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After a Violent Kidnapping, Crypto Elites Hire Bodyguards
A spate of abductions has sent crypto executives and wealthy investors in search of ways to protect themselves.
Over time, crypto organizations have taken steps to dilute the risk associated with self-custody, including by storing coins in special wallets that require the signature of multiple people for any transactions to take place. “These guys are like rockstars in the world that they move in,” says Darrell M. Blocker, who founded personal security company DMB Consulting Services after retiring from a long career as a high-ranking CIA operative. In rare cases, if a client is travelling to a particularly dangerous region, that might involve laying on armed escorts and bulletproof vehicles, or even paying off gangs and cartels that control particular territories, claims Blocker.
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