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Inheriting Crypto: How Your Heirs Actually Get Access, and Why the Seed Does Not Belong in a Will

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The German Federal Court of Justice made clear in 2018 that digital accounts are inherited like everything else. With self-custodied coins succession law still achieves nothing: no key, no access. And anyone who writes the seed into a will…

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Inheriting Crypto: How Your Heirs Actually Get Access, and Why the Seed Does Not Belong in a Will
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Inheriting Crypto: How Your Heirs Actually Get Access, and Why the Seed Does Not Belong in a Will

The German Federal Court of Justice made clear in 2018 that digital accounts are inherited like everything else. With self-custodied coins succession law still achieves nothing: no key, no access. And anyone who writes the seed into a will…