The more people loose bitcoins, the more expensive it will get too.
Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
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Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#72There's a fair chance the drive is unreadable. Exposed to the elements, and when trash is put in a landfill it's not just dumped, it's mixed with earth and pushed around with bulldozers. I would not be surprised if it has been crushed. But who knows?
Its probably all right. I worked in landfills and dug up old trash in expanding a site. Unopened glass soda bottles from 30 years ago, books in great condition, metal lunch boxes in great shape. The lack of moisture means it just sits there. It depends on how deep it was buried when it came off the truck and it survived the first pass at burying.
"Does anyone have a power adapter for this notebook? the battery is dead...."
Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#73Ironically, some real mining might be needed to get those bitcoins back!
Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Laptop drives just aren't as useful as desktop drives (most towers can take 3-5 3.5" drives, most laptops can take exactly 1x 2.5"), and this particular platter was probably only 64-256GB?
Well, why not take a cheap case and have a nice, small, portable external.
That's what I do, also I found that USM cases are great, but I can't find them anywhere? It's just two pieces of plastic.. Grrr..
I have the USB 3.0 and thunderbolt adapters for the USM cases. Manufacturers should really switch to this format.
Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#75I have a 50 BTC wallet encrypted with a password I can't remember. Been meaning to figure out how to script something to run through variations on the type of password I would have used.
Talk to these guys, they're highly regarded in r/bitcoin and you can do it without compromising access to the coins: http://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/
Interesting. I'll have to give that a look. I figured someone would have come up with a service like this.
Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
When bitcoins are lost, are they lost forever? So the total pool of bitcoins will be 21m - your 160 and his 7000?
I'm pretty confident that in the future it will be possible to break abandoned wallets.
Break wallets encrypted with a passphrase, or crack private keys? The former is possible for weak passphrases, but if the latter is ever possible that's a Very Bad Thing for Bitcoin.
It may happen eventually, but hopefully we will have migrated to stronger crypto by then. I do wonder what will happen to abandoned coins at that point. Will they become invalid after a migration period, or will they be up for grabs to the fastest cracker?
Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#77There's a fair chance the drive is unreadable. Exposed to the elements, and when trash is put in a landfill it's not just dumped, it's mixed with earth and pushed around with bulldozers. I would not be surprised if it has been crushed. But who knows?
More than that, there would be tons of metals. The magnetic field generated would be enough to destroy any remaining data in the hdd.
Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#78ABCs of the data society we live in...Always Be Copying... your own data.. "Cmon son".
Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#79Offer a £1m cash reward to landfill owner
Re: Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's already set up a wallet to receive donations. Imaginary internet points. Exposure.
Collecting the donations changes everything. It seems like going to "the internet" with a sob story and a paypal account (or bitcoin wallet in this case) has been getting pretty popular recently, or at least has been getting more attention. I absolutely cannot understand why anybody would ever throw money at some unverified sob story...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6806056
I do; and I do it because I'm not completely cynical about the general public. I actually think most people are telling the truth. I could be very wrong, but nothing in my life has indicated as such. I have no idea what that indication would look like, but my default is to believe people unless I have a reason not to.