Hello, my brother passed away last week. Yesterday I heard he had purchased bitcoin a long time ago. What do I need to do to be able to sell his bitcoin as part of his estate. I have no bitcoin wallet app from him. Dont know password. There is no will, although I can obtain an attorney who can legally appoint me as administrator of the estate. He lived in Miami, Florida. Thank you for any help
The lawyer you want to hire is not able to give you the lost bitcoins - in this he is Powerless. Legal is what he can give you. You can own his fortune if he had no heirs, family, and children.
But even if you will rightfully belong to his bought bitcoins-without a secret key to his wallet, you will never get them no matter what you do! The probability of hacking a bitcoin wallet is very small and it is simply unrealistic, so you need to try hard to find its private keys and records.