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Re:S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in... by pshc on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:32PM (#25294368)
It’s not impossible to make copies of and secure private keys if you have a plan. (But even if you had bought some and preserved it, would you have had the tenacity/foresight to hold onto the BTC for 7+ years?)
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Re:S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in... by Afton on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:07PM (#25294956)
> It’s not impossible to make copies of and secure private keys if you have a plan

I was 100% discussing my scenario. I would absolutely not have enacted a careful plan with multiple fall-backs. Which is it's own kind of self-indictment tbh, but one that I am at peace with. :D

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Re:S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in... by sebmellen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:09PM (#25298466)
Also, this holds for 99.99% of the populous. Even hardware wallets aren't a great solution and there you're paying a hundred dollars or so just to get one.

Shovels in a gold rush.

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