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A rise in violent crimes aimed at Bitcoin owners is drawing fresh alarm from security experts and industry groups.

According to speakers at the Baltic Honeybadger 2025 conference in Riga, Latvia, criminals are increasingly using stolen personal data plus on-chain analysis to find and attack people who hold Bitcoin and other digital assets.

The attacks—often called “wrench attacks”—can include kidnapping, physical assault, and extortion to force victims to hand over private keys.

Every week, at least one Bitcoin holder is reportedly kidnapped, tortured, extorted, or worse, say conference sources.

Data Leaks Fuel Criminal Targeting

According to Alena Vranova, founder of hardware wallet maker SatoshiLabs, more than 80 million crypto user identities are exposed online, and roughly 2.2 million of those records include home addresses.

Based on reports from Chainalysis, the number of wrench attacks in 2025 has already nearly matched the worst year on record and could double by year-end if trends continue.

US exchange Coinbase confirmed in May 2025 that some customers’ names and addresses were exposed in a hack, and Cybernews reported databases containing over 16 billion stolen credentials from large tech firms such as Apple, Facebook, and Google.

Criminals Are Working Faster And Smarter

Reports have disclosed that attackers combine leaked KYC data with blockchain analysis tools to spot high-value targets. Once a potential victim is identified, criminals may launch phishing campaigns, carry out SIM-swap attacks, or escalate to physical violence to obtain private keys.

Cases cited at the conference include kidnappings over amounts as small as $6,000 in crypto, and murders linked to roughly $50,000, undercutting the assumption that only the richest holders are at risk.

As more people enter the market during the bull run, organizers warn that less experienced investors can become easy marks.

Security Measures Move From Digital To Physical

Based on industry response, many high-profile holders are boosting physical security, hiring private guards, and taking steps to obscure their public crypto profiles.

Everyday investors are also being urged to adopt better operational security: use non-custodial wallets, enable multi-factor authentication that does not rely on SMS, use unique passwords and password managers, split holdings across multiple secure locations, and avoid talking publicly about the size of one’s holdings.

Experts stress that no single step is foolproof; a layered approach that separates key material and limits the amount any one person can access is recommended.

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An analyst known for making timely crypto calls believes that Ethereum (ETH) is poised to positively surprise investors.

Pseudonymous analyst Pentoshi tells his 869,800 followers on the social media platform X that he’s targeting $3,200 for Ethereum but notes that ETH can print new all-time high prices.

Pentoshi says the macro picture is changing for Ethereum in a meaningful way.

“You can see the narrative changing around ETH right now. And in my opinion, it will be obvious in hindsight. But most are too jaded.

In less than one month, public companies will have bought enough ETH to offset all the ETH that’s been created since the Merge.

It’s 1/9th the market cap of BTC, and takes far less capital to move. That capital is clearly coming.

It’s still very early for this trade. I don’t know if it will be today, tomorrow, or next month. But I think we are going to look back at what is right in front of your eyes and think, I can’t believe it was so obvious.

The amount of capital starting to flow into ETH, will lead to big moves. And all we have to do, is do nothing. Set the tribalism aside, set the past aside.

[Tom Lee] should be paid attention to, and the amount of companies he will onboard, and other retail users.

All you have to do is set your bias aside and look at what’s happening. Hate it or love it. It seems inevitable.” 

In a question-and-answer exclusive with the Global Money Talk YouTube channel, Fundstrat managing partner Tom Lee says that Ethereum will come back to life amid increasing stablecoin adoption.

“Stablecoins are being pushed by the United States government. Here’s the thing. Circle (USDC) runs on Ethereum. Stablecoins run on Ethereum. So as stablecoins explode, Ethereum is the backbone for stablecoins. So I think Ethereum is going to make a big comeback as well.”

Data from DefiLlama shows that the total Ethereum stablecoins market cap currently stands at $126.509 billion, up over $431 million in just seven days.

At time of writing, ETH is worth $2,615.

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The chief global strategist of financial services giant JPMorgan says that the White House’s growth projections for the US economy are unfeasible.

In a new interview with CNBC Television, JPMorgan executive David Kelly says that the White House’s 3% projected growth for the economy doesn’t make sense as the US doesn’t have the means to boost productivity to match.

According to Kelly, baby boomers retiring and shrinking employment numbers will impact the growth of the US economy. However, though he says 3% is untenable, he does envision the economy growing in part.

“I don’t see how we’ll do that. In order to do that, you’ve got to boost productivity, because if you look at the US economic growth, in the long run, so far this century, it’s been about 2%. That’s 1.5% from productivity and 0.5% from the growth in labor.

The problem is that the baby boomers are retiring, the nation-born working age population is shrinking, so if you end up with zero net immigration, you got no employment growth and that means [you grow] 1.5%, not 3%. Now we might do better than 1.5%, but we’re not close to 3%. There’s nothing in the outlook which tells me that we can sustain 3% growth.”

The White House’s projection for the growth of the US economy is related to President Donald Trump’s latest spending bill, which included extensions on tax breaks and is currently being voted on in Congress.

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A crypto analyst gaining traction for timely Bitcoin calls is outlining a scenario where BTC breaks free from sideways trading and surges to new all-time highs.

Pseudonymous analyst Credible tells his 468,700 followers on the social media platform X that Bitcoin appears to be following an Elliott Wave (EW) pattern where BTC consolidates in the next few weeks before igniting a breakout rally toward the end of July.

Elliott Wave theory is an advanced form of technical analysis that seeks to forecast future price movements by tracking crowd psychology, which often unfolds in recurring wave patterns.

Says Credible,

“BTC holding up very well over the last few days.

As stated in my last update, I think we will test the blue zone sooner or later, whether that be before or after taking our local range highs.

From an EW perspective, something like this would be ideal. Although there are, of course, a few different structures that we may see to complete this correction, structures that lead to a tighter compression before expansion are always preferred because a substantial decrease in volatility/compression usually leads to a stronger breakout after.

Focus should remain on key levels (blue zone and range highs) in terms of areas of interest.”

Based on the trader’s chart, he seems to suggest that Bitcoin will briefly rally above $110,000 before pulling back to the $100,000 level to gear up for a breakout surge.

As for the altcoin market, Credible thinks that alts will witness huge upside bursts despite concerns about liquidity sources. According to the analyst, crypto investors had the same liquidity worry about Bitcoin when it was trading below $30,000, and now BTC is worth $107,417.

“Stop worrying about ‘where the liquidity will come from’ for alts.

At this stage, crypto is like a teardrop in the ocean – there is plenty of liquidity out there.”

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Macro strategist Luke Gromen unpacks how developments in the energy market could directly impact Bitcoin (BTC).

In a new thread on the social media platform X, Gromen tells his 340,800 followers that he thinks gold and Bitcoin are poised to surge if energy prices spike.

“1. Whenever physical [gold] is revalued to a big multiple of oil, energy prices in fiat will skyrocket, sending gold far higher on fiat.

2. When energy prices in fiat skyrocket, the price of BTC will also skyrocket in fiat.

And the stock-to-flow ratio of BTC is way higher than gold.” 

When asked about the connection between oil and BTC, the macro expert explains that surging energy prices fuel inflation, which in turn puts pressure on the bond market.

“Because the bond market will need to be capped with printed money to prevent the inflation driven by a rise in energy prices from collapsing it…

Rising energy prices beyond a point will break bonds.

Once that happens, either money will have to be printed to cap yields to maintain government solvency, or sovereign debt will nominally get restructured.

Assets with no counterparties should outperform (gold, BTC).”

When inflation is on the up and up, bond investors demand higher yields (returns) to make up for the loss in purchasing power. Bonds locked into lower yields typically witness a drop in value as investors rush out of assets that offer little to no real returns, triggering a bond market collapse. Gromen thinks that the Fed will be forced to buy bonds with printed money to prevent a collapse, creating favorable conditions for Bitcoin and gold.

Gromen also notes that at the most fundamental level, Bitcoin is a product of the energy market as miners rely on massive amounts of electricity to mine BTC.

“Electricity used to support BTC and its price is very real, enough to power much of the US continent.”

At time of writing, Bitcoin is worth $106,401.

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The former chief market strategist at JPMorgan, Marko Kolanovic, is offering his outlook on the US stock market in his first interview since leaving the trillion-dollar bank.

In a CNBC interview, Kolanovic says a correction could be incoming for the US stock market amid a loss of momentum by stocks such as the electric carmaker Tesla and the analytics software firm Palantir Technologies.

The analyst also warns that the equities are trading close to record high levels, but America is still staring at the same issues that triggered a stock market correction earlier this year.

“That [loss of momentum] could be a catalyst for a bit of a correction because close to all-time highs, but we still have all the problems. We have a trade war, we had a sort of signs of economic slowdown, valuations are back to highs. So that’s sort of what I’m kind of expecting – a little bit of a pullback here.”

Kolanovic believes that a potential pullback could ultimately reward patient investors, provided the likelihood of a US economic contraction does not significantly increase.

“There are some cheap aspects of US markets as well, and maybe wait for that garden variety sell-off that can be maybe 5%, 10%.

And if we still don’t have the recession probability shooting up, then it’s a buy opportunity. But I would keep an open mind that maybe at that point there is increased probability of recession and maybe even that 5% is not a buy at that [point].”

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A closely followed crypto analyst is predicting that Bitcoin (BTC) is on the verge of printing new all-time highs.

Analyst and trader Kevin Svenson tells his 161,300 followers on the social media platform X that Bitcoin may explode to new record high levels based on breakout patterns since April.

“Bitcoin breakout (four-hour). Now that we’ve broken out of the consolidation, we have an official measured move target. Target: $115,000.”

However, Svenson tells his 82,800 YouTube subscribers that for Bitcoin’s upward momentum to continue, the S&P 500 (SPX) needs to remain bullish based on BTC’s historic correlation with stocks.

“Bitcoin, in my opinion, looks really, really good, even with the little rejection we had earlier. We’re just retesting previous resistance as new support here. So I think it’s still really likely for this to play out.

But the main thing is, if the stock market allows it. The S&P has been on an epic rebound. I mean, we’re really, really close to a new all-time high for the S&P. Imagine if you told people that at the bottom of this market, when everyone was calling for a recession or a 2008-style crash, imagine if you said that in a month, we’d be back at the all-time high. Nobody would have believed you. But here we are.

This is an extremely volatile market, and anything is possible in these conditions. And so my point is, as long as the S&P and the stock market in general sort of allow Bitcoin to remain bullish, then Bitcoin will probably follow that next measured move target to $115,000.

If the S&P finds some sort of lower high or resistance, well then it may not be so easy to get to $115,000.”

Bitcoin is trading for $106,000 at time of writing, flat on the day.

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A closely followed crypto analyst believes one meme token operating on Solana (SOL) is in the early stages of a market recovery.

Pseudonymous analyst Altcoin Sherpa tells his 243,800 followers on the social media platform X that he’s bullish on the memecoin Bonk (BONK).

The trader shares a chart suggesting that BONK will face resistance at the $0.000012 level before printing a bullish higher low setup and rallying to his target above $0.0000145.

“BONK is looking strong in the short term, and should go higher. Should be a pullback around the 200 EMA (exponential moving average) on the four-hour chart but still, I think this has pulled back enough to where any buying down here is probably reasonable.”

At time of writing, BONK is worth $0.00001376.

Turning to the low-cap altcoin Alchemist AI (ALCH), the analyst says the coin appears to be in an uptrend and that he’s waiting for potential dips to accumulate the asset.

ALCH is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based crypto project that allows users with no coding skills to generate codes by providing natural language descriptions.

Says Altcoin Sherpa,

“ALCH still seems like a really strong chart, don’t see it being mentioned much. I think it’s basically taken the place of ARC; a super volatile AI coin that moves 20% a day. Not in it but traded it a lot before; will look to buy dips.”

At time of writing, ALCH is the 431st-largest crypto asset by market cap, trading at $0.109.

Looking at Bitcoin, Altcoin Sherpa thinks that BTC will continue to consolidate within a large trading range in the short to mid-term.

“Expecting there is some sort of chop between $70,000-$90,000 over the next several weeks for BTC. Relative bottom probably in, but still some more consolidation to come.”

At time of writing, Bitcoin is trading for $85,366.

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A closely followed crypto analyst is warning that payments token XRP and three other altcoins may suddenly collapse.

In a new post, crypto trader Ali Martinez tells his 134,500 followers on the social media platform X that XRP may be forming a head-and-shoulders (H&S) pattern on the daily chart.

An H&S structure is a bearish pattern indicating that an asset has lost momentum to sustain its uptrend after failing to print new highs.

He also says that the Ethereum (ETH) hard fork Ethereum Classic (ETC), decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Yearn.Finance (YFI) and a Bitcoin (BTC) hard fork Bitcoin Cash (BCH) are on the verge of losing key support levels.

“What do XRP, ETC, YFI, and BCH have in common?”

XRP is trading for $2.08 at time of writing, down 3.3% in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, ETC is trading for $16.69 at time of writing, up 1% on the day, and YFI is trading for $4,778 at time of writing, down 1.1% in the last 24 hours.

BCH is trading for $302 at time of writing, up 1.1% on the day.

Next up, he says that the Tom DeMark (TD) Sequential indicator is flashing a bullish signal on the weekly charts for layer-1 protocol Algorand (ALGO) and global payments network Stellar (XLM).

TD Sequential is an indicator used in technical analysis to determine potential trend reversal points.

“The TD Sequential just presented a buy signal on the weekly chart for Algorand. This could be the spark for a fresh uptrend!”

ALGO is trading for $0.17 at time of writing, down 1.5% in the last 24 hours.

He suggests Stellar may increase more than 46% its current value.

“The TD Sequential indicator just flashed a buy signal on the Stellar weekly chart, which could lead to a rebound to $0.34 or even $0.38!”

XLM is trading for $0.26 at time of writing, down 2% on the day.

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A crypto strategist who accurately timed Solana’s (SOL) meltdown this year thinks the next few years will not be kind to the popular layer-1 protocol.

Pseudonymous analyst Bluntz tells his 318,400 followers on the social media platform X that he believes SOL will spend the next two years in deep bear territory.

While Bluntz is long-term bearish on SOL, he predicts that the altcoin will witness counter-trend rallies in the coming months but notes that the surges will likely set up Solana for an even deeper drawdown.

“SOL now down 57% from the highs.

Now that it’s cool to hate it again, I can share my thoughts without having to worry about getting roasted by pleb reply guys.

The rise/bull market lasted 762 days, the bear, (AT MINIMUM) will likely last about 70% or so in time. Best case, this drags out to mid-2026 and in the worst case, end of 2026.

This move so far is likely an A wave and at some point there will probably be a very slow drawn-out complacency shoulder up that most will mistake for a new bull market.”

Bluntz utilizes the Elliott Wave theory in his analysis, which states that an asset will go through an ABC correction after completing a five-wave surge.

Looking at the trader’s chart, he seems to suggest that SOL will end its A-wave pullback once it goes below $100. He also predicts that SOL will kick off a counter-trend B-wave rally en route to $200 by early 2026 before crashing to around $80 in 2027 for the C-wave correction.

At that point, Bluntz predicts that SOL will launch a new five-wave rally that could see Solana trading above $300 in 2028.

At time of writing, SOL is worth $118.10, down nearly 7% on the day.

Turning the US Dollar Index (DXY), a benchmark of the value of the US dollar compared to a basket of six major currencies, Bluntz says that 2025 will be a horrible year for the dominant global reserve asset.

“DXY getting absolutely murdered this week probably continues throughout the whole of 2025 in my opinion.”

Based on the trader’s chart, he appears to suggest that the DXY is now in the midst of a C-wave correction that could take the index below 100 points.

At time of writing, the DXY is trading at 103.84 points.

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