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When the only keyholder dies: the QuadrigaCX lesson
A crypto exchange founder died holding the only keys to customer funds, and what Canada's securities regulator later found is the real custody lesson.
6 min read · updated 2026-09-06
Why the security that protects your accounts is the same thing that locks out your heirs
The same design that keeps an attacker out of your accounts keeps your heirs out too, and here's how splitting a secret gets round it.
7 min read · updated 2026-09-06
Your password manager has an emergency-access feature. It is not an inheritance plan.
Emergency access lets a trusted contact into your password vault after a delay, but it never explains what matters or reaches what the vault does not hold.
5 min read · updated 2026-09-06
Choosing trusted contacts for account recovery
How to pick the people who can help you back into your own account — and why more than one matters.
2 min read · updated 2026-08-21