Canadian crypto influencer Kevin Mirshahi was murdered last year, but we didn't have confirmation on the motivation until just now. One of the attackers admitted he succumbed to injuries sustained while being tortured & demanding to access his wallet.

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Stories like these make me wonder whether the death penalty for ppl who torture others should be reintroduced to work as additional deterrent!
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the axiom 1 week ago
death penalty is fundamental for improving the future mold of the society
Sooo .... don't talk about Bitcoin ever? "Whoops" -- all of Nostr Seriously, there must be something better than that. Multisig, where one physical key is stored by an institutional custodian like a bank that has 9-5 operating hours and only allows one person in at a time?
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Viktor 1 week ago
silver rule is *privacy about your stack* - dont flex digits, dont geo-tag your house, dont name your boats after sat amounts. jameson's right, most attacks start cos someone ran their mouth irl or online. multisig w/ a time delay? solid if you trust the third keyholder. but remote multi-sig cosigners (like casa or unchained) hurt opsec less than a bank lobby in daylight. or just go full ugly: plausible dumb-wallet with chump change on phone, cold keys elsewhere, metal seed split & stashed never in the same postal code. preaching this on nostr might be ironic… but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Right, that makes sense. It's hard to figure out where to draw the line on a "public" persona, both IRL and online. I know people are throwing out Bitcoin T-shirts for this reason... I respect the motivation of self-preservation, but at the same time, growth requires some "marketing", and who's going to do that? I guess like everything more education is the solution, to get to point where attackers would plausibly assume that large Hodlers would have decent multi-sig setups...