If you trust your wife, just give her full access to your cold storage method.

If you don't trust your wife, but want her to have your bitcoins when you die, create an M of N wallet. Put a piece in your will, put a piece in your safe deposit box (she should be able to access it when you die), and give her the final piece(s) necessary to construct the wallet.

She won't be able to touch your bitcoins. Anyone with access to your will won't be able to touch your bitcoins. The establishment which controls the safe deposit box won't be able to touch your bitcoins. Yet, when you die, she will be able to obtain all the pieces necessary to construct the complete wallet.

If there is a piece of the puzzle which you do not trust (say you don't think the bank will allow access to the safe deposit box), adjust your scheme accordingly. Add redundancy. Make it so she only needs 1 piece from either the will or the safe deposit box.

There is a mining hardware forum. Most of your threads are placed in the wrong forum, which doesn't do much to help you get an answer.

By then Bitcoin will be successful or a failure. I doubt it will only be a niche thing at that point. If it's successful, there will be millions of transactions fighting to be included in a block. Miners will be fine. If it is a failure (replaced by something else), well... who cares about how Bitcoin miners get paid?

We have a press forum.

We are talking mBTC, right?

Use a M of N paper wallet. There are many places you can keep pieces for your family to access if you die. Will. Safety deposit box. Et cetera.

Anyone with access to only one piece won't be able to do anything with it. Make sure your family can get the pieces to access your coins in the event of your death.

I found a different version though.

No, I just did a google image search.

I doubt this is it since it doesn't give me the impression of a "sea", but maybe close to what you are looking for?

First of all, these laws exist.

Second of all, laws don't prevent bad things from happening. They allow the victims (if they are still alive) to seek justice in the court of law.

A better solution is to protect yourself from the start.

If you aren't the sole controller of your private keys, you don't have any bitcoins. (That's a "law" I can live by.)

If one wants to speculate on the Bitcoin exchange rate, one has to understand the third party risks involved.

Gox is done. Even if they fix their withdraw issue, it isn't the only issue plaguing them.

They handled the transaction malleability problem in the worst possible way. They thought it was better to blame known protocol issues instead of their custom implementation which if done correctly would have easily handled transaction malleability.

Gox has plagued Bitcoin for long enough. I expect them to fix this single problem and then be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Anyone who continues to use them after this most recent episode of Goxxing is a moron and deserves any future abuse they receive at the hands of Gox.

Would you do anything differently if the universe was a simulation and you knew it? Would you want to know?

You aren't dealing with bitcoin at Gox, you are dealing with bitcoin IOUs. Those IOUs might be worthless if organization issuing them turns out to be less than trustworthy.

If you aren't the sole controller of your private keys, you don't have any bitcoins.

Don't worry. They can only take from the unprepared. In the long run, they are doing everyone a favor.

Interesting reading. Thanks.

Bitcoin is easier to protect (and conceal) than gold.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt

Financial freedom. The ability to store and transfer value without asking for help from a middleman or permission from an authority.

Maybe this thread will help out?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=460944.0