Greed and violence collided behind closed doors in SoHo, where a crypto entrepreneur allegedly orchestrated a gruesome kidnapping.

Beatrice Folchi is the 24-year-old brunette beauty who was arrested alongside Kentucky-based crypto investor John Woeltz for the kidnap and torture of an Italian man in SoHo.

Armed assailants tried to kidnap the daughter and grandson of a French cryptocurrency boss in Paris, police said, in a brazen daytime attack that was caught on camera.

The 28-year-old victim escaped Friday morning after being held in captivity for more than two weeks, according to law enforcement sources.

The alleged motive? Her family's cryptocurrency fortune. In a chilling new reality, digital wealth is no longer just vulnerable to hackers—it’s putting lives

The Kentucky-based cryptocurrency investor accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian businessman in a sadistic attempt to extort his Bitcoin password was ordered held without bail Saturday by a Manhattan judge.

Yet at the same time, there seems to be too little awareness of the cost of being your own bank security guard in a cashless world. A recent double-digit rise in crypto-exchange hacks and a wave of brazen crypto-executive kidnapping attempts — with the latest taking place in broad daylight on the streets of Paris — has put the industry on edge and ramped up interest in security ,

Three Florida teenagers face serious charges after allegedly kidnapping a Las Vegas man at gunpoint and stealing $4 million in cryptocurrency and digital assets, according to KTSM 9 News.