Silly and scary questions, and what would you do if that were you.

[Adbitco]

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Also there is always the chance that the police will catch the kidnappers later and might recover some of our money. So, better not too tell strangers or people we don't trust how much money we have and where it's invested. There is no benefit from sharing all those information publicly and can only lead to problems for us in the long run.

If op understood the meaning of privacy then he would learn to be very careful while discussing with people about bitcoin or how much we have invested in bitcoin, In general whatever amount we have in our custody be it bank account we aren't meant to disclosed it to people be it family member because it brings unnecessary enviness to us and that is what raise to them planning to get you kidnapped because we were too open to tell them about our money, earnings, and investment worths.

We can be so less in relating with people about our general life aspect, and again we should be that dum in a way we can't use our common initiatives to work on why because anyone who got kidnapped can be free through his money and life is more precious than any other thing except such person doesn't value his life before going further making all sorts of arguments where he might got killed and after which whose then enjoys the money.

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[Z390]

It's for your own good if you keep your mouth shut and never talk about having any Bitcoin, and if you have done it already, telling many people in your area, just pray that they don't believe you, because if they do, you might be a target, it's better to abandon that area and find your home somewhere else, where not much people know you.
But why not just accept that precaution is better than cure? Instead of fearing for your life? It's better not to say anything related to Bitcoin, sooner or later people will catch up, all those that don't know about Bitcoin will eventually know about it, lets be mindful of what we feed the public, not every happy faces we see every morning are good people inside.

Bitcoin was meant to be kept in privacy manner, you cant be a Bitcoin millionaire and still live in a country where there are alot of insecurity, for example, like my country, i would rather leave and travel to another country but you should be fine if you keep your mouth shut.

[DeathAngel]

I have lots of Bitcoin addresses & a number of different types of devices I store my stash on. If I was kidnapped or tortured I’d give up one of the devices and say that’s all I had. If the kidnappers were dumb I might try & send money to the kidnappers Bitcoin address with a fee of 0 sat/byte, wait for them to leave, then when it doesn’t confirm, in a couple weeks it drops from the mempool & then it’s back in my wallet.

[bobbybkk]

Just thinking:

If someone really pisses you off you could spread rumours that the percon has a big amount on Bitcoins.

If this guy gets kidnapped  there are no Bitcoins he can hand over, because he has no...... could end with a very painful experience....

Curious when stories about this type of situation start to pop up

[tygeade]

I became worried and found it difficult to answer after my friend asked me scary and ridiculous questions about Bitcoin ownership.
he asked. If friends, new acquaintances, or other people find out that you have a sizable amount of Bitcoin, and you don't tell them. Then you are kidnapped with several people covering their faces, with the aim of getting your wallet address with the risk that if you don't give it you will be killed.
And another reason, you have given your wallet address to members you trust, such as family members or your wife and children.

And I want to know, what are you going to do.
Aren't you going to give the bad guy your wallet address, and you let him get killed. However, your Bitcoins remain safe because you have given your wallet address to someone you trust.
Or you will give it away because you still want to live, and you don't have any more Bitcoins.

And it was just a casual conversation with a friend of mine who both owns Bitcoin, and I was just wondering what other people's answers to this dreaded question made me want to create a thread.

This is where you will learn how important privacy is, the kind that you don't let even small details know or don't give out a hint that you have a bitcoin holding, especially on social media, because there are many people behind the accounts who are spying in the actions and movements of people on their accounts. Let's go back to your question OP, if I'm in the situation and my life is at stake, I still can't decide whether to fight or just let the kidnappers get my wallet add...I don't know what to do either but maybe the initial action I will take is to give the wallet add though I don't have much bitcoin on that wallet. My life is more important to me because I know that the money will come back to me in a triple amount of what I lose.

It is such a weird feeling to me that people would go around telling people that they have money. I mean don't get me wrong I am not rich so I can't understand, if one day I become rich maybe I would understand why rich people say they are rich.

However, if you ask me right now as not a rich person, if I ever got rich then I would not tell anyone ever, it would be impossible for anyone to figure out I am rich, not even my spouse, I would live a great life with them, they would know that we are not poor, and I would just pay for stuff, but not crazy stuff, telling your wife that you can afford that 800 dollar phone, is not the same as telling her you have 2 million dollars, if you tell her you can get the phone then you get the phone, but if you tell her you have money, it's all gone in a year. So, always be careful.

[bolshojkush]

I became worried and found it difficult to answer after my friend asked me scary and ridiculous questions about Bitcoin ownership.
he asked. If friends, new acquaintances, or other people find out that you have a sizable amount of Bitcoin, and you don't tell them. Then you are kidnapped with several people covering their faces, with the aim of getting your wallet address with the risk that if you don't give it you will be killed.
And another reason, you have given your wallet address to members you trust, such as family members or your wife and children.

And I want to know, what are you going to do.
Aren't you going to give the bad guy your wallet address, and you let him get killed. However, your Bitcoins remain safe because you have given your wallet address to someone you trust.
Or you will give it away because you still want to live, and you don't have any more Bitcoins.

And it was just a casual conversation with a friend of mine who both owns Bitcoin, and I was just wondering what other people's answers to this dreaded question made me want to create a thread.

You need to have several wallets, one is the main one, the other is for robbers, which has bitcoins, but there are not as many of them as on the main wallet. Then I think you can outsmart them.