„Schraubenschläge“ sind schockierend und gewalttätig. Es wird nur noch schlimmer.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/06/crypto-news-wrench-attacks-nyc-kidnapping-crime-rise.html
„Schraubenschläge“ sind schockierend und gewalttätig. Es wird nur noch schlimmer.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/06/crypto-news-wrench-attacks-nyc-kidnapping-crime-rise.html
13 Kommentare
Wrench attacks? That’s nuts.
It goes without saying, DON’T SPEAK TO ANYONE ABOUT YOUR CRYPTO PORTFOLIO.
Discuss price and projects if you want to, but never discuss or confirm holdings.
tldr; The article discusses the rise of ‚wrench attacks,‘ where criminals use physical violence to force cryptocurrency holders to reveal their wallet passkeys. A recent case in New York involved a crypto investor tortured for 17 days. These attacks, often involving kidnapping and torture, are increasing as Bitcoin’s value rises. Experts attribute this to the public nature of crypto ownership and the ease of targeting individuals compared to traditional banking systems. Crypto holders are advised to enhance security and avoid flaunting their wealth publicly.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
Be your own bank!
Don’t flex… or simply don’t have anything to flex like me.
Handy reference list created/maintained by Jameson Lopp, you can contribute to the list f there is a verified attack not already on there:
https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md
We should just ban wrenches.
Learn self defence my friends, dog eat dog world out there, as it should be
Damn, luckily i only lose money in crypto so i guess i’m safe.
You definitely need to be careful, but to be fair, there’s only been a total of 17 similar „wrench attacks“ cases, since the existence of Bitcoin in the last 16 years, in the entire world.
That’s fewer wrench attacks in the entire world in 16 years, than bank robberies in just the US in a single year, by a very large margin.
You can also look at just a single US city, and the numbers in a single year in just one city of violence and assault in jewelry theft, and it also dwarfs Bitcoin’s numbers in its entire existence for the entire world.
And these also involve kidnapping, tying up jewelry store clerks, assault, etc…
You still have to be careful with BTC.
But it’s definitely easier to find ways to be discrete about your BTC holdings.
It was obvious this was going to happen at some point.
I cant believe how dumb the crypto community and especially ambassadors were, like for example Mike Saylor going around publicly anouncing u can just remember your seedphrase worth millions.
Crazy that Hal Finney was one of the first ones being attacked.