i don’t like talking about this in public due to the safety risk, but it’s also very easy in the united stages. you just need paper pen, white out and a fax machine. most death certificates are easily available online. perhaps i restored some of your faith in humanity. Deading someone isn’t more common

Most jurisdictions (US and otherwise) have moved to Electronic Death Registration Systems. There was a fun Defcon talk about "killing" people with them a few years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs

And apparently a big problem if someone fat fingers your SSN and kills you by accident. Most systems aren’t design to unkill you to correct the mistake.

It’s easy I agree but not that easy. When my grand mother passed away at home in India we took her to the hospital and they said she was brought dead and they cannot issue a death certificate. Then we had to find some doctor in the neighborhood who was willing to issue one. Now he only agreed to issue after making sure that he she was actually dead. I suspect getting a fake death certificate would not not be this easy.

Are you trying to be dramatic just for the sake of it? Because finding a public toilet (aka sulabh shauchalaya) is not difficult AT ALL.

Source: I've lived in 7 cities in India all my life.

That's the joke: it's super easy to fake a death certificate in India.

Thanks for the clarification. English not being my first language, I find it difficult to catch jokes if they're worded that way.

As a native English speaker it still is ambiguous to me

In a country of over a billion people, I imagine that finding a public toilet is not that easy.

You imagine and I've experienced it. Wonder who has a better idea...

Yeah and imagine that faking a death certificate is even easier than that. That would make it a pretty effective metaphor for how easy it is.

Can you easily buy a new identity and passport though?

I guess with $200 million untraceable money you can afford to buy an identity of a dead Indian.

I would think since every transaction is recorded on the blockchain, and he is the only one with the keys, any activity involving those BTC would raise a red flag.

But suppose that some time from now someone moves all that BTC into a different cryptocurrency, potentially via automated services like shapeshift.

What happens? How do people punish him?

Death certificate is issued by local authorities, so easier to bribe. But valid Passport will be hard to get.

That could have been obtained before the "death", anywhere in the world. (and forged entry stamps could also be obtained)

wait. so is that easy or hard?