{"id":670017,"date":"2025-05-19T01:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/crypto-elite-increasingly-worried-about-their-personal-safety\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T01:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:36:16","slug":"crypto-elite-increasingly-worried-about-their-personal-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-elite-increasingly-worried-about-their-personal-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto elite increasingly worried about their personal safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cryptocurrency executives and other investors with significant wealth from crypto holdings are getting more serious about personal security, according to stories this weekend in both <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/currencies\/crypto-industry-robberies-attacks-32c2867a?st=sYvFNE&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share\">the Wall Street Journal<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-18\/crypto-high-rollers-go-big-on-bodyguards-to-deter-kidnappers\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While cryptocurrencies have always created unique security risks, it seems there\u2019s a rising threat of violent abduction due to the growing value of Bitcoin, as well as new concerns after a recent Coinbase breach exposed customers\u2019 personal information. (Coinbase said the breach affected less than 1% of its customers.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, three masked men recently attempted to abduct the daughter and granddaughter\u00a0of the CEO of French cryptocurrency company Paymium, only to be driven off by the family\u2019s neighbors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jethro Pijlman, who works for Amsterdam-based security and intelligence firm Infinite Risks International, told Bloomberg that his team is seeing \u201cmore inquiries, more long-term clients, and more proactive requests from crypto investors who don\u2019t want to be caught off guard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Coinbase revealed in a regulatory filing that it spent $6.2 million in personal security costs for its CEO Brian Armstrong last year \u2014 more than the combined security costs for the CEOs of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Nvidia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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