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| Off site, unconnected..backup backup backup. Just sayin'. 
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| I have an external Hard Drive connected by USB, constantly doing backups (though not through the system described.) Should I disconnect it so that backups are only occasional at my discretion? This is a response to general hacking, not just this situation.
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| quote: Originally posted by Steve Miller:
Next up - Bitcoin!
Indeed!! I have my data in cloud and physical storage/back-up so I should be ok. But you can’t be too careful!! |
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| quote: Originally posted by Steve Miller:
Next up - Bitcoin!
Different architecture. Bitcoin block chains are distributed across a multitude of systems across the Internet; the last estimate I saw says 83,000 nodes. Someone has to delete all 83,000 copies scattered across the Internet or take more subtle control over a little over half of them to alter Bitcoin’s distributed ledger. |
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| quote: Originally posted by Steve Miller:
Which is not to say that a couple of them couldn't be hacked (it's happened before) such that a lot of people lose a whole lot of money.
Indeed. There was a recent Bitcoin scam that I think involved $3 billion, with a B. I do some blockchain work so this is of more than casual interest to me. |
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