Italian crypto tycoon Michel, worth 200 million RMB, invited by American 'Crypto King' John to New York for business talks. As soon as he entered a luxury apartment in Manhattan, his passport and phone were stolen. Former partners brandished guns and demanded: 'Hand over the Bitcoin password!'
Purgatory Chronicles
Tied hands with wires and electrocuted; refusal to reveal the password leads to being hung at the edge of the 5th floor.
Forced drug injection, humiliating photos with guns printed on T-shirts.
Kidnappers use a chainsaw to mutilate limbs: 'If you don't give the password, we'll dismember you!'
After being imprisoned for 24 days, Michel escaped barefoot, bloodied, and ran to the street for help. Police raided the mansion and confiscated.
Chainsaw / Drugs / Over a dozen weapons
Photos of the victim being tortured, real-time tracking electronic shackles
Global Alarm
French cryptocurrency mogul extorted for 40 million after finger amputation, Spanish broker kidnapped but fortunately escaped. Criminologists warn: Violent coercion for keys has become a new crime mode.
Truth
The blockchain can secure digital assets, but it cannot protect the life of the key holder when a criminal's wrench strikes their finger, causing the belief in decentralization to collapse in an instant.
Survival rule: Personal safety > Asset safety. Check criminal records of partners before meeting. Beware of the 'industry moguls' halo. The kidnappers in this case have private jets and leave traces through cross-border transfers, while traditional financial regulation ironically becomes a protective charm.
When wealth turns into a string of codes, have our bodies become the most vulnerable keys? The answer lies not in cryptographic algorithms, but in everyone's adherence to the bottom line of greed.
Lessons from a blood-stained Manhattan:
In the dark forest of digital currency
True beasts never need to crack passwords.
They directly break the fingers of those holding the keys.
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