This is good news despite disappointment with their actions. This means that this incident has been planned from the beginning to the victim.
Luckily the life did not disappear even though the finger might be mutilated.
Indeed, in that country it turns out that like in the world of cinema, there are still many crime rates that require a hero as the main character.

It's not issue if they accept legal immigrants, but they allowed many illegal immigrants to stay in their countries. Problems are from illegal immigrants who don't want to obey laws, and adapt to cultures of a new country.

Government in France seems to be weak and they are friendly with illegal immigrants because they don't want to lose votes. They want votes, and ignore issues that are bigger and more serious with time in their nation.

Nowadays, it's really hard to find a project with anonymous founder and Ethereum, Binance with their renowned CEOs are examples. Projects with anonymous founders nowadays can be assessed as high risk of scam projects. It is easier to stay anonymous as users, than as founders.

Its one of the prices of being one of the big names in the industry. Kidnappers are making a shift toward kidnapping people who they think hold substantial amounts of valueable coins and tokens. They thought that it is easy as they only needed their passphrase.
Its good to know that he is safe and the perpetrators are caught. I don't think this is going to be the last, and there may be unreported kinnapping of people involved in trading and investing in cryptocurrency, so enhancing your privacy and being discreet is very important.

This thread might serve to save some of our lives in the future. I was already on the fence about whether I wanted to ever become wealthy, and here is plenty of motivation to tame my goals and desires. 

The thing is, there is a position that you are going to occupy in the crypto space; either you are an exchange owner, a trader, a wallet developer, or whichever position that the public will know that you are rich, you can't hide yourself from being noticed. The only thing that you can do is to be going out with security to make sure that you are safe and mind the kind of place you go to in order to reduce this type of incident that is being discussed in this thread.

Waitasec....are you not of the belief that Ledger exposed the fact that users' private keys could be accessed by Ledger after the Recover update regardless of whether you signed up for the service or not?  That seems pretty clear to me and to a lot of the regulars in the Hardware Wallet section.

All of that aside, I would not have wished for any Ledger employee to get kidnapped and held for ransom not matter how much of a scammy company I think they are.  I skimmed the first few posts here quickly and saw that the guy lost a finger in the ordeal?  Those kidnappers weren't fucking around, eh?


Probably good advice there, but I could tell people I own some bitcoin and if they kidnapped me and found out the exact amount I had they'd probably forget the ransom, forget about stealing that laughable number of sats and just kill me.  To wit: it's all a matter of how rich you are and how many wealthy friends/family members you have who could pay to secure your release.