The Blockspace Pod: How to Protect Yourself from a Crypto Kidnapping
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Just last year was the most violent year on record for crypto and Bitcoin related physical attacks. |
| 0:05.7 | Not just fishing, but like actual home invasions, actual kidnappings. |
| 0:10.1 | Half of those involved like violence and torture. |
| 0:13.6 | And you have the ability specifically with Bitcoin to have really secure multisic and time decaying or time expanding setups that give you |
| 0:23.2 | such an amazing amount of redundancy and levels of security that no custodian can provide |
| 0:29.5 | to you. You can do this with like 400 bucks of like consumer grade hardware and a minisccript |
| 0:34.8 | wallet that requires you to have a lot of co-signers. |
| 0:38.5 | With minisccripts, you can have these time properties, |
| 0:41.4 | and they're not enforced by a company. |
| 0:43.0 | You can have Bitcoin, Maltisic, natively, |
| 0:46.2 | something that most chains can't do. |
| 0:49.8 | There were over 74 documented physical attacks |
| 0:53.7 | against Bitcoin owners last year. This is up |
| 0:57.3 | 70% from 2024. Yes, the criminals are stopping at nothing, not even kidnapping, cutting off |
| 1:04.1 | fingers, and in some cases even death. They want your Bitcoin. Maybe the risk isn't a wrench attack, but rather your own forgetfulness and accidents. |
| 1:14.9 | I have an expert on all these topics, Chris, who has a company which specializes in products which reduce your surface risk area. |
| 1:23.6 | Blockspace is brought to you by CleanSpark. |
| 1:26.0 | Let's kick it off. |
| 1:39.2 | Hey, Charlie here. Guess what? We just announced our next Bitcoin Technical Conference, Op Next. |
| 1:45.2 | That's right, y'all. Op. Next is back for 2026. We're running it back after a successful event at strategies HQ in tyson's virginia last year and this year we are bringing it to the big apple at the iconic |
| 1:51.1 | time center in midtown manhattan we're hosting the big names and projects that you recognize like |
| 1:56.8 | robin linas of bit vm nick jonas of block stream antoine puinsot of ChainCode Labs, and Calais of BitChat will also be present. |
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