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> possibility of solar flares wiping out storage/data -- at my bank, on my hard drive and what not.

Oh, one solar flare can solve global inequality in an instant! There money in all bank account would dissapear and the recently rich would have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps!



Nah, it will just eliminate the middle class. I’m sure the millionaires will figure something out from their villas and yachts.


Not the ones who wrote 12 magic words on a piece of paper ...


What are you referring to?


The seed phrase for a crypto wallet.


How would that do anything? Wouldn't the Blockchain be wiped out by such an event?


Blockchain is much more resilient than regular databases. There are thousands of copies of it across the globe, some are stored deep underground, and even some were launched into the space, I believe.


Yea likely so. I'm not sure why GP posted this other than as a joke. I am just answering what the 12 words were referring to IMO.




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