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@ Trainer Dan
2025-05-28 12:02:24
🧔♂️ A Dad’s Real Plan: How I Made Sure My Family Can Access Our Bitcoin — Without the State Ever Knowing
I’m just a dad. Not a guru. Not a tech bro. Just a man who loves his family, distrusts the state, and believes in Bitcoin.
I worked hard for what I’ve saved. I want it to benefit my wife and kid, not the IRS, not some court probate clerk, and definitely not the parasites who print dollars and call it policy.
But I had one nagging question:
“What happens to my Bitcoin if I die or disappear?”
If you’ve asked that, you’re not paranoid… you’re awake.
Here’s what I did.
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🔐 The Vault: 2-of-3 Multisig
I set up a multi-signature wallet that requires 2 out of 3 keys to unlock the funds.
Why 2-of-3?
• Secure: One key alone does nothing
• Redundant: Any one key can be lost without locking out the others
• Private: No custodian, no lawyer, no platform in the loop
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🧩 Who Holds the Keys?
I chose three locations — each with a single role.
1. Key One — Me. Stored offline on a hardware wallet, never exposed.
2. Key Two — A sealed envelope held by someone I trust implicitly, but who’s outside my family and financial life. They don’t even know what they’re holding.
3. Key Three — A backup package in a fireproof safe with only one instruction:
“Open this if I die or disappear. Do not open otherwise.”
That envelope includes:
• Basic Bitcoin instructions
• Where to find the keys
• How to combine them to access the funds
It’s readable even for a total beginner.
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❌ No Lawyers. No Wills. No Trail.
I made no mention of Bitcoin in my will, trust, or financial documents.
I did not involve any institution, legal service, or accountant.
There is no metadata, cloud backup, or contact record.
Why?
Because Bitcoin is a bearer asset. Whoever has the keys, has the money.
That’s the point.
I trust my family to act in love — not to get taxed by bureaucrats who never earned a satoshi of it.
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🛡️ What Happens if I’m Gone?
If I die, my wife has the instructions. She’ll combine her envelope with one other and access the vault.
• No probate
• No tax forms
• No “cost basis”
• No letters from the IRS
She doesn’t need to know how multisig works. She just follows the simple guide.
And the best part?
Nobody can touch it while I’m alive — not even her.
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🧽 Clean BTC = No Traces
Before setting this up, I ran all my coins through Whirlpool using Samourai Wallet.
That broke the link between:
• My real-world identity
• The KYC exchange where I bought the BTC
• The cold storage wallet where it now lives
There is no longer a direct path for anyone — not the state, not a hacker, not even a blockchain analyst — to tie these sats to me.
They are now financially sovereign, just like I intended.
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❤️ Final Thought
This isn’t about hiding money.
It’s about protecting my family from a system that doesn’t care about them and will try to steal from them the moment I’m gone.
Bitcoin gives us the tools to pass on wealth with dignity, privacy, and zero counterparty risk.
So I used them.
You should too.
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