Episode 328: Crypto and Divorce: How to Uncover Digital Assets with Chris Groshong
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode we're talking about the complex issue of cryptocurrency and divorce, and to help unpack it, I brought in Chris Groshong. Chris made the leap from biotech to fintech when he founded CoinStructive back in 2015. Since then he's worked for crypto financial institutions and has helped hundreds of people track down crypto lost to scams, hacks, and yes, hidden in divorce.
If crypto feels confusing, secretive, or even a little bit shady to you, you're not alone. But as Chris explains, the blockchain is actually built on transparency. So once you know what to look for, it becomes a powerful tool for uncovering hidden assets.
In this conversation, we break down what crypto really is, how it shows up in divorce, and what steps you can take if you suspect it's being used to conceal money.
Here's what else we discuss in this episode:
- What cryptocurrency is and why understanding how it works is so important in the context of divorce (3:29)
- What the hell is the blockchain?? (4:56)
- Why crypto can be risky in divorce: people often forget that it's not just about gains, but losses too (21:26)
- Red flags that might signal your spouse is hiding crypto (think unexplainable withdrawals, hardware wallets, or sketchy apps) (24:56)
- How crypto investigations actually work and why they're often more successful than you'd think (44:49)
Learn more about Chris Groshong: Chris Groshong is a Certified Fraud Investigator who focuses on helping victims of cryptocurrency scams. He is also the Chief Compliance Officer for several crypto financial institutions including Bitcoin ATM operators, OTC exchanges, Wallet operators, DeFi platforms and more. He helps oversee money transmitter licensing and regulatory affairs for his clients at a fraction of the cost of attorneys.
He is a member of the CFCIA (California Financial Crimes Investigators Association), Government Blockchain Association, The Chamber of Digital Commerce, ABA (American Bar Association), ACFCS, ACFE, ACAMS, and has served as an Expert Witness in a Federal fraud case involving Bitcoin and Monero as well as several Divorce cases. He maintains a public-private partnership with the FBI through Infragard.
Chris is the Executive Director of the Crypto Recovery Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of crypto thefts and scams by providing Blockchain Forensics to victims who can't afford services, as well as access to low or no-cost Mental Health services and preventative education and training.
Resources & Links:
The Divorce Survival Guide Resource Bundle
Focused Strategy Sessions with Kate
Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective
Chris's website
Crypto Recovery Alliance
Chris on LinkedIn
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| 0:00.0 | When you start putting the blockchain forensics together, why we're usually very successful |
| 0:05.1 | is because the data is immutable. |
| 0:10.0 | It's because it's a publicly recorded ledger. |
| 0:12.5 | All I'm doing is pointing out what happened on there. |
| 0:15.1 | As soon as the other spouse sees that you know what they did, even if you don't have |
| 0:20.0 | 100% right, there's usually so much |
| 0:23.2 | evidence that they're just like, I don't want to explain my illegal dark net behavior. |
| 0:28.5 | I don't want to explain because now you've touched into the criminal element of things that |
| 0:33.9 | they shouldn't have been doing. So all of a sudden, they're like, I just want to settle and get this out of here. |
| 0:39.9 | Like, I'm going to have to pay you back 40 grand. |
| 0:42.3 | I'll figure it out. |
| 0:43.3 | But I don't want to go to jail. |
| 0:48.7 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, |
| 0:57.0 | divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go? |
| 1:02.5 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of the |
| 1:08.3 | roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your |
| 1:11.7 | toughest questions. I've been to hell and back. And now it's my mission in life to help you |
| 1:18.0 | get to the other side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 1:37.6 | Hey everyone, welcome back. So today we are talking about something that I hear a lot of talk about and I literally don't understand it. So yes, I'm talking about crypto. I just don't understand crypto, the blockchain, |
| 1:47.7 | all of this stuff, right? And it's really confusing to people like me, Gen X, people. And yet, |
| 1:58.0 | it's a really big deal in divorce. It needs to be accounted for in the division of assets. |
| 2:05.1 | And it's something that I don't want you guys to not be educated on. So I went and I found an |
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