CZ Speaks on Bitcoin’s Darkest Self-Custody Nightmare: $172M Vanishes in a Marriage Turned Spy War
UK businessman Ping Fai Yuen claims his estranged wife used home CCTV cameras to capture his Trezor recovery phrase and drain 2,323 Bitcoin (BTC), now worth roughly $172 million. The case, filed as Ping Fai Yuen v Fun Yung Li & Anor [2026] EWHC 532 (KB), reached the High Court of England and Wales on March 10, 2026. How a Marriage Became a Surveillance Operation Yuen stored his BTC in a Trezor hardware wallet protected by a PIN and 24-word seed phrase. His wife, Fun Yung Li, allegedly installed covert CCTV cameras in their Brighton home and recorded him entering the phrase
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