Torture for Bitcoin: When Crypto Gets Brutally Real

It’s one thing to know that each password can be stolen by kidnapping a person knowing the passwords and then “convincing” them to reveal it. But really reading that it (very likely) happened … feels strange.

I just read an heise article (Um Bitcoin zu stehlen: US-Kryptoinvestor hat wohl wochenlang Touristen gefoltert), citing an NBC-article (Crypto trader tortured Italian man in NYC home in bid to steal his bitcoin).

Oh well, that’s one of the services that traditional banks do. Making suchthings harder. Maybe not fully impossible, but harder than “enter password”.