Bitcoin estate planning from an attorney who mines, builds, and actually understands the technology — not just the law.
Research estimates that 11–18% of all Bitcoin in existence is permanently lost. At current prices, that’s roughly $150–270 billion in unrecoverable wealth — primarily due to lost private keys, death without proper planning, and technical complexity for heirs.
Traditional estate planning attorneys add a paragraph about digital assets and hope for the best. That paragraph is useless if nobody can find the private keys, if the executor doesn’t know what a hardware wallet is, or if the seed phrase was written on a Post-It note that got thrown away.
Your attorney drafted the trust but never examined how your Bitcoin is actually stored. Nobody has identified the single points of failure in your setup.
Your spouse doesn’t know what a Ledger is. Your kids don’t know where the seed phrase is. Your executor has never heard of a block explorer.
There are no step-by-step instructions for a non-technical person to verify holdings, secure devices, or transfer Bitcoin to beneficiaries without making an irreversible mistake.
Most attorneys who advertise Bitcoin estate planning are traditional estate planners who added a cryptocurrency page to their website. They understand trusts and wills. They don’t understand UTXOs, multisig, Shamir’s Secret Sharing, hardware wallet recovery, or the difference between a custodial exchange account and self-custody cold storage.
Licensed California attorney. Active litigator. Drafts the trust provisions, digital asset memoranda, powers of attorney, and executor instructions.
Solo Bitcoin miner and node operator. Understands custody architectures, multisig, Shamir’s Secret Sharing, hardware wallet recovery, and on-chain verification at the protocol level.
Reviews your actual setup — wallet types, seed phrase storage, backup methods, exchange accounts — and identifies every single point of failure before it matters.
Plain-English education for non-technical family members. Your spouse and kids learn exactly what to do (and what not to do) in a guided session with the attorney.
Whether you want to handle it yourself, work directly with an attorney, or get help for your own clients — there’s a path.
A downloadable package that walks you through creating a complete Bitcoin inheritance plan. Six documents covering everything from custody audit to tax treatment for heirs.
Professional Pack adds editable DOCX source files + 30-minute consultation credit.
Direct consultation for Bitcoin holders who want professional guidance. Conducted entirely remote via screen share — no geographic limitation for the advisory portion.
⚡ Accepts Bitcoin via Lightning
For attorneys who have clients with Bitcoin and need help. CLE course, template pack, and co-counsel availability.
Most attorneys offering Bitcoin estate planning learned about cryptocurrency from a webinar. They can draft the legal documents. They can’t audit your custody architecture, identify that your 2-of-3 multisig has a key-holder single point of failure, or explain to your executor how to use a Coldcard.
Asaf Fulks is a California-licensed attorney and active litigator who also solo mines Bitcoin, runs a full node, and builds software. He holds a J.D. magna cum laude, a B.A. in Computer Science, and has over 20 years of technology industry experience. He didn’t add “cryptocurrency” to his practice areas because it’s trending. He lives this technology every day.
That combination — attorney who can draft the documents and technologist who can audit the custody setup — essentially doesn’t exist in the market.
No. Never. Not to anyone. The consultation reviews your custody architecture — how your keys are stored, where backups exist, who has access. You never share the keys themselves.
The advisory and custody audit portions are not geographically restricted. For legal document drafting, the applicable jurisdiction determines which state’s law governs, and appropriate disclosures will be provided.
Exchanges have their own inheritance procedures, but you still need proper legal documentation — a digital asset memorandum, executor instructions, and account access information stored securely and referenced in your estate plan.
Yes. Tier 2 consultations can coordinate with your current attorney, and Tier 3 offers co-counsel availability — your attorney keeps the client relationship while Asaf handles the Bitcoin-specific work.
Casa and Unchained are custody products with inheritance features. They’re excellent tools. But they don’t draft legal documents, audit your overall estate plan, or educate your heirs. This service combines the legal and technical sides that custody products don’t cover.
In-depth articles on the technical and legal issues that matter most. Regularly updated.
The question every Bitcoin holder avoids — and why the answer depends entirely on how you plan today.
Read Article → Legal AnalysisThe most common advice from estate attorneys — and why it fails when applied to self-custodied Bitcoin.
Read Article → TechnicalHow multi-signature custody architectures solve the single-point-of-failure problem in Bitcoin inheritance.
Read Article → PracticalA step-by-step guide for executors who suddenly need to secure, verify, and transfer digital assets.
Read Article →Every day you wait is another day your family is one hardware failure, one accident, or one forgotten password away from losing everything. The planning takes hours. The loss is permanent.
Consultations conducted remotely via secure video. Payments processed via Stripe or Bitcoin Lightning (asaf@ocrecording.com).