What do most of you do with old / dead coins and their blockchains that you have downloaded? Save the wallet.dat on a USB drive, keep the entire blockchain too just in case, or just delete it and move on?
I have a 2TB drive full of what are now and I can only assume are going to be in the future dead coin blockchanins. But, that voice in the back of my head says "you never know" you might have someone revive that coin and those 500,000 bongodrum coins might be worth BTC0.00000001 each one day.
I'm doing some cleanup of my storage PC and just can't make myself hit the delete button.
I am thinking of getting an 2TB external USB and putting it on a shelf but that means spending money for a drive, which seems silly.
What does everyone else do? Am I just a hoarder?
-Dave
This is what I do.
1. on coin wallet, go to the console and do "dumpprivkey [address]"
2. Save the address and privatekeycode generated on an encrypted file.
3. Delete wallet.dat
4. In the future, when the coin arises from the dead, download the wallet again. then "importprivkey [privkeycode]"