Advanced Planning

Succession

Most Bitcoin is lost, not stolen. 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.

The Problem

A Will Does Not Move Bitcoin

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.

Who This Is For

Three Situations

Tuition is not a prerequisite. Some clients arrive already confident in their own holdings and needing only the plan that outlives them.

The Sole Holder

You understand your setup completely. Nobody else does. If something happened tomorrow, your family would inherit an asset they cannot reach.

The Household

More than one person needs access, but sharing keys casually creates as much risk as it removes. The arrangement needs designing, not improvising.

The Estate

Meaningful holdings, professional advisers already in place, and a gap none of them can close. We work alongside your solicitor and accountant.

The Work

What Succession Covers

Custody Architecture

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.

Documented Recovery

Written instructions your successors can follow without you. Plain language, no assumed knowledge, and no reliance on anything held only in your head.

Rehearsed, Not Described

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.

Inheritance Coordination

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.

Key-Person Risk Removed

The arrangement stops depending on one person’s memory, one device, one location or one relationship remaining intact.

Household Briefing

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.

Written Record

A complete, secured document set covering the architecture, the recovery procedure and the reasoning — reviewable by your advisers.

Periodic Review

Standards change, devices age and households change shape. Succession clients are offered a scheduled review so the plan does not quietly expire.

How It Runs

Four Stages

Stage 01

Assessment

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.

Stage 02

Design

An architecture proposed and explained in full, built around your household rather than a template. Nothing is implemented until you understand it.

Stage 03

Implementation

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.

Stage 04

Handover

You receive the complete written record, shareable with your solicitor and accountant. A review is scheduled to keep the plan current.

Boundaries

What This Is Not

  • We do not draft wills, trusts or any legal instrument. Your solicitor does that, and we work alongside them.
  • We do not provide tax or estate-planning advice. Where the work touches either, we say so and refer.
  • We do not take custody of assets, hold keys on your behalf, or retain access to anything we help you build.
  • We do not advise on what to hold, how much, or whether to hold it at all. Those decisions remain yours.

Households often reach Succession through The Edge, having discovered during tuition how much of the arrangement rests on one person. It is not a prerequisite.

Alderlux provides education and technical planning services only. Nothing on this page is investment advice, legal advice, tax advice or a personal recommendation. Alderlux does not draft legal instruments and does not provide estate or tax planning advice — independent professional advice should be sought where appropriate. Digital assets carry significant risk, including total loss of capital. Alderlux is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority and does not provide cryptoasset custody, dealing or arranging services.