How do you plan to introduce your children to Bitcoin? More importantly what is your long term plan for passing down the wealth to the next gen?
There are plenty of instructions on how to familiarize yourself with bitcoin on the Internet. It is not enough to simply pass on wealth to subsequent generations. It is necessary to teach them how to manage their inheritance prudently, otherwise they will not have enough money if they get carried away, for example, by gambling.
Do you plan to make them their own cold storage wallets and start depositing coins onto this instead of say finding a college savings account etc? Or have a diverse mix in many of these baskets?
You can simply transmit seed phrases from your wallets. You won’t take this with you to the next world, right. Diversification will never be superfluous and therefore, part of the savings can be left in traditional forms of assets.
I keep thinking about setting them up for success but I am much too early right now my kids are very young and they wouldn’t begin to even understand Bitcoin for quite a while.
They will have to come to success themselves, because you can only prepare them by investing useful skills and knowledge.
Sometimes I feel that I am doing them a disservice by contributing to a 529 savings plan as opposed to their own Bitcoin storage accounts.
What's stopping you from switching to bitcoin?
Perhaps I should open their own Roth IRA accounts and just contribute to that account and direct the funding to a Bitcoin ETF so I can ensure that they will have had early exposure to Bitcoin and ensure that they all have their own accounts. Sure it’s not the same as pure Bitcoin it’s paper Bitcoin but at least the exposure is there.
It’s strange to hear this from a user who knows how to distinguish pure bitcoin from dubious surrogates.
I still think that passing down the wealth for your heirs with crypto will prove to be very problematic. It’s surely something that could be unevenly distributed & deviated from the wishes of the will since there are no real safeguards in place to ensure each child / beneficiary gets what has been set aside for them, right? I think this will be more of a long term solution that will come down the line, the real issue here is that having such safeguards in place could very well compromise the intent of Bitcoin in the first place. These answers I believe would be achieved through custodial methods, or how else could one achieve this goal??
And what are the guarantees that if you turn to the services of custodial methods, that each child
gets what has been set aside for them? Just assurances from the service provider and a piece of paper about it?