This is a 21-chapter series of a father’s Bitcoin Heirloom Book. Raw, honest, and open about his Bitcoin journey and the wisdom & values learned. To be passed down to his son to read before receiving his Bitcoin inheritance. You can read the other chapters here.
My son,
Before you touch a single sat of your Bitcoin inheritance, I ask that you read this book. Cover to cover. Not because I don’t trust you, but because what I’m handing you is more than an asset. It’s a worldview, hopefully a profound one. And without the context of how our stack was built, why it was saved, and what it cost, you’d be inheriting coins without conviction.
I want you to know the greater why. Why I chose Bitcoin for our family. Why I saved it specifically for you. Why I believe it is a once-in-a-species discovery that, if stewarded properly, can end a financial wound that’s been carried through at least two generations before you — from your grandparents, to your mother and me, and almost to you. Almost. Because that cycle ends here, with Bitcoin.
I grew up with a single mother who didn’t have the time or capacity to teach me personal finance. Living paycheck to paycheck, she didn’t have assets to pass down. And without anyone teaching me about money and how to have a healthy relationship with it, I unconsciously absorbed a single message: go make it. Fast. At any cost.
So that’s what I did. At 20 years old, straight out of college, I started my first technology startup. For seven years I built that company, and for most of those years, I felt confused, bored, lost, and hollow. I kept waking up asking myself if this was really what life amounted to. I was doing everything I was told to do and still coming up short.
That experience taught me something I want you to carry: when a person is driven by financial scarcity — when there’s no foundation, no education, no safety net — they give up optionality. They take the first thing that pays. They optimize for survival instead of meaning. And they can spend years, even decades, building something that was never really fulfilled them in any way.
I don’t wish that for you. I can feel you have a heart of service. So what I want is for you to have the financial foundation to go pursue that — to achieve personal fulfillment in whatever you choose to serve or create, without scarcity dictating the terms. So you can choose what to work on because it matters to you, not because you have to eat. So you can can prioritize your schedule around the people you love. So you can be present with your own family the way I’ve chosen to be present with you, something I did not have the privilege growing up with a hardworking single mom trying to make ends meet.
This is what Bitcoin has already made possible for our family. And if I’m right about where it’s going, what you’ll be receiving will be a meaningful amount of financial security.
But here’s what I ask of you, my son. I ask that you don’t take it for granted. That you receive this with gratitude and deep responsibility, not entitlement. There is a difference between a child who inherits something and feels owed to, and a child who inherits something and understands the significance of it. The difference is story. The difference is knowing what it took. That’s why this Bitcoin Heirloom Book exists.
This heirloom book is our family’s Bitcoin Standard book. It’s less about financial advice nor typical Bitcoin education you’ll abundantly find elsewhere, but rather wisdom and values etched into my heart that learned through the journey I’ve personally been on with Bitcoin.
My deepest hope is that when you receive your Bitcoin inheritance, you inherit our family’s learnings alongside to properly steward it. From there, I want you to steward it onwards for your family, for your children, with the same intention it was saved for you. Bitcoin is the hardest money ever created… a once-in-a-species discovery. I am grateful to have been alive during the adoption phase, and I’m proud to have taken action for me and for you. This will take responsibility. And I want you to be ready for that.
Read this first. Then we’ll talk about the keys.
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