To the digerati – the elite of the technology world – Bitcoins are as valuable as the dollar or any other state-sponsored currency. But the rules are still under development for estate planning purposes, and planning for an estate that includes Bitcoins must take this into account.
Most people know what Bitcoins are, even if they don’t use the digital currency that has become popular in the online world. The theory behind Bitcoins was that the world was ready for digital currency, an electronic peer to peer cash system that would eliminate the use of money created by countries.
Bitcoins were to be untraceable and uncontrollable by any government.