So I obviously hope I never have to deal with the first of these two issues I have but what if Gaven Andresen dies off and doesnt pass on the alert/control features that Satoshi bestowed to him, would community have to legit hard fork to even stay in the realm of new development not sure how that works as Im not a dev at all, hence my question. Not sure how the BIPs are actually approved or implemented and ATM believing is all basically comes down to getting Gavins ultimate approvi. Which like I said I worry may at some point ultimately be a issue.
Another thing Ive wondered since getting into BTC is what happens when all BTC are mined, people hodl, and people die? Is there any contingency in place or being planned to recover stale or dead bitcoins in wallets that are OBVIOUSLY non active addresses? Or will everything that is owned by dead investors or give up investors be doomed to simply be a burn loss?...
About the dead part it is our responsibility to let others know our keys because this is the only thing how you will pass on your coins to somebody. There is always a possibility to create transactions and lock it with specific time. So you give to your spouse, kids, brother, sister or anybody else this transaction in this format that you are giving your bitcoins to them on that day. Of you happen to be alive you can simply transfer new coins to another address and make such transaction again. This is really handy not to expose your private key.