Crypto-Rapts & Control Engineering
Crypto-rapts are rising: wallets aren’t breached, people are. CACHE256 decodes the real signal: fear as leverage, custody as control vector.
Crypto-Rapts & Control Engineering
CACHE256 · JUNE 2025
Crypto thefts aren’t always digital.
They’re kinetic.
Violent extraction of private keys—zip ties, threats, and GPS trackers.
→ $80M+ stolen via physical extortion in 2024–25
→ Victims tracked via ENS, socials, wallet behavior
→ No protocol breached. Sovereignty was.
The real vector:
Fear. Not failure.
The more the threat grows, the louder the calls for policy.
Custody mandates. Transfer restrictions. Surveillance rails.
PTB’s leverage:
– Regulate “for protection”
– Capture flows via compliance
– Normalize central custody
C-level signal:
– Risk: kinetic exposure ≠ technical failure
– Move: split custody, multisig with geographic insulation
– Watch: laws framing “safety” as sovereignty transfer
Insecurity isn’t a bug. It’s a pretext.
Control doesn’t follow chaos. It codes it.
Sources :
CACHE256 · JUNE 2025
Crypto thefts aren’t always digital.
They’re kinetic.
Violent extraction of private keys—zip ties, threats, and GPS trackers.
→ $80M+ stolen via physical extortion in 2024–25
→ Victims tracked via ENS, socials, wallet behavior
→ No protocol breached. Sovereignty was.
The real vector:
Fear. Not failure.
The more the threat grows, the louder the calls for policy.
Custody mandates. Transfer restrictions. Surveillance rails.
PTB’s leverage:
– Regulate “for protection”
– Capture flows via compliance
– Normalize central custody
C-level signal:
– Risk: kinetic exposure ≠ technical failure
– Move: split custody, multisig with geographic insulation
– Watch: laws framing “safety” as sovereignty transfer
Insecurity isn’t a bug. It’s a pretext.
Control doesn’t follow chaos. It codes it.
Sources :