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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but what will destroying the hard drive(s) with a magnet do? If you have a spare drive handy, downtime will be minimal. It's not like the crypto is lost forever just because a hard drive died.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Could work if they forgot to backup their private key for the wallet being mined to