Texas Sheriffs Bust Open Bitcoin ATM With Power Tools—$32K in Crypto Recovered
When brute force meets blockchain: Texas law enforcement took an angle grinder to a Bitcoin ATM in a high-stakes hardware heist.
No passcodes? No problem. Sheriff's deputies bypassed digital security the old-fashioned way—sheer mechanical destruction—to recover $32,000 in trapped crypto. The machine's cold wallet never stood a chance against cordless tools and probable cause.
Modern problems, medieval solutions. While crypto purists scream 'not your keys, not your coins,' local authorities proved that when fiat-backed warrants collide with decentralized finance, the drill bits win. Just another day where physical meets digital—with 20V DeWalt as the universal private key.
Bonus jab: At least this ATM didn't charge a 15% 'convenience fee' like your neighborhood crypto kiosk.
