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Cryptopolitan on MSNCrypto millionaires are hiring bodyguards to avoid being kidnappedCrypto millionaires are now treating personal security like they treat cold storage wallets – essential. A rising number of wealthy investors are hiring
Jethro Pijlman was seeing an uptick in interest from concerned clients with large crypto holdings who were looking for bodyguards and other forms of protection.Pijlman works for an Amsterdam-based firm that provides physical security and intelligence services to cryptocurrency holders who have become worried about the wave of kidnappings that have hit the industry — the most recent of which occurred last week,
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