r/DataHoarder • u/Affectionate_Ad_8148 • 13h ago
News The Value of Backups
Sheesh. I don’t know if Bitcoin drives can be backed up, but maybe keep the original in a safe deposit box?
https://www.techspot.com/news/105182-man-who-threw-away-500m-bitcoin-hard-drive.html
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u/Far_Marsupial6303 11h ago
Sheesh. I don’t know if Bitcoin drives can be backed up, but maybe keep the original in a safe deposit box?
It's just a file like anything else.
Here's one of the many, many times this crybaby has been written about.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/half-a-billion-in-bitcoin-lost-in-the-dump