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The NYT follows Mitch Moxley's report on the wrench attack on the Veer Chetal's parents (They Stole a Quarter-Billion in Crypto and Got Caught Within a Month) with David Yaffe-Bellany's How to Not Get Kidnapped for Your Bitcoin:
"It was precisely that kind of situation that the investors in Lugano were desperate to avoid. They had gathered for a daylong “counter-kidnapping” workshop that was scheduled for the end of the Plan B conference, an annual Bitcoin gathering sponsored by Tether, one of the world’s biggest crypto firms.
The workshop’s organizer, Alena Vranova, an entrepreneur based in Prague, has conducted extensive research on wrench attacks, compiling data on the disturbing pattern of abductions.
“We have a surging epidemic of physical violence against crypto people,” Ms. Vranova said in an interview. “We are at one kidnapping and extortion per week. That’s quite brutal.”
Arguably the most gruesome assault came in January when David Balland, a founder of the crypto hardware firm Ledger, was kidnapped with his wife from their home in France. The attackers cut off one of Mr. Balland’s fingers and circulated an image of the mutilated appendage, demanding ransom paid in crypto."
Note that Vranova was promoting her new company Glok and Yaffe-Bellany seems to have bean simply a stenographer. Note that he din't acknowledge Jamison Lopp.
Nov 18, 2025, 6:20:01 PM
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