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In San Francisco, $11 million was stolen from the owner of cryptocurrencies.

The incident in San Francisco (USA) has become one of the largest cases of physical robbery of a crypto owner in a year. According to the police report, the attacker used a courier's uniform to gain access to the house and used a weapon to force the owner of the digital currencies to comply with his demands. The criminal tied up the victim with duct tape and demanded data from the crypto wallet, and also took the phone and laptop. Police said the crime occurred around 6:45 a.m. in the Mission Dolores neighborhood near the intersection of 18th and Dolores Streets. Information about the victim and his state of health is not disclosed.

Experts note that such cases are becoming part of a global trend called wrench attacks, and their number is growing. The researchers point out that criminals are increasingly choosing physical pressure, as it allows them to quickly gain access to cryptocurrencies without having to hack into devices. At the same time, victims find themselves in an extremely vulnerable position, because such attacks bypass most digital security systems. Crime investigations are becoming more complicated due to the rapid withdrawal of funds.

Cyber consultant David Sehen Baek said that the investigation of such cases is usually conducted in several directions at once. In the first 24-72 hours, experts try to track stolen devices and gain access to the activity of intruders. At the same time, they analyze the addresses of wallets where crypto assets could be withdrawn in order to track further transactions. Experts call this period critically important, as money can be transferred to anonymous services in a matter of minutes. However, the return of stolen funds in such situations is extremely rare.
Security researcher Jameson Lopp reported that the number of wrench attacks this year exceeded 60 cases, which is almost 2 times more than last year. He notes that crimes occur all over the world and target private users who publicly demonstrate ownership of cryptocurrencies.


A Russian detonated two grenades in the office of a crypto exchange

An unsuccessful robbery attempt occurred at an apartment hotel at 43/12 Khersonskaya Street, the police said. A young unemployed man from the Leningrad region entered the office of an exchange, lit a smoke bomb and detonated two airsoft stun grenades. Then he began to threaten the staff of the exchanger and demanded that all available crypto assets be immediately transferred to the e-wallet address indicated by him.

Detachments of the patrol and guard service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the non-departmental security of the Russian Guard arrived at the scene. They detained the man on the spot, without resistance. During the search, the security forces seized two more similar grenades. Explosives experts examined the devices and classified them as replicas created for airsoft and posing no real danger.


Michael Saylor: Bitcoin's volatility is a gift

The founder of Strategy, the largest public corporate holder of bitcoin, urged investors to be patient when buying the first cryptocurrency. According to Sailor, you need to invest for at least four years, and preferably for ten years.

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Survey: Americans Prefer Cryptocurrency to gift cards for Holidays

The survey was conducted among more than 2,000 U.S. adults. According to the results, 31% of respondents consider digital assets to be less at risk of remaining unused, unlike traditional gift cards and certificates. 23% of respondents said that if they have a cryptocurrency, they are ready to use it for purchases. Moreover, among the owners of digital assets, this figure is almost three times higher — 62%.

The survey participants highlighted the key advantages of cryptocurrencies as a gift:

The potential for digital asset value growth over time (58%);
the ability to choose the best time to pay for goods and services, as opposed to the fixed validity period of gift cards (54%);
simplicity and security of storing cryptocurrencies without physical media (49%).
However, 38% of Americans admitted that they still do not understand enough the mechanics of paying for goods with cryptocurrency and consider this form technically difficult for themselves.



Charles Hoskinson announced the culprits of the collapse of the crypto market

Hoskinson suspects that large companies have become the main driving force behind the decline of the crypto market, "using the tactics of pumping and dumping" (pump and dump) digital assets on their balance sheets. According to the businessman, companies like Citadel artificially inflated the prices of cryptocurrencies they bought before getting rid of them en masse, provoking a market collapse. By opening short positions to reduce the price, such companies have made huge profits worth tens of billions of dollars from their aggressive speculation, suggested the founder of Cardano.

As a result, market makers found themselves in a difficult position, retail investors suffered losses, and the crypto market is still trying to survive the upheaval. The dominance of several greedy companies and wide leverage has made the crypto market vulnerable, Hoskinson complained. In his opinion, retail investors have not learned their lesson from the bullish rally of 2021.
The entrepreneur expects bitcoin to reach $250,000 by the end of 2026.

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Remember years ago when I was writing about Covid and then about the Covid vaccine and all the foaming at the mouth vitriolic hate pushback I got?

The thing was though that I was perfectly happy with everything I wrote because none of it was pulled out of my arse. All I did was search the ground and picked up verifiable evidence that I was able to fit into a sequence.

I said at the time that the PCR test was rigged to give a massive percentage of false positives. And I said at the time that the mRNA vaccine could not possibly be ‘safe’ or ‘effective’.

People didn’t like that it showed the government narrative as being completely fake. 80% of the population got the jab, 50% because they believed and 30% because they were just desperate to get on with their lives.

It’s taken years for MSM to come around to (kind of) admitting they were spewing lies for the government.

I must admit I was shocked at the depth of the psy-ops against the public, I don’t think there was anything done on such a scale ever before.

The fact is that the modern MSM news just cannot be trusted, they are totally captured by the western oligarchy. Back in the late 1990s Noam Chomsky (writer of the US political left) was interviewed by top BBC reporter Andrew Marr (search YouTube for vid). Chomsky asserted Marr was part of the ‘system’ corrupting investigative journalism, Marr rebuffed and asked Chomsky ‘how could he know’, Chomsky said ‘I know because you’re sitting in that chair’.

During the latest BBC scandal (involving a report they did on Trump) the BBC were adamant they were definitely, absolutely not biased at all.

That’s despite a recent poll of BBC employees which showed they were all left of centre on the political spectrum, there were no centralists and no one right of centre at all.

See how easy it is to fool yourself. Just put yourself in a bubble with like minded people and let the bubble be your whole world.