What Happens to Your Bitcoin If You Die? How a Texan in El Zonte Built a Free Tool for Your Family | Eric Summers of The Bitcoin Hardware Store

What happens to your Bitcoin if you die tomorrow? In El Zonte, one builder’s answer is a dead man switch and an encrypted seed phrase. If you practice self custody, your 12 or 24 words are stored somewhere safe. How your family would ever reach them is the question Eric Summers set out to solve. Mike first met Eric as the math tutor for one of his son’s friends. Eric’s story of moving to El Salvador begins in Texas in 2023, when a Salvadoran friend told him to come look. He stayed 10 days wit...