{"id":684394,"date":"2025-08-11T02:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/at-least-1-bitcoiner-gets-kidnapped-every-week-crypto-exec\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T02:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:30:25","slug":"at-least-1-bitcoiner-gets-kidnapped-every-week-crypto-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/at-least-1-bitcoiner-gets-kidnapped-every-week-crypto-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 1 Bitcoiner gets kidnapped every week \u2014 Crypto exec"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alena Vranova said that personal safety measures should not be ignored by Bitcoin and crypto investors with modest holdings.<\/p>\n

Alena Vranova, founder of SatoshiLabs, warned of the increase in wrench attacks, physical assaults and abductions carried out against Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto holders in an attempt to steal their private keys.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery week, there is a Bitcoiner, at least one in the world, who gets kidnapp<\/a>ed, tortured, extorted, and sometimes even worse,\u201d Vranova told<\/a> the audience at the Baltic Honeybadger 2025 conference in Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n

She warned that even small crypto investors can be on the radar of violent criminals looking for a target. She added:<\/p>\n

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Alena Vranova said that personal safety measures should not be ignored by Bitcoin and crypto investors with modest holdings. Alena Vranova, founder of SatoshiLabs, warned of the increase in wrench attacks, physical assaults and abductions carried out against Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto holders in an attempt to steal their private keys. \u201cEvery week, there is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":684395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-08\/019895ca-822d-7536-b249-415217a88d05","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74867,74862,74894,74932,76978,70375],"class_list":["post-684394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-altcoin","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-crimes","tag-cybercrime","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}