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1492In 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 At the same time, they analyze the addresses of wallets where crypto assets could be withdrawn in order to track further transactions.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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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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1494Survey: 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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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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1495Remember 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.
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.
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1496The expert has published a practical guide on privacy in the cryptocurrency sector.
Vladimir S., a security researcher, has published detailed material on how to maintain privacy in the cryptocurrency environment in 2025. The author emphasized that modern blockchains have become transparent, and analytical companies have linked most addresses with real personalities. The main purpose of the article is to show which methods really work without excessive paranoia and allow you to hide financial connections. The author focuses on simple habits that increase the level of privacy, and warns that errors in OpSec lead to complete deanonymization of the user.
The main rule is the need to stop reusing the same address. Each new transaction to the old wallet reveals the full transaction history. The author recommends enabling automatic address generation and dividing them by roles: public for social media, long-term cold for storage, and several hot for daily activities. He separately notes that it is impossible to move funds between them directly, as this completely destroys privacy.
The article explains in detail why KYC platforms should be avoided for any private transactions. Wallets linked to Binance, Coinbase or Kraken after KYC are forever associated with a real name. The author recommends using centralized KYC platforms only as a forced entry and exit to fiat, but not for transactions. He lists the current anonymous services of 2025, including Bisq, Haveno, LocalMonero, NoOnes, Peach Bitcoin, as well as major instant exchangers SimpleSwap and FixedFloat, where identity verification is not required.
A separate section is dedicated to the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency, which the author calls the only truly private protocol. He explains that Bitcoin and Ethereum do not hide the sender and recipient, whereas Monero uses ring signatures, masked amounts, and one-time addresses. XMR remains the best private instrument, although commission and liquidity are not ideal. For Bitcoin, the author recommends using CoinJoin through Wasabi or JoinMarket, emphasizing that Whirlpool is no longer relevant after the 2024 investigations, and one CoinJoin session is not enough.
For Ethereum, the author advises using private Layer 2 (L2) networks and hidden pools. He highlights Railgun, Aztec and Nightfal among the most viable solutions. The expert also noted new standards like ERC-5564 and ERC-6538 stealth addresses, which are becoming a key tool for private transfers in 2025.
The researcher considers hardware wallets as a separate item. He emphasizes that Ledger, Trezor, Keystone and other devices should be used in complete isolation from the network.
(Everyone was tricked again. I didn't understand any of this. How can an ordinary drug dealer figure all this out?)
Vladimir S., a security researcher, has published detailed material on how to maintain privacy in the cryptocurrency environment in 2025. The author emphasized that modern blockchains have become transparent, and analytical companies have linked most addresses with real personalities. The main purpose of the article is to show which methods really work without excessive paranoia and allow you to hide financial connections. The author focuses on simple habits that increase the level of privacy, and warns that errors in OpSec lead to complete deanonymization of the user.
The main rule is the need to stop reusing the same address. Each new transaction to the old wallet reveals the full transaction history. The author recommends enabling automatic address generation and dividing them by roles: public for social media, long-term cold for storage, and several hot for daily activities. He separately notes that it is impossible to move funds between them directly, as this completely destroys privacy.
The article explains in detail why KYC platforms should be avoided for any private transactions. Wallets linked to Binance, Coinbase or Kraken after KYC are forever associated with a real name. The author recommends using centralized KYC platforms only as a forced entry and exit to fiat, but not for transactions. He lists the current anonymous services of 2025, including Bisq, Haveno, LocalMonero, NoOnes, Peach Bitcoin, as well as major instant exchangers SimpleSwap and FixedFloat, where identity verification is not required.
A separate section is dedicated to the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency, which the author calls the only truly private protocol. He explains that Bitcoin and Ethereum do not hide the sender and recipient, whereas Monero uses ring signatures, masked amounts, and one-time addresses. XMR remains the best private instrument, although commission and liquidity are not ideal. For Bitcoin, the author recommends using CoinJoin through Wasabi or JoinMarket, emphasizing that Whirlpool is no longer relevant after the 2024 investigations, and one CoinJoin session is not enough.
For Ethereum, the author advises using private Layer 2 (L2) networks and hidden pools. He highlights Railgun, Aztec and Nightfal among the most viable solutions. The expert also noted new standards like ERC-5564 and ERC-6538 stealth addresses, which are becoming a key tool for private transfers in 2025.
The researcher considers hardware wallets as a separate item. He emphasizes that Ledger, Trezor, Keystone and other devices should be used in complete isolation from the network.
(Everyone was tricked again. I didn't understand any of this. How can an ordinary drug dealer figure all this out?)
Wow! It's absolutely amazing! 