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How to Not Get Kidnapped for Your Bitcoinwww.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/business/how-to-not-get-kidnapped-for-your-bitcoin.html
395 sats \ 4 comments \ @Coinsreporter 20h bitcoin
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NYT still don't know how to avoid the use of 'C' words in articles, while putting the 'B' in the title.
Nonetheless they are trying to suggest that Bitcoiners don't need to hide their faces behind ziptites anymore, instead they should learn to kick in the knees (*why not in the testicles?), or in the clavicle (*again why not in the nose?).
Still, even the most sophisticated protection can’t eliminate every angle of attack. Sometimes self-defense is necessary.
What if the attackers take you on a gunpoint?
Anyways, I think this hiding of faces (for whatever reasons) is actually a barrier, which stops Bitcoin (or Bitcoiners) getting some extra publicity.
I suppose there are more Bitcoiners (as the MCap for it suggests). If all somehow valiently come out of the shadows and start promoting it openly, the purpose for which Bitcoin was created can be achieved sooner imo.
Okay that's my less than 2 sats opinion on it. Please share what do you think?
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111 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 18h
The big Bitcoiners, those who move 30,000 BTC, nobody knows who they are, and it could be your neighbor driving an old car.
Personally, I think it's perfectly legal and cool to wear a Bitcoin t-shirt, but I think it's much safer to go about your life as if you didn't have Bitcoin in it.
The best Bitcoiner is the one nobody knows is a Bitcoiner.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 14h
We want more adoption but want to remain private. Seems contradictory but necessary.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 16h
i recently thought about the "at gunpoint" scenarios too: #1278966
My impression is, the Butcoin communitys overwhelming opinion is : secrecy. Don't get into the gunpoint situation in the first place.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 18h
in the clavicle (*again why not in the nose?)
If you've never broken your clavicle, then you know how debilitating it is to lose the structural integrity of one. As a person with a plate that was installed to return structure to my clavicle after a catastrophic skiing accident, I can assure you it will be my 1st target for disabling an attacker if I should ever be selected for attack.
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