Congratulations! You’re Thinking About Bitcoin Estate Planning
Presumably, you’ve stacked enough bitcoin to warrant a hard look at how you’re holding it and what will happen to your coins after you’re no longer here. This is good news! You are far enough down the rabbit hole that bitcoin estate planning is not only relevant but also extremely necessary. The not-as-good news is that the current state of bitcoin infrastructure hasn’t completely caught up to your estate planning needs.
Framework to Assess Bitcoin Allocation
If you read posts from laser-eyed bitcoiners on Twitter you will conclude that the only logical allocation is 100% bitcoin. Sit down with a slacks-and-blazer-wearing financial advisor and you will be barked at that owning any bitcoin beyond 0% is simply you giving into a beanie baby-like craze (maybe they will tell you to buy 1% of your portfolio simply so you will stop asking them about it). Ask your neighbor and they will regurgitate what they heard in the news, what they read on twitter, or what their slacks-and-blazer-wearing financial advisor told them. So, what is the correct answer?
SPOT BITCOIN ETF: WHAT IS IT & IS IT RIGHT FOR YOU?
In this article, we dig into the detail to cover several questions and comments that have been coming up. The goal is to arm you with a depth of resources that you can come back to and, ultimately, establish a framework that may help you assess whether a spot bitcoin ETF is right for you. The first section provides an overview of a regular ETF and a spot bitcoin ETF. The second section reviews the costs and risks for a bitcoin ETF and a bitcoin bought outright. The final section provides a decision tree.
Bitcoin Self Custody 101
The intention of this article is to explain what bitcoin self custody is, why you may consider self custodying your bitcoin, and the most critical items you should consider when implementing self custody.
Does Bitcoin Make Retirement Planning Obsolete?
For retirement planning with bitcoin, traditional methodologies face a paradigm shift due to the unique characteristics of the asset.
Bitcoin Is Not a Financial Plan…But It Should Be Part of It
Bitcoiners, consider the whole that the bitcoin piece fits into. Trad-fi community, take a close look at the puzzle piece that bitcoin is. When informed by a clear vision and with all the pieces on the table and being worked out and connected, that is when true financial planning is taking place and the full picture is able to be realized.