Married guys should jump all over to the idea of bitcoins, it's another great use for cryptos. Wives these days aren't easy to control, not like the good old times, 19th century, oh well, technology comes to rescue. You guys should use 1) DNA analysis to find out who the real father is and now 2) use bitcoins to give a middle finger to an unfaithful wife in case of divorce. Attack and defense mechanisms parallel development, so to say. What other technological achievements progress can bring us? We can only dream and embrace them as they come. Stay tuned.
In western societies there are less and less incentives for men to get married these days. But if you do, at least do it right, with the technology on your side.
easy on the woman bashing.
ps - if she married him for his money, be probably married her for her t&a. risky move; you'll probably get burned
Agreed. I think all those comments about "unfairness of the system" and "cheating wive" and what else are not appropriate here. I got married myself two months ago (without a contract, which means community ownership of assets in my country, AFAIK). I'm aware of this and we decided that is what we want, and so be it. I'm not going to whine about that or try to work my ways around the law if we should get divorced (although I feel this is highly unlikely).
That said, while I'm not a lawyer, I suppose that your buddy "must" also pay her part of the Bitcoins (especially if he has converted their common assets to Bitcoins he wants to keep for himself). Whether they can force that is another thing, but he should be very careful about hiding the tracks and coming up with a good explanation as to what became of the money, I suppose.