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- Category
- Key Recovery & Inheritance
- Entity
- Not verified
- Official website
- bitkey.world
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Details
Scored 54 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in October 2026.
Bitkey (Block)
Seedless 2-of-3 Bitcoin wallet from Block
Key Recovery & Inheritance
#5 Overall
Ranked #5 of 9 key recovery & inheritance in the published ranking
54
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Bitkey (Block) right for you?
Look elsewhere if these come first
- If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins?3/10 here; Unchained scores 9
- What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me?6/10 here; Bitcoin Keeper (BitHyve) scores 7
- If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register?6/10 here; Unchained scores 7
- What does this cost me every year until I die, and what happens to my heir if I stop paying?6/10 here; Bitcoin Keeper (BitHyve) scores 8
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What will Bitkey (Block) cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Transactions per year
- 1k
How safe is Bitkey (Block)?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read October 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Bitkey (Block)
Compare all 4- 4Vault12 Guard6 points above · stronger on recovery without the vendor (5 against 3)60
- 6Unchained5 points below · stronger on recovery without the vendor (9 against 3)49
- 7Bitcoin Keeper (BitHyve)7 points below · stronger on recovery without the vendor (6 against 3)47
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Why this rank
Why Bitkey (Block) ranks #5
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (16.1 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
323+3.076.010#8/9Loading evidence…
286+5.385.09#4/9Loading evidence…
246+4.615.08#4/9Loading evidence…
166+3.077.010#6/9Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−6behind Vault12 Guard, #4
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 52–56 and stays #5
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Bitkey (Block)’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins? 3 → 6 on its ladder · passes Vault12 Guard+360#5 → #4
What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me? 6 → 10 on its ladder · passes Vault12 Guard+461#5 → #4
If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register? 6 → 10 on its ladder · passes Vault12 Guard+460#5 → #4
If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins? 3 → 0 on its ladder · Unchained passes it−348#5 → #6
What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me? 6 → 2 on its ladder · Unchained passes it−447#5 → #6
If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register? 6 → 2 on its ladder · Unchained passes it−448#5 → #6
Smallest climb: “If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins?” 3 → 6 passes Vault12 Guard, #4.
Strengths
0 from the score dataWhere it leads
No scored criterion is at or within one point of the category best, so no strength can be stated from the data.
Tradeoffs
4 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins? — 3/10 against a category best of 10/10
- What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me? — 6/10 against a category best of 9/10
- If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register? — 6/10 against a category best of 8/10
- What does this cost me every year until I die, and what happens to my heir if I stop paying? — 6/10 against a category best of 10/10
Record watch-outs
- The person you named can start your six-month death clock on any ordinary Tuesday, for any reason, and Block will not ask them for a single piece of evidence — "Block does not independently evaluate or validate that such events have occurred" (ToS §3(F)). Your entire defence is noticing an email and reaching an unlocked Bitkey device inside 180 days, which is exactly the capacity the product is sold to cover the loss of. And if the clock ever runs out while you are alive, the damage cannot be undone: your encrypted App Key is released, Bitkey tells you the wallet "is no longer secure", instructs you to move every satoshi and build a fresh keyset, and leaves an undismissable banner that "will remain in your wallet even if the relationship is removed or the transfer is complete". One mistaken tap by a grieving relative costs you a full wallet migration.
Competitive position
Where Bitkey (Block) leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#5 / 912.0 of 20 · best 14.0
Published criteria#8 / 912.1 of 30 · best 20.4
Friction#1 / 92.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 93.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 98.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Bitkey (Block) leadsNo criterion in the top third of its pool.
Where it trails
- If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins?#8 / 9
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Unchained#6 of 9 · score 49 · 5.0 points behind
Bitkey (Block) leads on
- What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me?6 vs 4
Unchained leads on
- If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins?9 vs 3
- If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register?7 vs 6
Largest single reason Bitkey (Block) is ahead: availability (+15.6 display points).Scenario cost: Unchained has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Vault12 Guard#4 of 9 · score 60 · 6.0 points ahead
Bitkey (Block) leads on
- What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me?6 vs 5
- If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register?6 vs 5
Vault12 Guard leads on
- If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins?5 vs 3
Largest single reason Vault12 Guard is ahead: availability (+5.2 display points).Scenario cost: Vault12 Guard has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Bitcoin Keeper (BitHyve)#7 of 9 · score 47 · 7.0 points behind
Bitkey (Block) leads on
- If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register?6 vs 5
Bitcoin Keeper (BitHyve) leads on
- If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins?6 vs 3
- What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me?7 vs 6
- What does this cost me every year until I die, and what happens to my heir if I stop paying?8 vs 6
Largest single reason Bitkey (Block) is ahead: availability (+15.6 display points).Scenario cost: Bitcoin Keeper (BitHyve) has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 54 · gap 27.0Why Liana (Wizardsardine) ranks above Bitkey (Block)
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 27.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisLiana (Wizardsardine)Gap share
Availability · 23% weight12.014.0−5.2, worse
Published criteria · 35% weight12.120.4−21.6, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisLiana (Wizardsardine)Points
If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins? · w32310−7.17, worse
What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me? · w2869−2.69, worse
If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register? · w2465+0.77, better
What does this cost me every year until I die, and what happens to my heir if I stop paying? · w16610−2.05, worse
Net5481−27.0
Your scenario
Bitkey (Block) is not priced for this scenario
The cheapest published tier that covers your usage. List price before any discount; add-ons priced separately are excluded. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Transactions per year · your input1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 28 October 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 9 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
9 of 9 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 28 October 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessHoldsrank #5 across every one-point re-run
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 28 October 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins?strength 3 · weight 32Report an error—28 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me?strength 6 · weight 28Report an error—28 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register?strength 6 · weight 24Report an error—28 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.What does this cost me every year until I die, and what happens to my heir if I stop paying?strength 6 · weight 16Report an error—28 October 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Control failure (Bitkey (Block) 6/10): a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.Scored by What actually makes the handover happen — code, a contract, or somebody's goodwill? And who can start it without me? · 28%
- Execution failure (Bitkey (Block) 6/10): you get a worse price, later, or nothing.Scored by If this fails, who is actually on the hook — and can I find their number in a register? · 24%
- Exit failure (Bitkey (Block) 3/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by If this company is gone in twenty years, can the person I chose still move the coins? · 32%
Not assessed by this ranking: Custody failure, Key failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: What does this cost me every year until I die, and what happens to my heir if I stop paying? (16%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- Read 29 September 2026 on https://
shop .bitkey .world /bitkey- 2nd-generation / with the shop's own USD currency selector (https:// shop .bitkey .world /bitkey- 2nd-generation / ?setCurrencyId =1, HTTP 200): the price block reads "MSRP:" "Was:" "Now:" "$250.00" with the "Was:" field empty — the August sale is over and the current device is back at its list price. The shop geo-defaults to EUR, where the same page reads "€230,00". The first-generation SKU, https:// shop .bitkey .world /bitkey / ?setCurrencyId =1, reads "$150.00" (EUR "€145,00", shown as the related product on the second-generation page). https:// bitkey .world /features /inheritance now renders "Buy — €230" with no reduced price and no sale banner. Inheritance carries NO separate and NO recurring charge: the Terms of Service (https:// bitkey .world /legal /terms-of-service, "Effective Date: June 17, 2025", unchanged) contain no instance of 'subscription', 'recurring', 'monthly fee' or 'auto-renew', and the only cost they attach to Inheritance is on-chain: "Like any transfer of bitcoin, upon execution of an Inheritance transfer, transfer fees will apply to the balance of transferred bitcoin." A working plan is nonetheless TWO devices, because ToS Section 3(F) states "You understand that your beneficiary must be at least 18 years old and must own a Bitkey to be a beneficiary." Worked example (ChainChoice arithmetic, not a vendor figure): two current-generation devices at list price are 500 US dollars, or 460 euros.Bitkey (Block) — official pricing page ↗ · 28 October 2026 - Prices published in
- USDBitkey (Block) — official pricing page ↗ · 28 October 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- ENFORCEMENT LOCATION: Block's servers, not Bitcoin script. Nothing on any Bitkey page describes a timelock, a decaying multisig, or an on-chain policy. The delay is a status field the app and Block's backend maintain, moving between "Claim pending", "Claim approved" and "Complete".
- Supported chains
- Bitcoin
- Markets served
- us, europe, ca, au
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- TWO DISTINCT THINGS FOUND, AND THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. (A) A GENUINE MARKET RESTRICTION. https://
support .bitkey .world /hc /en-us /articles /21632225589524 -Where-is-Bitkey-available (read 17 August 2026 via the Zendesk API) states "Bitkey is available in many countries worldwide. To check availability in your country, begin the checkout process." and then, verbatim: "🔎 Note: We are unable to ship to: APO, FPO, and DPO addresses / PO Boxes located outside of the U.S / New York, United States". The New York exclusion is a real jurisdictional carve-out, not a sanctions rule — it is the same New York posture the repo already records for Block's Cash App in simpleBuyPool. Because Inheritance requires the hardware device, this exclusion propagates: https:// support .bitkey .world /hc /en-us /articles /32913685497876 -Where-is-Inheritance-available — "Inheritance is available everywhere Bitkey is supported." A New York resident cannot buy the device, therefore cannot hold or be named in a Bitkey inheritance plan. (B) THE STANDARD OFAC/SANCTIONS REPRESENTATION, WHICH IS NOT A REGIONAL FOOTPRINT. ToS Section 2(C) 'Sanctions Compliance, Illicit Finance and Export Policy' (https:// bitkey .world /legal /terms-of-service): "You agree, represent and warrant that You will not access or use the Services if such access or use would violate applicable laws, regulations and rules, including but not limited to regulations administered by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (31 C.F.R. Parts 500-599)." This is an eligibility rule applying everywhere and I do NOT treat it as a market footprint. NO POSITIVE COUNTRY LIST IS PUBLISHED — availability is resolved only at checkout. The regions returned are inferred conservatively from the two hard signals Bitkey does publish: the shop's currency set ("US Dollars, Euro, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar") and the ToS entity split between Block, Inc. (US shipping addresses) and Block Global B.V., Amsterdam (all non-US shipping addresses). 'global' is deliberately NOT used because New York is excluded. Separately, Inheritance itself imposes no identity screening at all: https:// bitkey .world /features /inheritance — "No KYC for you or your beneficiary, and no extra personal information required." - CCSS level
- Not on the register as read 15 October 2026 (absent from that page, not a finding that no audit exists)C4 completed CCSS audits register ↗ · 15 October 2026
No confirmed legal entity is on file for this record. Nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
10 methodology entries
- 28 October 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 54, #5 of 9. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.7Forty-one more products are offered only where their own quoted terms serve- fixed 141 country exclusions on 31 rows, each the name of a country the row's own quoted terms exclude: for example Mercuryo Hungary, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia and Morocco; Gemini Custody the United Kingdom, Australia and the EU after its wind-down; Backed xStocks the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela.
- changed Thirteen rows list the only countries their terms serve: Coins.ph the Philippines, Spritz bill pay, Brex, Unchained, WisdomTree, Franklin BENJI and AnchorWatch the United States (with its territories for AnchorWatch), PRYPCO Mint the UAE, N26 crypto seven EU countries, Gemini Tokenized Stocks the EU, XNET the US, Canada and the UK, Coldbit Steel and MetaMask Card the countries they list.
- changed Published (no-country) orders do not move. Country results change: in India six categories each lose one row (bill pay, cards, off-ramps, P2P, seed backup, tokenised real estate), and bill pay there has no row confirmed available, so it shows the published order marked as such; country pages list 23 fewer rows (24,357 to 24,334). The grounding test now matches full country names in any case, which shows seven earlier exclusions were quoted all along: the named debt of unquoted exclusions falls from 40 to 33 pairs.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt key_recovery:bitkey:2026.10.18:9e23226e3510
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