From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   bad sector  writes:   
   > I suppose you have to first buy them, and then spend them, not having   
   > even tried to understand the system yet (ZERO trust). How do you find   
   > the bitcoins of someone who passed away and whose computer was partly   
   > encrypted (no passwords found)?   
      
   You don’t.   
      
   > Tomorrow will be one year that my younger son passed away suddenly and   
   > I'm pretty sure he had some modest bitcoin stash but I could never   
   > crack his computer (except enough to recover pictures and videos for   
   > his survivors). Pro data-recovery was too expensive to try. The system   
   > seems to be lacking in this respect.   
      
   It’s a general issue with cryptographic systems. If you lose a key,   
   passphrase, physical token, etc then you can no longer use whatever it   
   was they protected. Sometimes that’s a risk you’re willing to take,   
   sometimes it isn’t. Personally I wouldn’t take that risk with savings   
   and investments.   
      
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