By the way:
This week i was up for a visit to the bank. A bank of which i am not a customer of.
As i don't really want to keep my seeds and (future) paper wallets at home, i asked for the price of a safe and if the contents are insured an all.
Mr. bankster asked me about the value and physical size of the entities i plan to put in there, so i said it would be foldable paper and a handful of items of the size of a matchbox. When he asked me for the value, which determines price and insurance, i said it is volatile in value and it might be anything between x1 (by current btc price) and x100 or even more in the next 30-50 years. So Mr. bankster said he has to contact his boss, who is the local manager of the safe, who in turn should call me on the same afternoon for speaking about details and possibilities.
I never heard of them again, no call from either of the two.
Well, this leaves me with the impression that safes seem to be a pain in the ass for banks (or this bank only, idk).
I found it quite unfair to base the price to rent a safe on the value of the content. Insurance, yes, that didn't surprise me that much. Seems like they out the amount which was estimated the value of the safe contents for. I can't just pay only for the safe and insurance covers the value of all that's in it, in case of physical desctruction, theft and loss.
Trying to get useful service from a notary will be coming next. I'll keep you updated.
Bad luck, i cut my index finger today with a mitre saw, because of plain stupidity. I teared off the protection cover of the blade, because i damaged it with a piece of copper sheet that slipped and hit the lifting mechanics of the protector, so it became stuck. After the very next cut, when the blade was still rotating powerless, i made a stupid move and my index finger got hit by a few sawteeth. When the shock kicked in two minutes later, i had to sit down on the floor and almost had to vomit.
It's still slightly bleeding after hours and correct surgery, so my visit to the notary could take a little while and i'll cut down on typing for some days.
1st) the person who you spoke with at the bank who is checking with the manager might not be getting back to you because they are still looking into the matter, to the extent that they understand the question.
2nd) I find real problems with your attempt to get a bank involved to insure bitcoins that you safeguard in a safety deposit box or whatever you are doing with that.
I doubt that they even need to know what you have in your safety deposit box and the value of it (especially when it comes to the bitcoin aspect of it, because the bitcoins [eg keys] should not be only in one place, anyhow). Furthermore, hopefully you are storing one back up or one aspect of your bitcoins in such safety box rather than your ONLY ability to access it. Don't get me wrong, I am not against the idea of having either a back up or part of a key in a safety deposit box, but I see no reason to either tell the fucktwat bank managers about the contents of your box or the significance of it, or to attempt to insure such contents, but that does not mean that you should not be taking measures to ensure your coins in various kinds of means, whether it is using back ups or multi-sig or some variation of those kinds of security measures. Of course, passing on your estate and considerations like that will likely involve instructions to second and or third parties that may or may not know their instructions until after your passing (if that were to happen.. or should I say when it happens and if you have bitcoin at the time?).
back on, these things always seem to take longer than you think
What country makrospex?
Never, ever, trust a bank "safe" deposit in the US, the banks raid them on the regular.
Additionally: What jo-squared said.
[edited out]
No need for a safe. With Bitcoin,
you are the bank! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Get a Trezor or Ledger.
2. Initialize it and write down the recovery seed.
3. Use an additional passphrase and keep it in your head (don't write it down).
4. Transfer your coins to that wallet (seed + passphrase).
5. Store the seed (but not the passphrase) in 3-4 separate places.
6. Done! Your coins are more secure than any vault in Zürich.
That's the beauty of Bitcoin. Being non-physical has its perks!
Now, try to do this with gold or silver...
Agreed about everything you said, AlcoHoDL, except there might be some need to write down the additional pass phrase for a few reasons 1) in case you get brain trama or otherwise detained, 2) to pass down to heirs and 3) possibly other related reasons