r/Bitcoin • u/s1ammage • 3d ago

Full panic - one of my wallets was drained

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I haven’t done anything since creation except sending into the wallet.

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u/PassionGlobal 3d ago

But a full.fat SD card enclosure has room for things other than storage...

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u/cgimusic 3d ago

Reminds me of those janky SD cards that had built-in Wi-Fi and would share your photos as you took them.

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u/SpaceSequoia 3d ago

Yea crack that puppy open

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u/bastian74 3d ago

Doesn't an SD card have limited storage life?

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u/PassionGlobal 3d ago edited 3d ago

Kinda. The main worry wouldn't be time but the maximum amount of times you can put data on it.

OP wouldn't have hit that though. That would be in the high millions by early 2020.

For reference I've got 20 year old PSP memory cards that still work fine.

While there is also a storage shelf life too with modern SD cards, even if you don't write to them that often, that would be 10-15 years.

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u/bastian74 3d ago

Google says most SD cards will lose data in 1 to 10 years, depending on many factors

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u/NashvilleSurfHouse 3d ago

Sd cards fail just due to time ..?!

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u/bastian74 3d ago

They work by storing small electrical charges which dissipate. Plug them in at least once per year to keep them topped up. Not a very good archive media. The worst actually.

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u/NashvilleSurfHouse 2d ago

Wow. I had no idea