Bitcoin Treasuries · Nov 12, 2026 · 45m · 38m saved
With Matt McClintock, CEO and Co-founder of Bespoke Group
In 2017, Matt McClintock, an estate planning attorney, was introduced to a family holding roughly $150 million in Bitcoin. Most estate lawyers would have filed that as an unusual asset and moved on; Matt built an entire practice, then a company, around it.
"In 2017, I got introduced to a family that had a tremendous amount of wealth in Bitcoin... about 150 million worth of total wealth in Bitcoin. And I didn't know anything about Bitcoin at the time." — Matt McClintock
Matt closed his law practice entirely in 2024 to run Bespoke Group, the fee-only fiduciary he founded, full time, and told Tim Kotzman on Bitcoin Treasuries that the firm now runs a team of 26 to 28 people globally.
The full interview is covered here so you can skip it. 45 minutes of audio, 7 minutes of reading.
Here are the 10 principles that matter.
Key Takeaways
Bespoke's earliest clients had as much as 90% of their wealth in Bitcoin; most are now net sellers, dialing back toward 20–30%
Matt says "the term family office has come to mean everything and nothing", and most are loss-leader product shops
Bespoke is fee-only, sells no products and is paid only by clients, which doesn't scale past a few dozen families
Clients skip Bitcoin treasury companies and high-yield digital credit because they already hold the underlying asset
A true single family office only makes sense above roughly $2.5 billion in wealth
Recent hardware wallet failures argue for multisig or distributed qualified custody, not just more security
1. From Lawyer To Bespoke
That first $150 million Bitcoin family pulled Matt into Bitcoin-specific trust and entity work, and his practice increasingly attracted early miners and large holders.
A $150M Bitcoin client pulled Matt into the space
"In 2017, I got introduced to a family that had a tremendous amount of wealth in Bitcoin... about 150 million worth of total wealth in Bitcoin. And I didn't know anything about Bitcoin at the time." — Matt McClintock
Demand eventually outgrew the law practice entirely.
"We got to the point where the traction we were getting with Bespoke was so compelling that we closed the law practice in 2024." — Matt McClintock
