Instructions your family can actually follow

Step-by-step instructions, written for the person who has to follow them.

I'm Claire, the non-technical one in our house. My husband holds our bitcoin in self-custody. For years he "explained it" and I nodded along. Then he wrote step-by-step instructions, and I followed them alone while he sat behind me, not allowed to help. Every place I got stuck, he rewrote in my words. It ended with me sending a small test payment myself and seeing it arrive.

This site is what we learned, written from my side of the table.

Start here: Bitcoin inheritance: make sure your family can reach itThe whole picture in one guide: the pieces your family needs, the documents, and the test most plans skip.

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Testing it with the person who would follow it

• Can my wife access my bitcoin? Find out this weekend
• Bitcoin inheritance checklist: the question most plans fail
• Crypto estate planning mistakes, and the one most make

The pieces of a setup

• Seed phrase inheritance: secret, findable, and usable
• Passphrase inheritance: how your family finds and uses it
• Hardware wallet inheritance: more than the device
• Multisig inheritance: more keys, more for her to find
• Self custody bitcoin inheritance: control now, access later

The documents

• Bitcoin letter of instruction: how to write one without putting secrets in it
• Bitcoin estate planning: the will says who, a guide says how
• How to leave crypto in your will, and make it reachable
• Bitcoin dead man switch: what it solves and what it doesn't
• Does Coinbase have beneficiary options? What happens instead

If someone you love has died

• What happens to bitcoin when you die, and who can reach it
• Can you inherit bitcoin? What to do if it happens to you

You won't find our names or faces here. We follow the same rule we'd give you: don't tell strangers you hold bitcoin, or where. That's also why we never ask what you hold.