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A family separated by borders

Across a border what passes is not objects but records. Here are the analyses of how such records work, who they pass to and why they cannot be recalled.

Inheritance and memory

Who inherits your accounts if you do nothing

Four distinctions carry the whole subject of digital inheritance: an account is a permission and not a thing; the tools hand over a copy and not access; a purchase in a store is a licence and not a file; an assistant's memory holds facts about a person rather than their words. The rules of Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Steam are quoted from their own agreements, and the ending lists what can genuinely be switched on in one evening.

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Identity and documents

A document with no off switch

Every credential has someone who can switch it off: a state, a company, a registrar, a platform. The analysis follows that thread — three documented shutdowns, the closed loop of the appeal, the W3C standards and the European wallet where the state remains the root of trust. Then the build of the CODE Eternal Digital Passport: JSON on Arweave, a 43-character address, an email fingerprint instead of the email. And the price: if it cannot be revoked, a typo cannot be fixed either.

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Identity and addresses

A name against a permission

An address somebody issued is an address somebody can revoke. This reading follows what has to be built instead of a domain: an identifier inside a Solana account, a manifest in Arweave, search by meaning rather than by name, collateral against fake nodes and an escrow forty seconds long.

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Law and architecture

The right to leave

A vault that promises eternity has built itself an exit. Four tiers of freedom — weight erasure, sleep behind a two-thirds vote, a robotics plan with a budget line, and a lock that tests not the decision but its authorship. We measure them with one ruler: how much of this does not exist yet.

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