One of the most frequent concerns Unchained clients have is inheritance—making sure their bitcoin passes properly at their death. Your partnership with us through an Unchained vault can be instrumental…
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Many people early in their bitcoin journey end up temporarily distracted by altcoins. If this describes you, you may have accumulated an altcoin portfolio that you no longer want to…
If your income is higher than a certain amount per year as designated by the IRS, there are special provisions you must consider as it relates not just to bitcoin…
A question I would often receive when I was in private law practice, before coming to Unchained, was whether clients holding bitcoin are required to file FinCEN Form 114 (colloquially…
The most common way to fund a bitcoin IRA is by a rollover from an existing retirement plan, often from a former employer. If you’re considering rolling over an employer…
In bitcoin, it’s always important to secure your seeds, but how exactly do you do that? In previous articles, we’ve discussed what seed phrases are and how they work, and…
At Unchained, we’re commonly asked by clients whether holding bitcoin in an IRA is “IRS-approved” and whether the IRS may “ban bitcoin IRAs in the future.” The short answer: Holding…
If you’ve ever set up a bitcoin wallet, you should be familiar with a 12- or 24-word seed phrase (otherwise known as a seed backup, recovery phrase, seed words, mnemonic…
Many people want to hold bitcoin in an IRA. However, most “bitcoin IRA” companies don’t allow for control of any private keys, and further often charge large storage and purchase…
You might think of hardware wallets as the secure offline devices you use to store bitcoin, but technically they are the user interface for your seed, allowing you to sign…