Pillar Guide
28 min read
What does it mean to hold wealth in an asset that no government controls? For most of financial history, that question was theoretical. Gold came close, but governments solved that problem in 1933. Bitcoin is the first asset where that dependency is optional — and this changes the calculus for family offices in ways most wealth advisors haven't fully internalized.
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Framework
24 min read
If you've decided that Bitcoin is a meaningful part of your family's balance sheet, the question becomes: what infrastructure does that require? Not which wallet to use. The structural question is deeper — how do you build the organizational, legal, and operational framework that treats Bitcoin not as a speculative position but as the foundational asset.
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Estate Planning
26 min read
Your Bitcoin holdings are one forgotten passphrase away from vanishing forever. No other asset has this property. The very feature that makes Bitcoin resistant to seizure is the same feature that makes succession planning existentially important. This is the analysis every Bitcoin family needs before anything else.
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Tax Strategy
22 min read
The tax code was not designed for Bitcoin. It was designed for equities, real estate, and fixed income. Bitcoin exhibits the volatility of a venture-stage company, the holding characteristics of a commodity, and the scarcity of precious metals — and the IRS treats it as property. This creates both significant challenges and extraordinary opportunities.
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Technical Deep Dive
25 min read
Custody isn't a technical detail. It's the difference between owning Bitcoin and owning a promise about Bitcoin. Every major failure in Bitcoin's history — every exchange collapse, every fund implosion — has been a custody failure. Understanding this distinction is the single most important thing a family office can do before allocating.
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