We're releasing a new guide: Your Crypto Shouldn't Die With You — A Practical Guide to Protecting, Recovering, and Inheriting Digital Assets.
You can download the full PDF here.
Why This Guide Exists
Chainalysis estimates that roughly 3.7 million BTC — around 20% of the total supply — are effectively lost. Some belong to early adopters who threw away old laptops. But a growing share belongs to people who simply died without a plan.
The crypto industry has spent a decade perfecting ways to keep assets safe from attackers. It has spent almost no time figuring out how to keep assets safe from life itself — from death, illness, accidents, and memory loss.
This guide is for anyone who holds crypto and wants to make sure it doesn't vanish when they do.
What the Guide Covers
Recovery playbook — If you've already lost access to a wallet, the guide walks through practical steps for every scenario: lost passwords with seed phrases intact, locked exchange accounts, and the hardest case — lost seed phrases with no backup.
The inheritance gap — Traditional finance has centuries of infrastructure for wealth transfer: wills, trusts, probate courts. Crypto has none of it. The guide explains why self-custody — one of crypto's greatest strengths — becomes a devastating weakness at the moment of death.
How Miras solves it — A detailed walkthrough of the 2-of-3 multisig architecture, the claim verification process, the Dead Man's Switch, and the Heir Readiness Kit. Written in plain language, not Solidity.
Side-by-side comparison — How Miras stacks up against traditional wills, custodial services, and DIY seed-phrase sharing — across security, trustlessness, cost, and ease of use.
FAQ — Answers to the questions we hear most: Can my heir file a false claim? Can the protocol access my funds? What about quantum computing? What if someone already died without a plan?
Who It's For
This isn't a technical whitepaper (we have one of those too). This guide is written for:
- Crypto holders who want a practical inheritance plan
- Family members trying to understand what happens to digital assets after death
- Financial advisors and estate planners entering the digital asset space
- Anyone curious about how trustless inheritance actually works
Your Next Steps
If you still have access to your wallets, the guide recommends five concrete actions:
- Set up a Miras inheritance plan at miras.global so your assets have a trustless path to your chosen heirs
- Create durable physical backups of your seed phrase and store copies in at least three separate locations
- Move significant holdings to a hardware wallet purchased directly from the manufacturer
- Enable hardware-key 2FA and use a password manager for every crypto-related account
- Share the Miras Heir Readiness Kit with your designated heir so they know exactly what to do
The goal isn't perfect security — it's layered protection that makes loss nearly impossible and inheritance automatic.
Download the full guide (PDF) and start planning today.