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Your code outlives you. Your accounts don't. Your npm packages keep being downloaded a million times a week with nobody at the wheel. A look at what actually happens to a developer's open source footprint after death — and why the bus factor of half the internet is one.

Your Bitcoin has an inheritance problem. Your NFTs, DeFi positions, and Web3 identities have a worse one. Here's what actually lives on-chain, what dies with the wallet, and how to build an inheritance plan that works for all of it.

Pay monthly, pay yearly, or let your subscription lapse — once your deadman switch is set up, it fires on schedule no matter what. Here's why we made it work this way, and the new pricing that comes with it.

Your divorce decree updates the big stuff. But hundreds of digital accounts still list your ex as beneficiary, trusted contact, or admin. Here's what to change, in what order, and how to make sure nothing gets missed.

If you died tomorrow, could your family unlock the front door, stop the robot vacuum, or turn off the camera pointed at the living room? The connected home has quietly become one of the most overlooked parts of digital estate planning.

In the weeks after NASCAR driver Greg Biffle's death, someone drained his bank accounts, compromised his wife's Venmo, and walked through his home for six hours. The exploit followed a pattern fraudsters use against grieving families every day—and the vulnerability window is mostly preventable.

The average Steam user has a library worth $1,500+. Serious gamers pass $10,000. Add consoles, subscriptions, in-game currencies, and Twitch subs, and gaming becomes a five-figure digital asset — one almost no estate plan addresses.

Lose access to one bank account and you can call the bank. Lose access to your email and you lose the ability to recover anything else. Why email is the single most critical account in your digital estate — and how to plan for it.

Documents handle the paperwork. Notebooks handle everything else — the stories, the reasoning, the memories, the context your family will actually want. Why encrypted notebooks are the missing piece of a real digital estate plan, and how to start one.

You enabled two-factor authentication to protect your accounts from hackers. But what happens when your family needs access and the 2FA codes go to a phone that's locked, lost, or buried with you? Here's how to plan for it.