I read the article and don't understand what a physical crypto asset is that would require theft by breaking into the house. I thought the whole point of crypto was it is digital
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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Data is stored on a hard disk. You can steal those.
However, this sounds more like the "transfer me your crypto or I'll bash ya" kind of old school thuggery.
Anyone with a crypto wallet on a hard disk would have it encrypted, backed up, and paasworded too. Stealing the physical disk would only work if you also had means to break into it, and transfer the funds faster than the owner can do the same from their backup.
