Centralized data collection of crypto user information creates security vulnerabilities that increase physical attack risk on Bitcoin holders and their families

"Home invasion has overtaken all other tactics, rising from a single incident in H1 2025 to 20 in H1 2026, now accounting for roughly 41% of all cases."

"Bull Bitcoin argues in its legal challenge to the DAC8 that further consolidation and sharing of crypto user data will only perpetuate this trend of physical attacks. More than half of the violent incidents recorded in 2026 against crypto owners targeted a family member — spouse, child, elderly parent — as a direct victim or as a pressure lever over the key holder."