As for me, if I am no more alive, my family will take over my crypto assets because I have discussed that with my elder brother. I told him that I am into cryptocurrency investment, so if anything happens to me, my brother can get access to some of my crypto wallets but not all of them. He may not get access to the others because of where I hid some details about two wallets. He can't know it.i keep those ones for a specific purpose. First, I want to test his level of honesty. Once he passes that test, I will disclose the place where I hid the details of the two wallets. For now, all the crypto investments I discussed with him are only about my coins on the exchanges.

I believe they are people are into crypto investment but they have not revealed it to anyone. I would say that is a very bad idea because if anything happens especially death the money will just sit there doing nothing.In fact, I even heard a story of a guy who passed away. According to his friends, he was into Bitcoin investment and had invested a good amount of money. He had Bitcoin in his wallet but never disclosed it to his family. Only his friend knew about the investment, but the funny part is that even his friend didn’t have access to his wallets.I believe the guy money may have increased in value if it’s truly still there and probably it will continue sitting there forever, which means the money will be there for nothing.

You have a lovely family. There are families where both parties keep their finances secret because there is no trust. In such cases, the husband or wife could keep crypto assets secret.  But in your case, since both of you are open to each other, you could easily show yourselves where you kept your seed phrase.

As your children grow in age, you could also start exposing them to crypto because I have seen cases where both parents suddenly leave maybe by a fatal accident. Keep it up and send my greetings to your lovely husband.

We own our BTC and we should be the ones to decide what will happen to it after it's gone - so I agree with you, totally.

Better for that BTC to be used appropriately by somebody close to you to be lost forever as the rest of such coins.

That's a great vision of the situation you've got, and I hope everybody will have such a person to entrust after they are gone.

The ones closest to you are your family, by blood or not - there should be someone you can entrust with your funds, in such cases we described: situations are different, and not everyone would want to give their BTC to their genetical families directly.

I suppose that most people are completely unprepared for this, because human nature is such that it seems that life will go on forever and nothing foreshadows trouble. But if you look around, it turns out that you always need to prepare in advance for any scenario.

Therefore, should prepare a "will" with instructions and guidance on what your heirs should do after your death.

In the case of banks, not everything is so "colorful" in reality, because the heirs of the owners don't claim any rights to many deposits, because these owners didn't inform their relatives either. But in this case, the money doesn't "disappear", but passes into the use of the bank (after a certain period of time, if the heirs don't appear).

Well, I would say that this money was donated (burned) for the benefit of bitcoin. Or in other words, a part of the value of that money was indirectly "transferred" to each BTC-user.

When we carefully have a thought on these unprepared but inevitable events that are beyond our control it becomes a necessity to grant knowledge to a single family member, someone we can trust about certain important security details to our asset. It's just a risk we have to unavoidably take in avoidance of the risk of losing our assets forever in the case of sudden death or anything as close to death.

You know there is a difference between granting knowledge and being able to access your wallet. I don't see risk in giving my security prompts to a family member because it won't just be anyone, it has to be someone to trust, trust is to an extent but regardless there should someone who knows a lot about you and giving those Bitcoin security prompt isn't going to hurt. I prefer planning my will when my portfolio is holding a significant amount.

It will stay there forever I guess. Unless some family member inspects my PC and figures out to find my private keys and claim the coins, that’s going to be the case. The amount is not that big but not that small either. That’s actually a very serious topic if you are holding your life savings in btc. You at least need to inform either your wife/husband or mom/dad about it. Some people on the other hand don’t care at all. They think it won’t matter what happened to the coins when they are dead. I can understand their angle too. I don’t judge them but if you truly love a person, that person needs to know about it imo.