The hardest cases I see at walletrecovery.info are not the hacks. They are the families. Someone dies holding Bitcoin, the family knows it existed because they saw the screenshots, and everything after that is a search: through drawers, through old laptops, through password managers nobody has the master key to. Sometimes there is enough to work with. Often there is not, and the coins simply stay where they are forever.
Every one of those cases was preventable with an afternoon of work while the owner was alive. That afternoon is what this service is.
Who this is for
Anyone who holds enough Bitcoin that its disappearance would matter to the people they leave behind. In practice that is three groups: people who have quietly accumulated for years and never told their family the details, people whose estate attorney has just asked a question about crypto that neither of them can answer, and people who have recently had a health scare and realised the plan is entirely in their own head.
It is also for the other side of that: an heir or a spouse who knows the crypto exists, cannot get a straight answer about what happens next, and wants someone technical in the room for the conversation.
What we do
Inventory what actually exists. Not balances, but locations and mechanisms: which wallets, which devices, which exchanges, which passphrases, which of it is genuinely self-custodied and which of it is an account someone else controls. Most people have more surface than they remember, and the forgotten 2017 exchange account is a real category of loss.
Decide who needs to be able to do what. A spouse who should be able to reach it immediately is a different design from three adult children who should reach it jointly, which is different again from a professional executor who should be able to hand it to beneficiaries but never spend it.
Design the split. This is the technical core. Depending on the situation that is a passphrase held separately from a seed, a Shamir split across people or locations, a multisig arrangement where a lawyer or a second family member holds one key, or a sealed letter in the right place. The rule is the same in every version: nothing any single living person holds should be enough to spend on its own, and the pieces must be reachable by the right people at the right time.
Write the instructions letter. A plain-language document that assumes the reader knows nothing about Bitcoin, has just lost you, and is doing this under stress. What the coins are, where the pieces are, who to call, what to do first, and explicitly what not to do, including what to do about the people who will appear offering to help.
Walk the executor through it, with them on the call. A procedure nobody has ever read is not a procedure. Where the family is willing, we do a dry run: the person who will actually have to do this attempts the recovery path on a test wallet while you are there to answer questions.
Coordinate with your attorney. I will speak directly to your estate lawyer about how to reference the crypto in the will without putting recoverable secrets into a document that becomes public record in probate.
What you leave with
An instructions letter your heirs can actually follow. A key arrangement that gives nobody premature access and gives the right people eventual access. Confirmation, from a dry run rather than an assumption, that the recovery path works. And your attorney holding a will that references the arrangement correctly.
What this is not
This is not legal advice and I am not an attorney. I do not draft wills, trusts, or beneficiary designations, and this service works alongside your estate lawyer rather than in place of one.
This is not tax advice. How the estate is taxed is a question for your accountant.
This is not custody. I do not hold a key, a share, a seed, or a copy of anything in your plan. If a design would leave me as a party to your inheritance, I will tell you to pick someone else.
And it is not recovery. If the death has already happened and the keys are gone, this page is the wrong one and walletrecovery.info/crypto-estate-recovery is the right one.
Questions I get about this
Does this mean giving my heirs access to my Bitcoin now?
No, and that is the whole design problem. The point is a plan that gives them nothing today and everything at the right moment. That usually means splitting what is needed to recover across people or places, so that no single person holds a workable key while you are alive but the pieces come together afterwards.
Do I need a lawyer as well?
Yes, and I am not one. I do not draft wills or trusts and I do not give legal advice. What I do is produce the technical half your attorney cannot: a recovery procedure that actually works, written in language a non-technical executor can follow, and stored in a way that does not put the coins in the will itself.
Why not just put the seed phrase in the safe deposit box and be done?
Because a bank box is a single point of failure, it is sealed at exactly the moment your estate needs it, and it means anyone with access to that box has your coins today. It can be part of a plan. It is a bad plan on its own, and I will show you what it fails against.