A 29-year-old Bitcoiner was kidnapped and killed hours ago in Kyiv, Ukraine, according to the Communication Department of the National Police and local reports. Four men aged 24 to 29 are now in custody for allegedly “carefully” preparing a plan to abduct the victim and steal three bitcoins worth around $207,000.

“Information about the man's abduction came to the capital's police around midnight. Residents of a house in Solomyansk district heard screams and saw several unknown people beating and forcibly putting a man in a car,” the police agency wrote in a statement (translated by Google). The officers’ investigation found that the attack was premeditated. 

Violent attacks on cryptocurrency holders are not uncommon — for instance, at the recent ETHcc in Brussels, several …