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Bob worked at a key position at one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world and later a mid-sized exchange.

>Occam's razor is a safe starting point for this situation.

The simplest explanation is he wasn't targeted and it was just a random mugging where he didnt want to hand over a few $1000s in belongings under the threat of violence?

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Violent situations are not logical negotiations. People react in fight or flight (both the attacker and the defender!).

But yes, it is absolutely the most likely occurrence that an obviously wealthy exec, an older man, was an easy mark for a random mugging gone wrong at the wee hours than some crypto bro plotted an assassination.

"Mugging gone wrong, someone got stabbed" is a very, very common situation. Also note that he lived to receive initial aid and perished on the way to the hospital - it's not like he was shot and stuffed in a car trunk.

Yeah super likely that a random homeless stabbed him in a mugging gone wrong and not someone he knew. Sherlock Holmes on the case over here.

dang man you are so right. so smart. wow.

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