The Digital Heir
Practical notes about digital inheritance, encrypted recovery, secure access, and protecting sensitive information for the people who may need it later.
Apple and Google can preserve selected account data, but they control what is released, when the process begins, and which conditions must be satisfied. A complete digital inheritance plan needs another layer.
Read more →Your keys, your coins sounds simple while you are alive. But inheritance turns self-custody into a harder question: who gets the path when you are no longer here?
Read more →Digital inheritance is no longer only about passwords and crypto wallets. As AI agents begin to act on our behalf, access to the agents themselves may become part of the estate.
Read more →A seed phrase kept offline may be safe from hackers, but still vulnerable to water, fire, corrosion, accidental loss, and the simple fact that nobody else knows what it means.
Read more →Not your keys, not your coins is only half the story. If nobody can inherit the keys when you are gone, self-custody can become another way to lose everything.
Read more →Many crypto holders protect their wallets from hackers, but forget the bigger question: what happens if they are no longer here to unlock them?
Read more →Apple Legacy Contact lets someone request access to parts of your Apple Account after your death. But it depends on legal proof, Apple’s rules, and partial access — not your own flexible release conditions.
Read more →Google’s Inactive Account Manager can notify trusted people or share selected data if your account becomes inactive. But it has limits, especially if account access is lost, stolen, or still being used by somebody else.
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