> If you don't have the keys, it's not your coins
For the vast majority of people, if they do have the keys, their personal security is poor enough that someone will get a copy.
For the vast majority of people, if they do have the keys, their personal security is poor enough that someone will get a copy.
I don't feel bad about it at all, I never imagined or considered it would become what it is and it was just a toy app I ran for a while after SETI@home and Folding@Home got me intrigued with the concept of massively distributed computing.
"Man Has Two Login Attempts Left to Access $220 Million in Bitcoin Before It's All Lost" https://www.newsweek.com/man-has-two-login-attempts-left-acc...
(see also Silicon Valley https://youtu.be/aKXqZh43OH8?t=11)
The issue with someone security conscious like me is that, although you can make many backups, you have to secure each of those backups. The more copies you have the more opportunities for someone to attack, so every backup needs to be fully secure.
Eventually I did such a good job of securing them that I locked myself out.