<p>That's exactly how private key works. All you need to have is a private key to access your wallet. And this is the reason it is not a good idea to fire your private key to mars, if someone get there before you, they will steal all your coins.</p>

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Sufiyan Ghori
<p>Lets say I put my wallet's private key on a rocket and fire it towards mars.  In 50 years time I travel to mars for a cheap vacation and find my private key.  Would I then have full access to my wallet, including all the transactions over the past 50 years and the current balance (from when I landed on mars in person) etc?</p>

<p>In other words, to fully backup my wallet and be able to restore it with full control, do I only need to backup my private key?</p>

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Would backing up my private key be enough?
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# Would backing up my private key be enough?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-02)

Lets say I put my wallet's private key on a rocket and fire it towards mars. In 50 years time I travel to mars for a cheap vacation and find my private key. Would I then have full access to my wallet, including all the transactions over the past 50 years and the current balance (from when I landed on mars in person) etc?

In other words, to fully backup my wallet and be able to restore it with full control, do I only need to backup my private key?

**Tags:** private-key, backup, private-key-import


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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-08-02. Score: 1

That's exactly how private key works. All you need to have is a private key to access your wallet. And this is the reason it is not a good idea to fire your private key to mars, if someone get there before you, they will steal all your coins.


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