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If someone pointed a weapon at me, I'd hand them my phone. There's nothing life-threateningly important on my phone. Whatever they do with it is better than death.


Unfortunately some people might try to do the math of losing their life savings vs. losing their life. Big downside of using a money system (eg: cryptocurrency) you can't reverse.


When I read this, I thought "come on, does that really happen?"

https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks




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