Most family Bitcoin advice assumes a single tech-savvy adult. Real families have a partner who isn't sure yet, kids who'll inherit, and an extended family who may need access without becoming experts. The wallet that works in that house is structurally different from the one that works on a lone hardware key.
This is the playbook for the second kind of household. Multi-wallet setups for couples and kids, inheritance protocols that don't require you to be alive to explain them, the "what if I get hit by a bus on Tuesday" tests, and the practical engineering of putting an Indian middle-class family on a Bitcoin standard without breaking the marriage.
Bias note: non-custodial only, India-aware, written by an engineer running it on his own household.
What happens when you teach your children about sound money from the start.
How Bitcoin's principles changed our family's approach to saving, planning, and generational wealth.
Bitcoin isn't just money. It's a lens for seeing everything — family, health, business, education, savings — through the filter of sound money and low time preference.
Part of On Bitcoin Standard — exploring how sound money changes every domain of life.
