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Title: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: adamstgBit on February 03, 2012, 06:03:48 AM I have about 5 btc on a corrupt usb drive :(
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1lveOvGmL3A/Tt4tS5FH8lI/AAAAAAAAAY4/9ryvHo-cbAk/s1600/black+hole+event+horizon.jpg see this thread for the story about 250BTC lost https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62310.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62310.0) Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: ZodiacDragon84 on February 03, 2012, 06:05:18 AM This is why we back things up!
Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: Crypt_Current on February 03, 2012, 06:32:42 AM Someday, when quantum computing becomes an everyday thing, those BTC will be re-discovered. Of course, they will also likely be worthless. And neutron-annihilation type weapons that make nukes look like pea-shooters will also ... blah blah blah, far future blah
Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: adamstgBit on February 03, 2012, 06:36:56 AM Someday, when quantum computing becomes an everyday thing, those BTC will be re-discovered. Of course, they will also likely be worthless. And neutron-annihilation type weapons that make nukes look like pea-shooters will also ... blah blah blah, far future blah yes and the worlds traffic problems will be solved by the invention of the flying car ;) Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: Crypt_Current on February 03, 2012, 06:43:42 AM Someday, when quantum computing becomes an everyday thing, those BTC will be re-discovered. Of course, they will also likely be worthless. And neutron-annihilation type weapons that make nukes look like pea-shooters will also ... blah blah blah, far future blah yes and the worlds traffic problems will be solved by the invention of the flying car ;) I just happened to remember about this so-called "neutron annihilation" power, that's supposedly on par with or surpass anti-matter -- matter annihilation as far as power output. I was introduced to the concept by a book I read about a year ago: "The Physics of Christianity" by Frank Tipler. It's a sequel to his (much better, IMO) masterpiece "The Physics of Immortality". The second one reads like crazier than any science fiction I've ever read / seen / heard... Like Da Vinci Code + Star Wars + Star Trek TNG on crack+meth+steroids+LSD+DMT. Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: coin_toss on February 03, 2012, 07:19:17 AM I've got so many backups there would have to be a second big bang for me to lose any coins to the black hole
Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: bb113 on February 03, 2012, 10:50:04 AM Someday, when quantum computing becomes an everyday thing, those BTC will be re-discovered. Of course, they will also likely be worthless. And neutron-annihilation type weapons that make nukes look like pea-shooters will also ... blah blah blah, far future blah yes and the worlds traffic problems will be solved by the invention of the flying car ;) I just happened to remember about this so-called "neutron annihilation" power, that's supposedly on par with or surpass anti-matter -- matter annihilation as far as power output. I was introduced to the concept by a book I read about a year ago: "The Physics of Christianity" by Frank Tipler. It's a sequel to his (much better, IMO) masterpiece "The Physics of Immortality". The second one reads like crazier than any science fiction I've ever read / seen / heard... Like Da Vinci Code + Star Wars + Star Trek TNG on crack+meth+steroids+LSD+DMT. Best review I've ever read. I'll check it out. Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: Technomage on February 03, 2012, 12:03:10 PM I've got so many backups there would have to be a second big bang for me to lose any coins to the black hole Same for me, I've got multiple backups even for my mobile wallets which don't have a lot of BTC in them. The poll sucks because not losing coins to the black hole has nothing to do with being lucky, it's a question of making stupid decisions and not making stupid decisions.Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: stochastic on February 04, 2012, 08:17:58 AM I have about 5 btc on a corrupt usb drive :( see this thread for the story about 250BTC lost https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62310.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62310.0) I am curious as to how many bitcoins are lost in a given year. Title: Re: [Daily Speculation Poll] :: The great black hole sucked up 250 BTC today Post by: Vandroiy on February 04, 2012, 12:23:05 PM Back when I was mining for a bit, the pool apparently let itself get SQL injected. WTF, SQL injection in 2011, seriously? I don't remember them admitting or denying it, but the passwords or their hashes were leaked in one way or another, which is a massive blunder either way. Then again, Gox also let that happen, so I guess Bitcoiners just didn't care about security then. That, or the pool just took the BTC themselves, I can never tell the difference.
Destroyed BTC... I think someone locked 0.1 BTC into one of those crazily unstable Schildbach Wallets on one of these vendor-controlled phones without backup capability. I've been able to restore them when I made the same mistake with around 100 BTC. I had properly made a backup after generating the private key for Bitcoin. Yay for discipline, and yay for Nexus One vs the TPM-legacy crapware that are >90% of mobile phones. 8) Bottom line: Stolen < 3 BTC, endangered but recovered ~= 100 BTC, destroyed by people I know = 0.1 BTC. I think that's an acceptable record so far. |
