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This doesn't sound appealing to me. A dead man's switch is exactly the kind of thing I want in the hands of some tiny number of people I trust deeply. This is why we pay attorneys and assign living trusts, who are already punished for bad behavior by bar committees and law enforcement agencies.

I guess this is great if you're a drug lord or living in a failed state and honest to God can't trust anyone.



Can you expand on why?

In this case you're trusting asymmetric cryptography, the liveness of the EVM and the third parties is motivated by money.

The attorney just acts as the third party and is responsible for the "liveness" of your will. All the smart contact does it make things explicit.




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