Crypto King Fights Back: Australian Billionaire Bites Off Kidnapper’s Finger in Daring Escape

Talk about a hostile takeover—Australia’s crypto mogul just turned the tables on his would-be kidnappers… with his teeth.

When attackers ambushed the unnamed billionaire (because what’s a crypto story without some anonymity?), they didn’t account for his killer instinct—literally. The victim chomped down on an assailant’s digit so hard, it became a bloody exit strategy.

Security experts call it ‘extreme close-quarter negotiation.’ We call it the most bullish self-custody move since Satoshi’s whitepaper.

Meanwhile, traditional finance bros are still debating whether to approve his wire transfer request.

Crypto kidnapping cases surge

Over the past months, several high-profile kidnapping cases have spooked crypto investors worldwide. In one case from May, two crypto investors in Manhattan were arrested for holding an Italian man captive in a luxury townhouse for 17 days in an attempt to gain access to his Bitcoin wallet.

Another incident was reported in Florida, where three teenagers were charged with kidnapping and robbing a crypto event host of $4 million in digital assets and NFTs.

Particularly, France has witnessed a surge in crypto kidnapping activity. Earlier this year, police intervened in a separate case involving the mutilation of a crypto investor’s father and the attempted abduction of the daughter of a Paris-based exchange CEO. Both incidents were traced to the same network. 

Authorities in France have since arrested multiple suspects, including a man believed to be the ringleader, who was captured in Morocco.