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by throw0101b 398 days ago
> Flashing your wealth on social media or being a high profile executive is dangerous, crypto-ties or not.

Given the finite quantity that many cryptocurrencies can create, I'm curious if another 'attack' will become popular at one point: destruction.

If only x units / tokens and be generated, if you can destroy or otherwise make inaccessible some quantity, then the ones you already own should become more valuable. So perhaps in the future we'll find the kidnappers change from demanding a transfer to demanding destruction, so the perpetrator's own holdings grow in value.