{"id":2848,"date":"2026-03-13T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:02:58","slug":"digital-inheritance-management-of-cryptocurrencies-and-digital-assets-of-the-deceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/case-studies-typical-scenarios\/digital-inheritance-management-of-cryptocurrencies-and-digital-assets-of-the-deceased\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital inheritance: management of cryptocurrencies and digital assets of the deceased"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hypothetical case study developed on the basis of our experience with families on international matters, intended to illustrate the type of operations that the Firm is able to structure and manage for clients with a similar profile; the scenario does not refer to a specific case actually handled.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A forty-five-year-old man dies suddenly, leaving to his wife and two children a well-defined traditional estate, but also a cryptocurrency portfolio with an estimated value of over 600,000 euros of which no one knows the access keys. Bitcoin on a hardware wallet locked in a safe, Ethereum on an exchange of which the family does not have the credentials, tokens on DeFi platforms of whose existence no one was even aware, an account on a trading platform that refuses access without the two-factor authentication of the deceased holder. Assets that exist but that no one can touch. And in the meantime the value fluctuates: what today is worth 600,000 euros in three months could be worth 400,000 or 800,000. To this are added non-financial digital assets: a web domain that generates advertising revenue, a library of digital content with non-transferable personal licences, social accounts with commercial value. Digital inheritance is the new frontier of successions: assets that do not physically exist, that are in no land registry and in no securities register, that can be unrecoverable if one does not act with technical and legal competence in a short time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypothetical case study developed on the basis of our experience with families on international matters, intended to illustrate the type of operations that the Firm is able to structure and manage for clients with a similar profile; the scenario does not refer to a specific case actually handled. A forty-five-year-old man dies suddenly, leaving to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies-typical-scenarios"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}