[jasdine817]

I just used a tool called BIP39 generator on and offline machine which you can feed entropy and it will generate a bitcoin private key. then sent funds to that address.

Then just keep those details safe.

[xvector]

I wouldn't do that, the tool RNG could be backdoored. Did you read the source and compile it?

[tonfa]

How do you handle giving access to your keys to your next of kin?

[Paradigma11]

And how do you prevent access for your next of kin if there is a breakup/fallout?

[puranjay]

Important question - I hope OP can answer.

Too many people I know haven’t instructed their dependents how to access their crypto.

[rand49an]

Just let them know where those details are and how to access them if they need to.

[whoisjohnkid]

you can use multi sig wallets. Which are synonymous to Shamir’s Secret Sharing Algo; tldr you can generate say 5 keys and you need 3 of the 5 to unlock.

As for if you die … you could use one of those services that will send an email out to your significant others if you don’t log in for X amount of time.

[lmm]

> As for if you die … you could use one of those services that will send an email out to your significant others if you don’t log in for X amount of time.

And put your bitcoin private key in there? Surely whoever runs those services would take all your money.

[whoisjohnkid]

If you use multiple services each with a piece of Shamir’s secret you are more protected. You can get more sophisticated with this if you want e.g each piece can be xored or encrypted with a value only that person would know e.g their birthday or their fav food.

Being your own secure bank isn’t a trivial task. Hopefully this can get easier in the future