As bitcoin’s value shoots up, members of fringe anti-woman movements are advising each other to use the cryptocurrency to hide money during a divorce.
Bitcoin, a digital cryptocurrency, has skyrocketed in value this year, with the the price of one coin soaring past $15,000 this month. But some of bitcoin’s user base, which skews overwhelming male, is more worried about losing the newly valuable coins to their spouses than a market crash. For years, a subset of so-called men’s rights activists have advocated pouring money into bitcoin, to hide it during divorce proceedings. Now, with the spotlight on bitcoin, lawyers are catching on.
