An Italian man escaped a New York City apartment where he says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks over a Bitcoin password.

One of two cryptocurrency investors under arrest in the alleged kidnapping and torture of a man in SoHo has waived his court appearance on Wednesday morning. John Woeltz, 37, was expected to make his first court appearance in a Lower Manhattan courtroom after he was taken into custody on Friday and charged in the alleged kidnapping scheme.

William Duplessie is charged with kidnapping and assaulting an Italian crypto trader in Manhattan; he and co-defendant John Woeltz allegedly tortured the victim for his Bitcoin password.

The second suspect in the alleged kidnapping and torture of an Italian bitcoin dealer inside a SoHo townhouse was seen scowling as he was remanded without bail in court Tuesday night.

The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves seeking digital assets.

Crypto trader John Woeltz, accused of kidnapping a 28-year-old Italian man, repeatedly shocked his victim with electric wires, held him upside down from the top of a staircase, and threatened to

John Woeltz, the Kentucky crypto entrepreneur accused of a heinous kidnapping and torture plot is innocent — and being manipulated by someone else, a relative claimed to The Post.

A 24-year-old aspiring actress was arrested for allegedly helping a crypto investor kidnap and torture an Italian man to steal his Bitcoin password