Death and Crypto: How to Ensure Your Heirs Inherit Your Digital Wealth

Jeff Opdyke (Jeffo)
7 min readMay 30, 2023

In the end, we’re all dead … yet, our crypto lives on.

Question is: Will it remain locked in your wallet forever, never to again see the generative pixel light of a digital day? Or will it go to your heirs — so they can complain about why didn’t sell the top when you were alive in the first place?

I’ve been contemplating this issue myself over the last year or so. My crypto wealth has reached a stage where it’s certainly bigger than a bread box, and if I died tomorrow the people I care…

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Jeff Opdyke (Jeffo)

Former Wall Street Journal writer living in Prague. Crypto and investing. Editor Global Intelligence Letter. Also on Substack: jeffoalpha.substack.com/