Why I Built OpenFirst - An Inheritance Plan My Family Can Actually Open
·9 min read
I wrote a private, offline inheritance plan in plain text files. It was secure, it was durable, and nobody enjoyed using it — including me. This is the story of how that folder of files became OpenFirst, and what building a product for exactly one user taught me about building for everyone.
The Bitcoin Inheritance Problem - Legal, Technical, and Human
·7 min read
Custody protects your Bitcoin while you’re alive. Inheritance planning protects it after you’re gone. This is how I think about the legal, technical, and very human problem of making sure the right people can actually recover what you built.
