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Please help with recovery for at risk assets

  • 13-01-2025 02:27PM
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    I purchased BTC in 2013 and ETH in 2016, 2017 onwards.

    At one stage in 2017 I figured there was enough here that it was worth protecting so I moved the vast majority of my assets from an Exchange to a Trezor.

    I secured the Trezor in a safe place in the family home, and committed the seed to a cryptosteel type of sheet of metal.

    I recently am going through a rather adversarial and nasty marital separation where my (soon to be ex) wife and her family had unattended access to the entire property. The Trezor (among other items/ documents) is now missing. I made the schoolboy error of also keeping the seed on paper and the Trezor PIN (although not in plaintext, it was via a cypher but not a very sophisticated one) in the house and that is also missing. Both are missing from what I perceived to be a very safe place. There was almost no risk that anyone else could accidentally stumble on these items in the property so the strong likelihood is that either she or her family has taken them (perhaps to try dissipate the assets or perhaps just for safekeeping but they are denying any knowledge of the Trezor whilst admitting to removing documents that were stored in that same place).

    Upon discovery of this removal, the Gardai were called to the scene but they refused to force my wife to disclose what was in the bag that she removed from the property (it was sitting on the front seat of her car), despite my repeated requests for them to force disclosure even to them, and my protestations that there was clear evidence of a crime (this was all captured on CCTV and shown to the Gardai but they refused to help and as I've discovered will almost always side with a crying woman).

    The assets still appear on chain to be untouched, no transactions have taken place however I fear that may happen soon once they figure out how to transact or find someone who does.

    I have disclosed all assets to my solicitor so I'm not trying to hide anything but I desperately want to secure these assets from theft by moving them to my exchange account (which is already part of my full financial disclosure).

    I purchased a new trezor and tried to recover the wallet using the seed on steel but it has failed on every attempt. I can't believe that I would have written the seed down incorrectly, but the trezor did have a PIN (which I do remember) and I didn't see anywhere to enter that as part of either the standard or advanced recovery process.

    Can anyone advise, or offer any help?
    Throwaway for obvious reasons but I've been a reader of this forum for a long long time. Thanks.



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