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August 04, 2011, 07:28:37 PM
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"Woops! Me sorry youre money lost!"

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August 04, 2011, 07:31:09 PM
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"Me sorry youre money lost!"
they can't say anything more then that. "sad show, your money are lost"

but i really hope that they take backups

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August 04, 2011, 07:33:12 PM
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What if? It has already happened.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33457.0

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August 04, 2011, 07:43:16 PM
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any sensible exchange would BACKUP their wallet ....

or so one would think

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August 04, 2011, 07:44:55 PM
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MtGox said they only have 2% of BTC online at any point in time.  The rest are on offline backups.
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August 04, 2011, 07:47:41 PM
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I always backup my wallet to my ram drive so I can get it faster when I need it.   Tongue

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August 04, 2011, 07:49:27 PM
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I always backup my wallet to my ram drive so I can get it faster when I need it.   Tongue
ram drive i hope you are joking!

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August 04, 2011, 08:01:28 PM
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I always backup my wallet to my ram drive so I can get it faster when I need it.   Tongue
ram drive i hope you are joking!
Why?
Bitomat used to do that and it is the third biggest exchange





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August 04, 2011, 08:10:35 PM
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I always backup my wallet to my ram drive so I can get it faster when I need it.   Tongue
ram drive i hope you are joking!
Why?
Bitomat used to do that and it is the third biggest exchange
Complete the phrase. Mtgox used to ___ and it is the biggest exchange.

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August 04, 2011, 08:16:36 PM
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I always backup my wallet to my ram drive so I can get it faster when I need it.   Tongue
Good luck with power outages
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August 04, 2011, 08:21:12 PM
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I always backup my wallet to my ram drive so I can get it faster when I need it.   Tongue
ram drive i hope you are joking!
Why?
Bitomat used to do that and it is the third biggest exchange
Complete the phrase. Mtgox used to ___ and it is the biggest exchange.


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August 04, 2011, 08:29:10 PM
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I always backup my wallet to my ram drive so I can get it faster when I need it.   Tongue
ram drive i hope you are joking!
Another great idea would be to backup your wallet into your GPU framebuffer. It's really fast! Even faster than CPU memory. Be careful that you don't accidentally overwrite it by moving the mouse over it, though...

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August 04, 2011, 08:43:05 PM
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I always backup my wallet to my ram drive so I can get it faster when I need it.   Tongue
ram drive i hope you are joking!
Another great idea would be to backup your wallet into your GPU framebuffer. It's really fast! Even faster than CPU memory. Be careful that you don't accidentally overwrite it by moving the mouse over it, though...


Well...I was going to back it up to /dev/null to save some hard drive space, but I didn't want to fill that up either.


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