Cryptocurrency executives and other investors with significant cryptography are becoming more serious about personal security, according to stories this weekend in both The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
Although cryptocurrencies have always created unique safety risks, it seems that there is a growing threat of violent kidnapping due to the growing value of Bitcoin, as well as new concerns later. Recent personal information from Coinbase customers.. (Coinbase said the rape affected less than 1% of its clients).
For example, three recently masked men tried to kidnap the daughter and granddaughter of the CEO of the French cryptocurrency company Paymium, just to be expelled by the residents of the family.
Jethro Pijlman, who works for the security firm and intelligence of intelligence based in Amsterdam Infinite Risks International, told Bloomberg that his team is seeing “more consultations, more long -term customers and more proactive applications of cryptographic investors that do not want to be surprised.”
Meanwhile, Coinbase revealed in a regulatory presentation that spent $ 6.2 million on personal security costs for his CEO Brian Armstrong last year, more than combined security costs for the CEO of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Nvidia.