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wglb on Aug 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: MyBitcoin Incident Report - August 4th 2011

Who thought you would have to backup money?

wccrawford on Aug 6, 2011 [–]

Even if it was backed, up, the attacker would simply have transferred the BTC to a different wallet so they couldn't be recovered.

I mean, if you could, then you could duplicate BTC. lol That would be some flaw.

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