Oliver Schantin
Aug 5, 20222 min
Updated: Sep 20, 2022
Blockchain based assets are posing challenges to many sectors of the economy. This is the case for inheritance law too. The inheritance of unseizable assets on an immutable blockchain is unlike anything the traditional inheritance law has seen up until now. The CEO and co-founder of basenode.io, Oliver Schantin, was giving the opening speech at the German national summit of lawyers for inheritance law “Deutscher Erbrechtstag”. He explains: “The main difference compared to traditional assets is, that whoever holds the private key to a blockchain asset, is by definition also the owner.”
Because there is neither a company, nor a person, that has the power to seize the assets, inheriting a blockchain based token, means making sure, that the private key is transferred to the heir. This becomes especially difficult when it is unclear, whether the bequeathing person was holding crypto assets. Having a well documented report of all the wallets and transactions of a person can make the process of identifying the amount to be inherited much easier. The best practice is using a crypto portfolio tracker, such as basenode.io.
After his opening speech, Oliver was having an open question round with the lawyers in the audience at the Erbrechtstag. Seeing the increasing interest in digital assets is a telling sign of the emerging token economy.
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