{"id":1040145,"date":"2026-10-01T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040145"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:05:43","slug":"what-happens-to-an-investors-crypto-assets-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/01\/what-happens-to-an-investors-crypto-assets-after-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens to an investor\u2019s crypto assets after his death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an IT professional from Pune. I hold Bitcoin and Ethereum on an Indian exchange and some tokens in my personal wallet. If something were to happen to me suddenly, can my family inherit these holdings?&#8211;Name withheld on request<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government does not recognise cryptocurrencies as legal tender. At the same time, crypto assets are not generally prohibited from being held or traded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an IT professional from Pune. I hold Bitcoin and Ethereum on an Indian exchange and some tokens in my personal wallet. If something were to happen to me suddenly, can my family inherit these holdings?&#8211;Name withheld on request The Indian government does not recognise cryptocurrencies as legal tender. At the same time, crypto assets are not generally prohibited from being held or traded.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040146,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040145\/revisions\/1040146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}