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Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Even if Howells was able to somehow find the drive, it's been sitting in a landfill for more than a decade. Still, his team of experts believe there is about an 80 percent chance that data from the drive would be recoverable.

Is this copium?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he's sure it's the right drive.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Its not like i am naive to economy but i cant help but see this:

Ape spends time and energy to convinces other apes to spend time, energy and resources, potentially sacrifice some of the environment and cause hinder to the local population. To dig for a metallic object discarded a decade ago so they can with some hope extract a codestring of information which will unlock some other strings of 0 and 1 that we then collectively agree on means this person has x many digital object which we all agree on has x economic value.

And if they succeed they will al smile because this is winning.

Here is sm either more radical/normal, depending on your perspective. Take the drive that has the wallet/or make it a physical one. Place it in a museum and name it “x Bitcoins”. Value recovered and nothing was lost.

Humans are weird.