Late at evening on March 2, fashionable streamer Amouranth, whose actual identify is Kaitlyn Siragusa, made a sequence of posts on X saying she was the topic of a house invasion by robbers who “needed crypto is what they have been yelling.”
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In November 2024, Amouranth posted a screenshot from her Coinbase account exhibiting she held round 211 Bitcoin (BTC), which was price $20 million on the time. The screenshot additionally confirmed she held round $80,000 in Ether (ETH).
She posted an replace on March 3, hours after the preliminary X posts, the place she mentioned there have been three gunmen, including a video presumably from a safety digicam. After allegedly main the three males to a different part of the property, three loud noises ring out, and the three males run off digicam.
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Amouranth is thought for being open about her funds, showing on a YouTube private finance present and sharing her earnings from varied platforms. She rose to prominence on Twitch, the place she was the most-watched feminine streamer in 2021 and 2022. Just lately, she made headway into creator platform OnlyFans.
String of high-profile “crypto wrench” assaults
Crypto wrench assaults, when a crypto holder is threatened with bodily drive to show over their cash, have made their manner via the information cycle in 2025 with quite a lot of high-profile incidents.
In January, a Canadian volunteer moderator of a crypto discussion board went into hiding after kidnappers allegedly tried to abduct him and drive him to switch his Bitcoin.
On Jan. 21, David Balland, the co-founder of Ledger, was reportedly kidnapped from his residence, with the abductors allegedly demanding a crypto ransom. There was an alleged incident in February 2025 in Chicago as properly.
As “Dr. Anon” instructed in Cointelegraph Journal, “These assaults are often ‘your cash or your life’ conditions carried out by subtle, skilled, and arranged criminals. That mentioned, one can considerably restrict their losses by having a ‘decoy’ crypto pockets with a small portion of funds.”
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