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		jpr on July 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 3rd largest Bitcoin exchange lost its wallet.dat There's a reason real banks use mainframes, not cloud services...

tghw on July 31, 2011 | [–]

This is not why they use mainframes instead of the cloud. This is why they employ competent sysadmins.

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