Quote from: angrybirdy on February 05, 2024, 11:39:35 AM

Quote from: bitzizzix on January 21, 2024, 01:55:26 PM

I became worried and found it difficult to answer after my friend asked me scary and ridiculous questions about Bitcoin ownership.
he asked. If friends, new acquaintances, or other people find out that you have a sizable amount of Bitcoin, and you don't tell them. Then you are kidnapped with several people covering their faces, with the aim of getting your wallet address with the risk that if you don't give it you will be killed.
And another reason, you have given your wallet address to members you trust, such as family members or your wife and children.

And I want to know, what are you going to do.
Aren't you going to give the bad guy your wallet address, and you let him get killed. However, your Bitcoins remain safe because you have given your wallet address to someone you trust.
Or you will give it away because you still want to live, and you don't have any more Bitcoins.

And it was just a casual conversation with a friend of mine who both owns Bitcoin, and I was just wondering what other people's answers to this dreaded question made me want to create a thread.

This is where you will learn how important privacy is, the kind that you don't let even small details know or don't give out a hint that you have a bitcoin holding, especially on social media, because there are many people behind the accounts who are spying in the actions and movements of people on their accounts. Let's go back to your question OP, if I'm in the situation and my life is at stake, I still can't decide whether to fight or just let the kidnappers get my wallet add...I don't know what to do either but maybe the initial action I will take is to give the wallet add though I don't have much bitcoin on that wallet. My life is more important to me because I know that the money will come back to me in a triple amount of what I lose.

It is such a weird feeling to me that people would go around telling people that they have money. I mean don't get me wrong I am not rich so I can't understand, if one day I become rich maybe I would understand why rich people say they are rich.

However, if you ask me right now as not a rich person, if I ever got rich then I would not tell anyone ever, it would be impossible for anyone to figure out I am rich, not even my spouse, I would live a great life with them, they would know that we are not poor, and I would just pay for stuff, but not crazy stuff, telling your wife that you can afford that 800 dollar phone, is not the same as telling her you have 2 million dollars, if you tell her you can get the phone then you get the phone, but if you tell her you have money, it's all gone in a year. So, always be careful.