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Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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But boy, if he does...
This is such a monkeys paw. You have a drive with $500 million USD of Bitcoin, but the drive is somewhere in the local landfill.
Such a curse, I can't imagine the regret they feel every day getting up for work.
After 10 years though, isn't it just gone/destroyed? Rain/corrosion would have destroyed the drive by now.
It's already corroded from the factory...hard drive platters use iron oxide. Can't rust rust. The mechanical bits may be trashed but the platter can most likely still be read with specialized recovery equipment.
Who could you even trust to send the drive to? Anyone who could read it could take the money and just claim it couldn’t be recovered.
I mean, companies exist specifically to do this for other big companies, I'm sure there are security procedures, background checks, NDAs and everything that needs to go with that.
Data recovery specialists exist, and nobody would pay for them if the data they were recovering wasn't, you know, valuable enough to pay a specialist to maybe retrieve it. They probably deal with multimillion dollar industrial/financial/business secrets all the time, and do it discreetly, or else their business wouldn't even exist.