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At this point why wouldn’t a slightly crazy treasure hunter investor offer to front tens of millions to like, buy the landfill from the city?

callamdelaney 2y ago
They'd still need permission from the licensing authority technically, waste is a pretty highly regulated thing here and rightly so. Plus, this guy could be misremembering.
- rubyfan 2y ago
  Yeah a lot of us that knew of bitcoin but didn’t really get in to it seem to remember generating a coin or two but can’t remember where we left it.
  - Breza 2y ago
    Agreed. I became interested in Bitcoin in 2013. In 2017 I realized it was never going mainstream for payments when I saw CNBC talking about it without one reference to actually using it as money. I've become pretty cynical about the movement since then, though I wouldn't mind stumbling upon an old private wallet.
thombat 2y ago
They'd need to provide sufficient confidence that they were going to continue to operate the landfill in accordance with all regulations, not just declare bankruptcy when the hunt is over and leave an unsafe mess and a financial black hole. Possibly the set intersection of treasure hunters with that character AND optimism that the drive remains useful is rather small.
Trasmatta 2y ago
> The council said that excavating the landfill site would let harmful substances escape into the environment, endangering residents with "potentially serious risks which raises public health issues and environmental concerns," the ruling said. The extreme unlikelihood of finding the drive in a salvageable condition combined with the near certainty of polluting the local community makes it a pretty clear decision to me.
- ghshephard 2y ago
  I don't get why there would be any risk of polluting the local community. Just create a second-landfill, properly lined - in exactly the same way thousands of landfills each year are created near to the first one - then just run an industrial-conveyor from Landfill A -> Landfill B. Create a spill-container underneath if you want to be 100% super certain 0.000% of pollution. Run at a reasonable rate - should be relative straightforward for a team to pick through the garbage, particularly because it's metal. This project gets rebooted when/if bitcoin hits $1mm.
  - aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
    It would be terrible for air pollution - this isn’t just a big pile of trash, it’s years of compacted municipal refuse that has to be excavated and pulled apart. If you dig through 100k tons of landfil, you will fill the surrounding air with toxic/pathogenic dust.
  - bagels 2y ago
    Liquids.
    - ssl-3 2y ago
      Monkey butter.
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callamdelaney 2y ago

They'd still need permission from the licensing authority technically, waste is a pretty highly regulated thing here and rightly so. Plus, this guy could be misremembering.

rubyfan 2y ago
Yeah a lot of us that knew of bitcoin but didn’t really get in to it seem to remember generating a coin or two but can’t remember where we left it.
- Breza 2y ago
  Agreed. I became interested in Bitcoin in 2013. In 2017 I realized it was never going mainstream for payments when I saw CNBC talking about it without one reference to actually using it as money. I've become pretty cynical about the movement since then, though I wouldn't mind stumbling upon an old private wallet.

thombat 2y ago

They'd need to provide sufficient confidence that they were going to continue to operate the landfill in accordance with all regulations, not just declare bankruptcy when the hunt is over and leave an unsafe mess and a financial black hole. Possibly the set intersection of treasure hunters with that character AND optimism that the drive remains useful is rather small.

Trasmatta 2y ago

> The council said that excavating the landfill site would let harmful substances escape into the environment, endangering residents with "potentially serious risks which raises public health issues and environmental concerns," the ruling said. The extreme unlikelihood of finding the drive in a salvageable condition combined with the near certainty of polluting the local community makes it a pretty clear decision to me.

ghshephard 2y ago
I don't get why there would be any risk of polluting the local community. Just create a second-landfill, properly lined - in exactly the same way thousands of landfills each year are created near to the first one - then just run an industrial-conveyor from Landfill A -> Landfill B. Create a spill-container underneath if you want to be 100% super certain 0.000% of pollution. Run at a reasonable rate - should be relative straightforward for a team to pick through the garbage, particularly because it's metal. This project gets rebooted when/if bitcoin hits $1mm.
- aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
  It would be terrible for air pollution - this isn’t just a big pile of trash, it’s years of compacted municipal refuse that has to be excavated and pulled apart. If you dig through 100k tons of landfil, you will fill the surrounding air with toxic/pathogenic dust.
- bagels 2y ago
  Liquids.
  - ssl-3 2y ago
    Monkey butter.

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