That’s why you gotta laminate your seed phrase, at the very least. And put it somewhere where it will stay for a very long time and that you’ll remember (maybe hidden in a certain book, or put a false bottom in a drawer, I dunno get creative). Doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have on a disk, the Bitcoin isn’t on the disk, it was the words you should be protecting.
When I first acquired it, I wasn’t aware of a place to even check it’s value. There was this old game called Dragon Tales, where you could gamble whole BTC on things like kicking a coconut tree to see if 0-4 BTC worth of coconuts would fall…
Still looking for that backup of that disk with my bitcoin wallet from the early days… sadly probably gone forever.
That’s why you gotta laminate your seed phrase, at the very least. And put it somewhere where it will stay for a very long time and that you’ll remember (maybe hidden in a certain book, or put a false bottom in a drawer, I dunno get creative). Doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have on a disk, the Bitcoin isn’t on the disk, it was the words you should be protecting.
This was when BTC was like 5 cents and no one had learned this lesson yet.
When I first acquired it, I wasn’t aware of a place to even check it’s value. There was this old game called Dragon Tales, where you could gamble whole BTC on things like kicking a coconut tree to see if 0-4 BTC worth of coconuts would fall…
There’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.
There is a guy fighting Newport council to let him dig through a landfill at the moment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67297013
I just store it in my keepass file, lol