A Manager of the Exmo Bitcoin Exchange Has Been Kidnapped In Ukraine (bbc.com)

CaptainDork shares a report from BBC: A manager of the Exmo Bitcoin exchange has been kidnapped in Ukraine. According to Russian and Ukrainian media reports Pavel Lerner, 40, was kidnapped while leaving his office in Kiev's Obolon district on December 26th. The reports said he was dragged into a black Mercedes-Benz by men wearing balaclavas. Police in Kiev confirmed to the BBC that a man had been kidnapped on the day in question, but would not confirm his identity. A spokeswoman said that the matter was currently under investigation, and that more information would be made public later on. Mr Lerner is a prominent Russian blockchain expert and the news of his kidnapping has stunned many in the international cryptocurrency community.

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Someone should inform the kidnappers...

[Gravis Zero]

this is not how ransomware works. ;)

not surprised

[FudRucker]

go messing with the monopoly that the global central banking system has on the world's fiat currency and bad things are going to happen, look what happened to Lincoln for his green-backs, and JFK for executive order 1111, it was for trying to wrestle control of the monetary system away from the banking cartel that runs the world's currencies