Bitcoin does not need to be stolen to be lost. It is lost because one person held the keys and the arrangement did not survive them. Succession designs the structure that holds when the person who built it is no longer there.
A solicitor can leave your Bitcoin to your children. What a will cannot do is give them access to it. Bitcoin has no institution to write to, no account to reclaim, no process for proving you are the rightful heir. If the keys are gone, the asset is gone — and no court, executor or exchange can recover it.
This is a new category of risk, and it sits outside the professions that normally handle estates. Your solicitor drafts the instrument. Your accountant handles the liability. Neither is equipped to design custody that survives a death, and neither will tell you so.
Succession fills that gap. It is technical, procedural work — done once, properly, and documented so that the people who will need it can actually use it.
You do not need to become an expert, and you do not need access yourself. Three conditions are enough to move a family from exposed to protected, and they are easy to check.
Somebody other than the holder knows the asset exists, and roughly how significant it is.
At least one other person could actually reach it if the holder could not be asked — through instructions that are written down and physically findable, not memorised and not held only on a phone.
Discovering that instructions exist does not, by itself, hand somebody the money. The instructions, the asset and the will are kept apart.
All three, and the central failure mode has been addressed. Any one missing, and it hasn’t. That is the whole test, and you can run it in a single conversation.
If one of the three is missing, that is the gap to close. Where to begin depends on how the Bitcoin is held and who else is involved — which is what the assessment below establishes.
The test is set out in full, with how to raise the subject and the five facts worth establishing, in A Will Cannot Reach Bitcoin.
Tuition is not a prerequisite. Some clients arrive already confident in their own holdings and needing only the plan that outlives them.
You understand your setup completely. Nobody else does. If something happened tomorrow, your family would inherit an asset they cannot reach.
More than one person needs access, but sharing keys casually creates as much risk as it removes. The arrangement needs designing, not improvising.
Meaningful holdings, professional advisers already in place, and a gap none of them can close. We work alongside your solicitor and accountant.
A structure designed for continuity rather than convenience. Multisignature arrangements, distributed key holding, and the removal of any single point at which the whole thing fails.
Written instructions your successors can follow without you. Plain language, no assumed knowledge, and no reliance on anything held only in your head.
The plan is tested with the people who will need it, on the devices they will use. A recovery procedure nobody has practised is a document, not a plan.
Your solicitor drafts the will. We make sure the technical arrangement matches what the instrument says, so the two do not contradict each other when it matters.
The arrangement stops depending on one person’s memory, one device, one location or one relationship remaining intact.
The people who will need to act are shown how, and understand why the structure is built the way it is. Understanding is what makes a plan survive contact with a crisis.
A complete, secured document set covering the architecture, the recovery procedure and the reasoning — reviewable by your advisers.
Standards change, devices age and households change shape. Succession clients are offered a scheduled review so the plan does not quietly expire.
A private review of your existing arrangement — what you hold, how it is held, who else knows, and where it breaks if you are not there.
An architecture proposed and explained in full, built around your household rather than a template. Nothing is implemented until you understand it.
The structure is built with you, on your own devices, and documented as it is built. Your successors are briefed and the recovery is rehearsed.
You receive the complete written record, shareable with your solicitor and accountant. A review is scheduled to keep the plan current.
No two households are structured alike, and the work varies accordingly. Fees are agreed in writing after the assessment, before any work begins — never estimated on a call and revised later.
Succession can be taken on its own, or alongside any Edge tier. Tuition is not required.
Arrange A Private ConsultationSome households reach Succession through The Edge, having discovered during tuition how much of the arrangement rests on one person. It is not a prerequisite.
Twenty minutes, at no cost, no obligation on either side. We will establish how your holdings are currently arranged and where the gaps are — whether or not you go further with us.
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