Re: Dead man's switch

Quote from: Pmalek on November 15, 2018, 03:11:22 PM

A dead man's switch could be activated in the case that your friend doesn't log in to his computer and enters a password or code every 10 days for example. The moment he stops doing that someone else can receive access to his accounts.

Google has what is called Inactive Account Manager, maybe that could help.
https://myaccount.google.com/inactive?pli=1

Another possibility is that your friend creates emails for the future. The site https://www.futureme.org/ allows you to write an email that will be sent at a specific date in the future. There is a similar service here - http://whensend.com/

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5s5dzz/dead_mans_switch_for_hodlers/

Im not convinced on that method. The computer that you are using to log in could break, either due a software or hardware error, due being stolen, due a fire happening or other accidents... then what, it takes more than 10 days to recover and the coins are moved and you are still alive.

The only way to guarantee coins move when you are dead is implanting yourself some sort of heart rate monitoring chip which sends the coins when it goes to 0... of course this is absolutely insane.

So far I would focus on not dying, if I had bitcoins, I wouldn't trust what happened to them if I died, so don't die is the best solution right now.