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		vpsserver on Dec 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy But it makes sense to retrieve wallets from instances that are going to be permanently deleted (when client stopped paying, etc). For example it would save 17000 BTC that bitomat.pl exchange lost when upgrading Amazon EC2 instance to add RAM.

singlow on Dec 18, 2013 [–]

Not if you assume that the client should have already backed up data on that instance, and keeping a copy for yourself is illegal.

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