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foobarqux on March 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Frozen Funds

It needs to come online to prove that you haven't lost the keys.

jackgavigan on March 23, 2014 [–]

Or you could use the key to digitally sign a message (that contains something like a newspaper headline or football scoreline) periodically?

Besides, I don't think losing the keys is the root cause of many exchanges' solvency issues.

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