Then what will happen to your account?

[Crypto Library]

I will ask  a question to this community member's. Maybe it's looks werid  but suddenly this question arises in my mind. And the question is:
"what will happen to your account when you passed away ?"

• Will you pass it on to your children? (Is it legal in this forum ?)
• Or will everything end there?
• Then  Can't we see the good deeds from these big reputed people's account?

[Upgrade00]

After a user passes away, the most appropriate action imo, is for the account to become idle.

I wouldn't want to associate a veteran account to a new entity behind the keyboard who we all know nothing about. The forum is of course anonymous and no one knows who is who personally, but through someone's posts, replies and demeanor, it's possible to build a sort of personality about them.
Transfer of account would creates lots of challenges, especially in the trust system.
A total newbie could just walk only a DT1 account.

Then  Can't we see the good deeds from these big reputed people's account?

All posts remain public and anyone can easily access them.

[Crypto Library]

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Ok I understand, mate. But I want to know the personal opinion of the people in this forum by asking this question?

[mk4]

You're talking about Bitcointalk accounts as if it was your bitcoin wallet, or some hugely successful business that you need to hand down to your children. It's just a forum account, chill.

[Rikafip]

You're talking about Bitcointalk accounts as if it was your bitcoin wallet, or some hugely successful business that you need to hand down to your children. It's just a forum account, chill.

I think that's exactly what bitcointalk account is to many people here.


@OP Regarding your question, in case of my death my account will become inactive, as simple as that. I see no point setting up some kind of fail safe mechanism like people do with their wallets as I don't want anyone except me to have access to this account.

[mk4]

I think that's exactly what bitcointalk account is to many people here.

I totally get that they earn a living on Bitcointalk (especially those in poorer countries), but I really hope they only look at Bitcointalk as temporary income and not as something they'd expect to earn from til the day they die to the point that they'd need to pass it on to their children lol.

[Charles-Tim]

I totally get that they earn a living on Bitcointalk (especially those in poorer countries), but I really hope they only look at Bitcointalk as temporary income and not as something they'd expect to earn from til the day they die to the point that they'd need to pass it on to their children lol.

Even if they are earning from this forum, that does not means there children should inherit their account, just like you first posted, it is just an account, any children that like this forum and want to learn more about life in relation to bitcoin can just register an account. You are also not wrong that people should not see this as a permanent means of earning.

[Coyster]

any children that like this forum and want to learn more about life in relation to bitcoin can just register an account.

I second that, i can't imagine having to pass down a bitcointalk account to my children, that will be absurd to say the least. Rather than do a thing like that, if your children are somewhat interested in Bitcoin like you said, then let them register on the forum and join in the discussions about Bitcoin and other whatnots that go on here. There are more important things i'd worry about passing down to my children than my account. This thread should be in meta in my opinion.

[salad daging]

I started a search on the forum about RIP and I found Becky666's account died as reported by CryptopreneurBrainboss on his local board on May 10, 2021.

Since Becky666's account died, this account is no longer active, meaning this account is not inherited by anyone because of course if it changes hands it will be different, so my assumption is that even though there are children who can be inherited, but for forum accounts it is a little different but there are good things like what was said above if you are interested in the world of bitcoin then it is better to create a new account than to continue it.

I myself if I die I will not bequeath it, let them know the forum on their own and learn a lot from it.

[Alisha-k]

My password can be reset by my Pal and children and given to any friend who love to learn more about Bitcoin. So  far i have introduced them to the forum so the can maintain and focus on their personal if no one is found then the  account will remain dormant or given to any member of the public who have deep interest in Bitcoin and is willing to explore and learn.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

It's just a forum mate, nothing too special about the forum to warrant passing it to my children, if at all my children need to be on this forum, I will rather have them register their own account and build it by themselves, let my reputation and legacy on this forum remain as it is, it's something the forum will remember me for when am gone, and this is if at all a user's reputation and legacies mean anything at all.
This also will help my children have an experience of what it feels like to build a reputable bitcointalk account, rather than have them enjoy a glory they did not work for, they will not know what it took me to get to the level I was before passing the account to them if I do.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

You have failed as a parent if all you can think about your kids inheriting from you is your Bitcointallk account. That's just like passing down your facebook logins to your kids as inheritance. Assuming there was an internal revenue from the forum for your past useful posts then you could consider what happens to your account after you die. For instance if the forum was like YouTube that keep paying for the contents you have created until the earning privilege is disabled them you this discussion would had been useful bit since it isn't the discussion become useless.

If you have business hosted on the forum that can be actually passed down to your kids then don't restrict them to just your account, excluding that and you're just relying on the signature/bounty campaigns earnings then go get a life. Immediately your account is found to have changed hands there are high chances of you getting mark especially when it was a well known account on the forum.

[hugeblack]

I do not see a reason for you to use the account of someone who has died, especially since most of the discussions in the forum are of a personal and scientific nature, and therefore the transfer of ownership will affect the quality of participation, as there is no difference between the account that was created now and the one that was created in 2010.
Therefore, there is no reason but to announce to the forum that he has passed away.

[Stalker22]

I do not see a reason for you to use the account of someone who has died, especially since most of the discussions in the forum are of a personal and scientific nature, and therefore the transfer of ownership will affect the quality of participation, as there is no difference between the account that was created now and the one that was created in 2010.
Therefore, there is no reason but to announce to the forum that he has passed away.

Don't see a reason? Let me give you a picture. Imagine you are living in the gold rush period and searching for gold in some backwater of the Wild West. Well, I bet for some members this forum is like they discovered gold, and it is new territory for them. Everyone is rushing around trying to get some! What if you could leave your gold mine to your children in the event of your untimely demise? That would be nice, right?

[Ryker1]

Well, everything will end there if you have passed away.
Even though you are not telling to anyone but it seems your account may be suspected as a sold account because it is changing in hand due to the posting style, posting habit and of course, the knowledge that your child has compared to your knowledge.
Besides, you will never know when you will be passed away --it seems like the crypto market price is unpredictable. So inheriting your account is possibly useless.

[Porfirii]

If our forum member names work as masks and some parts of our personality, ideas, beliefs... arise when using them, then transferring "mortis causa" the account lacks some kind of logic in that sense. Maybe, if just the rank was transferable but not the forum name...

In the meantime, accounts are transferrable even "inter vivos".

[CryptocurencyKing]

It can be passed to someone that you want to entrusted it and it’s legal since this is just an internal transfer as long as the new owner will follow all the rules in the forum. Usually DT just give a neutral feedback for change of ownership to mark that the account change hands.

You call it internal hence, the status to this transfer is most likely to be unknown so, how how the DTs go ahead to find out and proceed with a trust feedback. Of course the post quality might change but that's not enough reason still.

The truth is, one's reputation doesn't proceed another and as such, they can't or shouldn't be traded, neither can it be transfered fron persons to persons. Best option would always remain that the account be left alone and if your completely sure your never going to be back, you could notify the forum in a thread on the reputation board and lay it to rest.

[hatshepsut93]

My account will become inaccessible, because no one has password to my PC, and no one would need my bitcointalk account or know what to do with it. Maybe if people who were close to me were in extremely dire financial situations, I would have left them with instructions how to sell my account and make some money, but we are very far from it. I don't want to be greedy and squeezing money out of every single opportunity that comes by me, because some opportunities are just shady from a moral point of view. If I or someone else would sell my account, it would betray my memory and reputation, and also reflect negatively on the forum - after all we assume that users that we interacted with all these years are the same, and not different people who only post to make money. Like that guy from Chipmixer campaign who had multiple sockpuppets.

[tranthidung]

The forum discourage account selling so it is similar to the case you ask.

Account selling is discouraged because a buyer, a new owner of one account can use it for wrong purposes such as scam. In case you have a very trusted account here, and you fortunately pass away, will your account be used correctly (at least no scam) by your relatives.

Who knows what will your relatives do with it?

Forum has some mechanism to highlight potential suspicious activities:

• Password, email change/ reset via email (in sec log): https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php
• Password, email change in profile page (click on Trust and you will see such changes). There is a window to display such changes, maybe up to 30 days (?)

[dansus021]

when you die is likely everything else that you have, as long no one knows your password or email then your bitcointalk or bitcoin address with the coin in it still be there, as far as I know, bitcointalk would not delete your account because of inactivity.

but I think still okay to pass it to your families member