Based on the amount of trolling in the unmoderated thread, I feel it is important to notify the community of updates to this situation in a new thread.
In any case I am sorry if people feel I was irresponsible. However it remains my position that people feel this way because they have a severely incomplete and warped idea of what happened.
One of the big mistakes people seem to have made is seizing upon the number $10,000 and the word "wallet" as if I had said I had $10,000 in the wallet. I did not say that. In fact $10,000 would be the worst case upper end; in reality I panicked a little (remember the OP?) and the number should have been closer to $5,000.
I also did not claim I was using RAID as a backup. I did not say that. I mentioned the server and the backup were hosted on RAID because of how the server went down. The actual fact it was a RAID array is inconsequential. A hard drive could be pulled even if it was not in a RAID array. It boggles my mind how people could not have read what I wrote.
Another claim is that I had "edited dates on the fly" because I had made an obvious mistake and typed "May" instead of "March", and in the edit I used strikethrough instead of just replacing the word. A reading of the post would have implied this anyways because most of what was written was an explanation of the actions I took since the server went down two months ago. It boggles my mind how people could not have read what I wrote.
More than one person even stated I was a known criminal who had previously (as well as this time) absconded with bitcoins. Of course by this point you have to laugh -- seeing how far people have fallen.
The actual wallet had few bitcoins -- certainly less than three -- if anything. The code? Nothing was in production.
I was completely justified in the backup solution I chose. The term realized losses referred to lost costs for the server's downtime and what I had paid for into the future, as well as lost time, lost code, lost content, IP, etc. Not the coins in the wallet. In fact I am pretty sure there was almost nothing there. The big thing is that in the future, should HashKing decide to send us our 500 BTC back, we need to provide a well-known public statement to show that we no longer have access to the wallet. That is the only reason the post was made. We cannot have HashKing (or anyone else) claiming "Oh, well we sent the money back but I guess you screwed up!"
Now that I have recovered everything except the wallet file the actual loss should be pegged at less than $2,000, twelve hundred of which is the cost point of our new backup system. And I have covered the contingency of a future loss with people like Hashking.
Remember the OP?
I may have slightly panicked; they have assured me a new server can be up in about a day. Fingers crossed!
Guys.
fucking relax.