After a wave of attacks on well -known people from the cryptocurrency industry, Didi Taihuttu and his Bitcoin Family changed the method of securing their cryptocurrencies. It is probably impossible to be safer anymore.
Bitcoin Family additionally protects its bitcoins
The family, which became famous for their investment in Bitcoin in 2017, decided to increase the safety of their cryptocurrencies. She hid fragments of her private keys on four continents.
Taihuttu said CNBC that thanks to this, in the event of a potential attack, he would be able to pay the hijackers only what he has on the smartphone’s wallet.
Even if someone put my weapon to my head, I can’t give him more than what I have in my wallet or phone. And this is not much
– he said.
The private key of the family has been divided into four parts and, as Taihuttu admitted, is now hidden in different places on four continents. The characters that make up the key were engraved on special fire -resistant metal plates. The tiles, in turn, are placed in additionally secured places.
The “bitcoin family” itself leads a nomadic lifestyle, traveling around the world to promote Bitcoin. Due to the growing threat to cryptocurrency owners (about this in a moment), Taihuttu admitted that the family no longer publishes updates about their location in real time. He added that about 65% of the family’s assets are now stored in a cold wallet. Their hot wallets are used for active trading and paying daily expenses. They are secured by a portfolio that requires a few signatures.
Kidnapping Bitcoin fans
Everything happens at a time when we are increasingly hearing about the kidnapping of people who are known on the cryptocurrency market. For example, in Great Britain there was a kidnapping, torture and robbed of an investor. In February this year. Six men kidnapped a family of three in Chicago, demanding that they transfer 15 million USD in cryptocurrencies.
In March, a streamer Kaitlyn Siragusa, known on the Internet as Amounth, was kidnapped in her own home. The kidnappers wanted to force them to send them digital assets.
On May 13, three masked men tried to kidnap the daughter and grandson Pierre Noizat, co -founder and general director of the French Cryptocurrency Stock Exchange. The suspects attacked a woman and her partner in the center of Paris.
