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Re:One of the largest owners of Bitcoin, reportedly held ove... by cirrus3 on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:19PM (#27670045)
I really like the idea of that upcoming service. But, not exactly where you want to store a piece of information worth $2B. A good old fashioned safety deposit box in a Swiss bank or something and several layers of trustees would be more applicable in this case.
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Re:One of the largest owners of Bitcoin, reportedly held ove... by zucker42 on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:23PM (#27670081)
I would use Shamir's Secret Sharing and split it up over multiple different physical and/or digital locations.
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Re:One of the largest owners of Bitcoin, reportedly held ove... by paxys on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:30PM (#27670148)
It isn't that much different from adding a beneficiary for your online brokerage account.
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