The BriefA 28-year-old man visiting from Italy was kidnapped and tortured for weeks in SoHo by two men demanding his Bitcoin password.The case highlights the rise of "wrench attacks," where physical violence is used to extract crypto access.

In Manhattan's tony Nolita neighborhood, the so-called "Crypto King of Kentucky" allegedly held an Italian man hostage and tortured him for weeks when trying to gain access to his Bitcoin wallet. As NBC New York reports,

Duplessie is accused of conspiring with 37-year-old John Woeltz, who was arrested Friday, to hold the cryptocurrency trader hostage. According to CNN, Woeltz was cuffed after the trader — a 28-year-old Italian man who arrived to the U.S. on May 6 — escaped from the apartment.