RedHoops (OP)
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April 29, 2013, 11:34:42 AM |
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...and to show how much I don't know about computers, how is a bit coin wallet retrievable in the event of a hard drive melt down?  |
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There are several different types of Bitcoin clients. The most secure are full nodes like Bitcoin Core, which will follow the rules of the network no matter what miners do. Even if every miner decided to create 1000 bitcoins per block, full nodes would stick to the rules and reject those blocks.
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Tirapon
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April 29, 2013, 11:35:46 AM |
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Make a backup of your wallet.dat. You can find where its located using google.
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Tirapon
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April 29, 2013, 11:38:37 AM |
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phatsphere
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April 29, 2013, 11:48:50 AM |
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if it is really molten, no chance. otherwise it depends if it still runs and just the filesystem is broken (easier case) or the chips/heads are broken. in any case, there are companies dealing with that. depends on how much they cost vs. the value of the lost bitcoins.
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Gabi
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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat
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April 29, 2013, 11:56:49 AM |
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Better you backuped your wallet, otherwise our coins will just suddenly be a bit more valuable  |
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franky1
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April 29, 2013, 02:07:33 PM |
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get a copy of your private keys and store them separately aswell.
that way you have paper back up, digital backup aswell as the live wallet being used
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grue
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April 29, 2013, 02:10:16 PM |
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if you have it encrypted, just have it backed up at a cloud storage service (like dropbox)
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namecoinwallet
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April 29, 2013, 04:12:31 PM |
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Back up everything in advance.
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556j
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April 29, 2013, 04:15:16 PM |
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Copy your wallet.dat, encrypt the wallet with truecrypt, then email yourself the encrypted file to your gmail acount and a waala cloud storage account.
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April 30, 2013, 12:24:59 AM |
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Copy your wallet.dat, encrypt the wallet with truecrypt, then email yourself the encrypted file to your gmail acount and a waala cloud storage account.
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RedHoops (OP)
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April 30, 2013, 01:45:32 AM |
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Thank you all for the help. I appreciate it.
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