Topic: Wife discovers husband's hidden Bitcoin during divorce proceeding - page 8. (Read 1027 times)

Well, things are not the same everywhere. I would say the husband failed because he couldn't keep his privacy. If it were in a wallet where we were holding his bitcoins, it would be wise to use a Mixer or do some mixing transactions between wallets and keep it in a single wallet. Finding a wallet where some bitcoins were sitting without any transaction in the last couple of years is not easy. But, if he were doing transactions and holding his Bitcoin in the same wallet. That's his mistake.

However, I don't suggest doing it since it's cheating. I just shared my opinion on why it was his privacy failure. But, when it comes to follow the rules and regulations, you should be honest there. Let's say I am holding a good portion of Bitcoin, I will tell my partner that I am holding it.

Looks like that husband is not smart enough if he was not able to hide it

His husband work all the time to make money while she's only become a housewife and live comfortable, how can the husband is stealing his wife money when he's the one who make it? that's an another story if both of them are working regardless how much money both of them make.

You will not give all of your coins to your child? so you let all of your coins gone when you die?

Anyway splitting asset during divorce is already nothing new, usually a man is playing smart for use his mom or father name behalf of his asset, so when divorce happen, all of his expensive asset is safe.

a very decent asset to keep secret from other people, in matters of distributing assets for divorce cases of course there are different rules in each country, but in this case of course the wife is very cunning so she can find out her husband's bitcoin assets which have been kept secret for a long time, and everyone who are married, of course there are personal secrets that are indeed hidden. If there is a divorce like this, one party will not feel these assets.

Being that she has found out, the law in her country may demand she gets half of it as well. It will really be hurtful to the man Because he must have been very disciplined in investing and keeping his Bitcoins to have that amount of bitcoins stashed somewhere. That is a habit he has already developed fully unlike his wife who may have little idea about bitcoins and will most predictable end up using it all. The man will be able to get more bitcoins and grow his wallet status back, but for the woman, she will not.

I remember the split of Achraf Hakimi and Hiba Abouk people think that Hakimi is a smart guy naming all of his assets and properties to her mom before the proceedings of the divorce. On the other hand with this situation of split of this guy and his wife, the law varies per country on how the proceedings will be. If he hasn't declared his other assets resulting to being caught then he's obliged to give half of it to his wife as the split proceeds. There's the intention of this guy not to declare it and thought that his ex-wife wouldn't find it out.

Diamonds and jewelry can't be split in two but bitcoin can be.

To be completely honest, I don't know well how the law works in this case. I'm just very much against this and these terrible laws makes me think that its better to marry without signing a marriage certificate. One may ask, don't you trust your wife? But you know, shit happens, especially today and probably too much feminism and too much praise of women makes men to marry women from poor countries who do housework and act like a housewife instead of a queen.
By the way, is it legally fair that this women took her husband's Ledger without his knowledge? It's a robbery.

This is the first time I've heard a story like that, it appears that the wife is quite smart for hiring someone to investigate whether her husband has bitcoin or not. However it also seems that she's being greedy by wanting to split his bitcoin investment in half which amounts to a significant sum of money around 6 BTC for each of them. I think the husband should have considered sending his Bitcoin to a family member such as his mother or father in order to avoid falling into this situation. He could have learned from the case of Ahref Hakimi who faced a similar predicament with his ex-wife.

You have to declare every single penny you have in case of a divorce, and things like having half a million $ in safekeeping from somebody won't fly with any judge. You will simply have to return them and your mother will get a nice call from the IRS about half a million she never mentioned din her taxes.


Previously undisclosed.
From the court's point of view, it doesn't even matter if he has the wallet anymore, if those coins have been traced living his main disclosed wallet and he has no statement or filling of selling those it means the coins are his and the current value of those will be added, he can keep the coins, he can split it, he can even burn his keys, he will still have to pay half of it.


Bruh, the law doesn't give a damn about the technical stuff of multi sig wallets or anything like this.
Those 12 BTC are counted as value, just like that, do you think couples will split diamonds and jewelry and cars in half at a divorce?


No, the law is not pushing anyone to send half of the coins.
The law is demanding that both of them present all their assets for the divorce, and split the value, it might be possible that nobody will want the BTC so they will get sold and each of them will receive half all whatever. Also, just because the lawyer can't subpoena a financial institution in another jurisdiction it doesn't mean the court can't force both of them to disclose their assets hold there.

Interesting story. I will say, you should understand the divorce terms and conditions. if the term says 50/50, so be it. But with digital currencies, This can be kept so safe and private without the woman's knowledge also it can be argued. What if the man invested the 12BTC on behalf of someone?

In digital currency too, there are advantages and disadvantages, especially in the occurrence of death and no one knows the key.

His wife were aware of his bitcoins that is why she hired a forensic to find the wallet or key. Still I don't clear about hiring forensic but that is my best guess. People are getting smarter and so the husband was smart enough to hide his bitcoins but seems like his ex wife is also techy.

Should have learned his lessons from A.Hakimi and gave the key phrases to his mom instead hiding.

I am not trying to destroy people's marriages but I've never for once like the idea of letting people know your real worth, and this includes your spouse, not until you are so sure that your spouse are for real, I mean, a man knows his family more than anyone, but that's not always the case, if you are the one that got married to someone after you already in money you have to be cautious, maybe what you had isn't for real, you won't know, ladies of today get married not because of love but because of what they can achieve from marrying the man, if you have to come into the light with your wife about your worth, make sure it's the one third of your worth..

I see everything wrong in someone pretending to love someone just to be able to take over their properties, this is why I don't want to leave this country and go to US because this is very common in the US, I can't live with myself sharing my properties with someone that have pretend to love me all this while, it's never going to happen on my watch.

My thought is that this folk is not smart at all, if he did, he would have been more clever in hiding his Bitcoin. For this to have been discovered by the wife's hunter might mean that the guy was not actually hiding anything as he might not just disclose it or he is just a novice in the business. Because, if I want to hide Bitcoin this day with my level of understanding now, it would be almost perfect as I would definitely use trusted third parties and still mix my coins before I would safely keep them. I wonder how the crypto hunter would be able to reach all the networks used in doing so.

It's painful if a divorce is making you pay more for a woman that is not worth it. Some women deserve it, but some don't just deserve it as they might have made your life miserable before the divorce. While some only married you just because of your fortune.

If i understood the news correctly, there's no indication the Bitcoin was bought using wife's money or money from shared spending/saving account. In that case, i fail to understand why would the wive demands 50% of husband's Bitcoin. Anyway, i don't see anything wrong by not revealing existence of non-shared things (whether it's Bitcoin or personal bank account).


It's not surprising since job called private detective/investigator exist. In addition there are many blockchain analysis service such as Chainalysis, although most of them aim government/cryptocurrency business as their customer rather than individual.

No one can prove of ownership if she cannot prove that he holds the private key of the wallet which have 12 BTC balance. If she only have snapshot of the balance well the husband can deny that and he will not be forced to split up the balance for just like that. This is the advantage of holding our other wealth on digital currency since we can deny that amount is in our position and you make their life to prove that especially if your wife us not worthy to get some share on your wealth.

Things are really getting more and more complicated with regard to this, and you might be able somewhat to hide and just make it your own if there's no evidence that you even have it in the first place. It's going to be hard to determine if it's really his and is able to go that far to know that it is yours.

So there's a job for that now? Like crypto hunters?

This is why you do not disclose your crypto stash to someone else, not even your spouse unless you trust them with your life or you believe that they aren't with you just for the money. The last one is very difficult to prove especially nowadays that a lot of people only want to exist and be showered with affection and pampered with material things. That is why I do not really agree to speed dating up to a marriage, not unless you know your soon-to-be spouse since childhood and you are sure that they won't flip the switch if it ever comes to that.

Hopefully though, the husband gets to keep whatever crypto he has for himself. It's bullshit that your spouse get to keep half of what you built way even before you guys met while the other doesn't really help add any value to your life in case you get separated.

Was that Bitcoin wallet a 2/2 multisig wallet? No, so how does she claim that 50% of it belongs to her? She is just a typical gold digger and the law of splitting everything that has been acquired since marriage is the worst law that has been created.

This is what I love about crypto wallets. If the owner knows keys or have saved them somewhere safely, despite the fact that his wife stole the Ledger hardware wallet, this man can still recover it.

This is another beautiful quote from that article.

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The only logical solution in this case and in every upcoming case is:
If wallet is a multisig 2/2 and the second multisig owner wife, then it should be split if both agrees but if wallet is not a multisig wallet and is owned by one person, then law shouldn't push the owner to send half of crypto to wife or husband.

Personally, I find this story very interesting and I would appreciate if you can keep us posted.
However, I think this will be a very tough but for the judge to crack. What if the man deny ownership of this BTC.
 Bottom line is that this case can go either way.

This is rude and uncalled for. Many persons would insult you for this but I would just pretend I didn't see this. I can see clearly that you've problems comprehending my post because there's no place in the post where I supported either of the couples.