For every rich person that openly shows their wealth.
It took me like 2 months to cash out the first time.
Seriously, I don't think this will scare off anyone, especially not exchanges. They make so much money right now they can just hire bodyguards.
Which won't be able to carry weapons in most places. You'll have a hard time finding people who'll fight back when you're being kidnapped at gunpoint.
Most places? Places like what? Even Germany, with its rather restrictive gun laws, has exemptions for private security companies allowing to carry weapons.
While I don't know any specifics, I doubt that it's gonna be that much more difficult, in Eastern Europe out of all places, to get a legal carry permit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/24/world/europe/ukraine-gren...
I met an old school mate years ago she was working as a PA for deutsche bank in the uk and she mentioned that the senior mangers where annoyed as the UK would not allow them to have armed body guards.
I imagine its quite easy to find mercenaries that are willing to fight back. There is an entire industry for hiring people to fight wars.
Bill Browder can't eat at the same restaurant twice because his food may be poisoned. If you are a high profile target you have to change your patterns to remain safe.
Okay, now the kidnappers dress up as cops and "arrest" you. Perhaps they bribe the actual cops to do it for them?
Armed bodyguards do not seem like a substantial increase in difficulty for someone who intends to kidnap a person.
You don't need people boasting about their crypto fortunes. As soon as you set up a Bitcoin tip jar, anyone can look directly at the blockchain to determine how much money you have - and how much you have had at any point in time and where the money went.
Only if you use static addresses. If you're receiving thousands of BTCs, you can easily afford to write a widget that generates a new address for each donor (behind a captcha, to avoid DoS).