Recovering bitcoins after the owner's death My Brother died in April and we believe he had a bitcoin account. Is it possible to find out how to recover/take over his accounts? 
I know this is a new form of currency but it seems odd there is no way of recovering information in these circumstances. 
Any help would be welcome. I still have all his computers, so can anything be traced through them? 
Thank you.
There are two main ways someone can hold Bitcoin


On an Exchange or Online Wallet


or


Privately on a computer in a wallet or offline private wallet


For (1) you will need to obtain the username and password to access the account.

For (2) you will need to login to the computer and, depending on your luck, if the wallet is not encrypted, you should have access. If the wallet is encrypted you will need the password to transfer/spend the coins.  If you do get access to the computer then look for the bitcoin application and run that to see if there are any BTC in the account.

If your brother had a paper wallet then you will need to find this information as it will have public and private keys to access the coins. These can be imported into a wallet to give access to the funds.

Unfortunately, if you cannot find the info above the coins are lost. There is no central control of this currency so there's nobody you can contact for help.