Stories like these make me wonder whether the death penalty for ppl who torture others should be reintroduced to work as additional deterrent!

death penalty is fundamental for improving the future mold of the society

what is the actionable advice one should take from this?

The most important thing you can do is STFU.

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?

There are two separate problems. 1) your privacy and operational security. Best to not get targeted in the first place. 2) the security of your key architecture in case you do get attacked.

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How to protect your bitcoin from $5 wrench attacks

If you want to be your own bank, you'll want bank-grade security measures. Thanks to technology we can surpass the physical security of a bank at a...

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...

Better stay anonymous