Bitcoin Physical Attacks getting more serious

[Similificator]

Thisbis really scary. This is why most of the people are afraid to ask questions or socialize with other people even when they badly have the need to. And they should be. Nothing's wrong with that. I'd rather be called a scaredy cat than endanger my life or my funds. This is the problem with bitcoins not being that widely adopted yet. people just buy and buy without being properly educated about it and how to protect themselves and their bags.

[DeathAngel]

This is why Opsec is so important. If you even have a moderately sized position in bitcoin you need to keep it quiet. No bragging, no social media profiles alluding to your bitcoin success. Keep quiet, release no personal info & good luck, stay safe.

[dkbit98]

First known Bitcoin armed robbery just happened in Pakistan, Gujranwala police arrested two suspects for forcing Swiss and German citizens to transfer them over $1 million in bitcoin, and tricking them into making an investment with Bitcoin.
They invited Stephen and Maria to Lahore, kidnapped them from hotel with few other people and they sprinkled heroin on them and threatened to expose them as drug dealers if they don't pay them in Rs14.7 million in Bitcoin.
https://www.geo.tv/latest/335861-gujranwala-police-catch-two-suspects-in-pakistans-first-bitcoin-robbery-case

Again, why would you be so stupid trusting random man from Pakistan for some investement and telling them you have Bitcoin?
What is the lesson from this and other similar cases:
- If you have Bitcoin, don't brag about it.

[androyster]

List of known attacks against people who own Bitcoin and crypto assets are getting bigger every day, as we can see in Jameson Lopp github page.
Who knows how many similar unknown attacks are happening all the time but they never got published for various reasons, maybe victims are scared, they don't want publicity and they just never report the crime.
It would be a good idea to go through this previous cases and learn from their examples how to avoid getting attacked for owning Bitcoin.

Only this years there was four known attack on people, two of them happened in Hong Kong, and other two happened in Europe, one in Poland and other one in Sweden.

4 people out of millions is a pretty good statistic for safety if you ask me.  And who knows what those large investors did to get their BTC stolen.

[matjas]

That is pretty scary indeed. There is still bunch of people who are publicly bragging about how many BTC they own. I am very sorry about those individuals whos addressed were leaked by ledger hack. Imagine making a breakthrough from early investing in a county with low income and then being in danger because of Ledger incompetence.