Late at night on March 2, popular streamer Amouranth, whose real name is Kaitlyn Siragusa, made a series of posts on X saying she was the subject of a home invasion by robbers who “wanted crypto is what they were yelling.”
In November 2024, Amouranth posted a screenshot from her Coinbase account showing she held around 211 Bitcoin (BTC), which was worth $20 million at the time. The screenshot also showed she held around $80,000 in Ether (ETH).
She posted an update on March 3, hours after the initial X posts, where she said there were three gunmen, adding a video presumably from a security camera. After allegedly leading the three men to another section of the property, three loud noises ring out, and the three men run off camera.
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Amouranth is known for being open about her finances, appearing on a YouTube personal finance show and sharing her earnings from various platforms. She rose to prominence on Twitch, where she was the most-watched female streamer in 2021 and 2022. Recently, she made headway into creator platform OnlyFans.
String of high-profile “crypto wrench” attacks
Crypto wrench attacks, when a crypto holder is threatened with physical force to turn over their coins, have made their way through the news cycle in 2025 with a number of high-profile incidents.
In January, a Canadian volunteer moderator of a crypto forum went into hiding after kidnappers allegedly attempted to abduct him and force him to transfer his Bitcoin.
On Jan. 21, David Balland, the co-founder of Ledger, was reportedly abducted from his home, with the kidnappers allegedly demanding a crypto ransom. There was an alleged incident in February 2025 in Chicago as well.
As “Dr. Anon” told in Cointelegraph Magazine, “These attacks are frequently ‘your money or your life’ situations carried out by sophisticated, professional, and organized criminals. That said, one can significantly limit their losses by having a ‘decoy’ crypto wallet with a small portion of funds.”
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