Bitcoin Brutality: NYC Crypto Investor Faces Charges for Alleged Hostage Crypto-Password Extraction
When HODLing goes horribly wrong—a crypto trader faces kidnapping and torture charges after police say he resorted to medieval tactics to recover a Bitcoin password.
Law enforcement claims the investor crossed from diamond hands to iron fists, allegedly holding a man against his will for days in a twisted attempt to regain access to digital assets. Forget ’not your keys, not your coins’—this case rewrites the mantra as ’not your password, expect violence.’
The incident exposes crypto’s dark underbelly, where decentralized finance meets centralized brutality. Just another reminder that in the Wild West of digital assets, some investors will literally torture for alpha—proving Wall Street isn’t the only place where money brings out the worst in people.
