebitcoinway_ Send me a spreadsheet of your assets and liabilities, and I'll consider sharing that with you

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If you've been wondering how best to secure your bitcoin and ensure your loved ones can actually access it when you're gone, here's an article with 2 possibilities

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The most dangerous phrase in Bitcoin inheritance is "they'll figure it out."

Your executor will not figure out your derivation path, your passphrase, or which of your three hardware wallets actually holds the funds. Not in grief fog.

Book a call, I'll help you write it down properly: https://t.co/PG0zbWxd3o

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Self custody culture teaches you to set up your wallet once and never touch it again. That's decent security advice. It's terrible estate planning advice.

Every device, every company, has a lifespan. Your plan has to outlast all of them.

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Quick test. If the company behind your hardware wallet vanished tomorrow, no support line, no firmware updates, could your executor still recover your bitcoin?

If you hesitated, that's the gap. Find it before someone else does: https://t.co/ke922lGwHy

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Does your will name a specific device, or does it explain a process?

Say it out loud. If the answer is "my Coldcard" or "my Ledger," that's not a plan, that's a device that happens to still be working today.

Let's fix that: https://t.co/ANvFVE73PQ

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5/ Neither setup is the point. The point is you chose it deliberately, you know how it fails, and someone else knows how to use it without you.

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1/ Post Coldcard, here are the two Bitcoin self custody setups I'd actually stand behind for inheritance. Not theory. What I run.

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4/ Setup two. Single sig with a proper passphrase. Roll your own dice, over a hundred times, generate the seed yourself, then add a long passphrase, twelve to forty plus characters, stored separately from the seed.

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You cannot optimise for the five dollar wrench attack and instant recoverability at the same time. Every setup is a trade off between the two.

Most people have never consciously chosen which side they're on. Find out which one your setup actually protects: https://t.co/JLWJ4NBoP9

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@BlockstreamJade The only HWW on my list to test

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A seed phrase is not a will. It doesn't name an executor. It doesn't survive a dispute. It doesn't tell your family what to do, only what they'd need if they already knew everything else.

Most people find that out too late. Let's find out now: https://t.co/ANvFVE73PQ

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Confession. I ran Coldcard only, for years, across my entire multisig. No vendor diversification.

I told myself that was discipline. Turns out it was just concentration risk wearing a nicer outfit.

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Every Bitcoin inheritance plan has a single point of failure somewhere. Coldcard just showed everyone what it looks like when that point gets found.

Do you know where yours is? Free stress test, ten minutes, no fluff: https://t.co/ke922lGwHy

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Your kids can inherit the house. They can inherit the car. They cannot inherit a seed phrase nobody told them existed.

A will that doesn't name a process for your bitcoin isn't an estate plan, it's a guess.

Book a free diagnostic call and I'll show you the gap: https://t.co/PG0zbWxd3o

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5/ Feeling secure and being secure are not the same thing. Diversify how you generate entropy. Don't let one manufacturer's RNG be the only thing standing between your family and everything you built.

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1/ A hardware wallet has exactly one job. Turn something unpredictable, a dial spin, a mouse wobble, a sensor reading, into a seed phrase nobody else could ever guess.

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4/ Here's the part that matters for inheritance. If your family's entire claim to your bitcoin rests on a seed phrase, and that seed phrase came from a device with weak entropy, your plan was never secure. It just felt secure.