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giaour
on Feb 8, 2022
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Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin ...
Crypto 102: weep for the coins you lost when your cousin spilled soda on the hard drive containing the offline-only copy of your private keys
hungryforcodes
on Feb 8, 2022
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It's funny! But really there are loads of ways to store your keys physically that are human readable.
Miner49er
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Yeah, and then they could be fairly trivially memorized, even.
giaour
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This plan doesn't really scale to the 2000 wallets mentioned in the OP. But maybe that scenario only comes up when you're looking to launder billions of dollars worth of BTC?
netheril96
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And can be easily seized by the government with a search warrant.
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