[PSA] Friendly reminder to backup your shit.

My hard drive just crashed and I am unable to recover it. I use Linux and TOR with a encryption on my partition. Sure, I should use tails, but that is beyond the point because your tails USB might get corrupted as well. My drive contains my user logins, pgp and a pretty considerable amount of Bitcoins in my wallet. On top of that I had money on Nucleus (with PGP 2-FA enabled) waiting for a vendor to put up a custom order All gone, unrecoverable from my drive. FUCK...

But two months ago I backed up these things in an encrypted folder. One stored in the cloud, one on an encrypted USB. So I went to the store, bought a new HDD. Installed linux, restored my backups and ta-da, I have access to my accounts and Bitcoins again. I see many people lose their shit due to having no backup. So let this story inspire to not lose your shit.

Signed: Somebody who didn't just lose 10+ Bitcoins that weren't his


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[3 Points] GotBackup10101101:

The person these coins belong to knows about exit scams, in this case his money would be gone, his risk. In this case, without the backup I would have lost some teeth and would have to become someones bitch for a while. #backupssavelives


[1 Points] fantasticnameuser:

Wait, you backed up all of your incriminating evidence up to the cloud?