“This is both because it is hard to successfully steward resources over longer timescales”
This has traditionally been the case, with few entities able to achieve long-term stewardship (the Catholic Church’s real estate investment strategy is a rare exception). However, programmatically releasing the key to a bitcoin wallet an arbitrary number of years into the future is definitely possible. It is harder, but probably still possible, to ensure that the entity to which the key is released remains aligned with your interests. An alternative is that, if you care about interplanetary or interstellar space settlement, you can launch physical copies of the wallet’s key toward other planets and stars (Breakthrough Starshot style). This would ensure that whatever entity retrieves it has interests aligned with at least that aspect of your worldview.
“This is both because it is hard to successfully steward resources over longer timescales”
This has traditionally been the case, with few entities able to achieve long-term stewardship (the Catholic Church’s real estate investment strategy is a rare exception). However, programmatically releasing the key to a bitcoin wallet an arbitrary number of years into the future is definitely possible. It is harder, but probably still possible, to ensure that the entity to which the key is released remains aligned with your interests. An alternative is that, if you care about interplanetary or interstellar space settlement, you can launch physical copies of the wallet’s key toward other planets and stars (Breakthrough Starshot style). This would ensure that whatever entity retrieves it has interests aligned with at least that aspect of your worldview.