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Here we’ve got two world-historical narcissists who’ve already done so much work, together and separately, to destroy basic functions of the federal government, the American information ecosystem, and international alliances, enriching themselves with crypto schemes and through pressure to foreign countries along the way.

The firm’s investments include various AI startups and an eye-scanning crypto project backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman in which people verify they’re human.

All because two fellow crypto enthusiasts, whom he personally knew, desired access to his multimillion-dollar Bitcoin fortune—and were willing to do anything to make him give up the password to his virtual wallet.

Per police reports, Carturan and Woeltz had ties to an unnamed New York crypto hedge fund; the latter had often “picked on” the former and, eventually, a disagreement over money led Carturan to fly back to Italy.

But the details common to these crimes are terrifying enough to warrant extra caution for crypto holders: home invasions, kidnapping, drugging.