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Man who lost $800M Bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump

10 points by teleforce 2y ago

nomilk 2y ago
> offering Newport City Council more than $70 million to dig up the site What are the odds a HDD would be still be readable after being left outdoors for 12 years?
- chedabob 2y ago
  It won't spin but there's probably forensics teams out there that can get the data off for a lot less than $800M.
  - ttoinou 2y ago
    How do you prevent them from taking your crypto though ?
shouldkhs 2y ago
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- AlOwain 2y ago
  What pushes you into saying stuff like that?
  - cced 2y ago
    Lack of empathy for other humans.
    - icepat 2y ago
      What's more remarkable, is that the user created an account just to post this. Behavior like this on the internet always confuses me. RE: Empathy. I've known a few people who's digital footprints look like this in real life. It's usually not empathy that's the issue (well, _primary_ issue). There's usually a cluster of things that have gone sideways that leads someone to becoming the sort of person who does this sort of thing.
digikazi 2y ago
This was talked about on here just last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044
- paulddraper 2y ago
  And a few weeks before that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691913
adonovan 2y ago
Well this is a new kind of Bitcoin mining!
joshstrange 2y ago
There is no guarantee the hard drive is even in this landfill. Maybe someone swiped it out of his trash, maybe someone grabbed it out of the truck, maybe someone found it in the landfill a decade ago and took it home. The possibilities are endless, move on dude. I have 100BTC on a hard drive that I then formatted (back in 2010-ish), it sucks but you move on. Lastly, if not for throwing away the hard drive this guy would probably have a couple hundred dollars, maybe a couple thousand (from having sold it earlier). Instead he has a mythical $800M that will never materialize. I can't believe someone is actually that stupid so I assume this is a play for media attention, to what end I do not know (or care).

10 points by teleforce 2y ago

> offering Newport City Council more than $70 million to dig up the site What are the odds a HDD would be still be readable after being left outdoors for 12 years?

chedabob 2y ago
It won't spin but there's probably forensics teams out there that can get the data off for a lot less than $800M.
- ttoinou 2y ago
  How do you prevent them from taking your crypto though ?

shouldkhs 2y ago

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AlOwain 2y ago
What pushes you into saying stuff like that?
- cced 2y ago
  Lack of empathy for other humans.
  - icepat 2y ago
    What's more remarkable, is that the user created an account just to post this. Behavior like this on the internet always confuses me. RE: Empathy. I've known a few people who's digital footprints look like this in real life. It's usually not empathy that's the issue (well, _primary_ issue). There's usually a cluster of things that have gone sideways that leads someone to becoming the sort of person who does this sort of thing.

digikazi 2y ago

This was talked about on here just last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044

paulddraper 2y ago
And a few weeks before that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691913

adonovan 2y ago

Well this is a new kind of Bitcoin mining!

joshstrange 2y ago

There is no guarantee the hard drive is even in this landfill. Maybe someone swiped it out of his trash, maybe someone grabbed it out of the truck, maybe someone found it in the landfill a decade ago and took it home. The possibilities are endless, move on dude. I have 100BTC on a hard drive that I then formatted (back in 2010-ish), it sucks but you move on. Lastly, if not for throwing away the hard drive this guy would probably have a couple hundred dollars, maybe a couple thousand (from having sold it earlier). Instead he has a mythical $800M that will never materialize. I can't believe someone is actually that stupid so I assume this is a play for media attention, to what end I do not know (or care).