Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried
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Re: Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried
#2Every time I hear about this guy I picture him finding his lost treasure right as BTC goes back under $1.
Re: Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried
#3Discussion (37 points, 1 day ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044
Re: Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried
#4I wonder if there is a system to dumps where they can kinda triangulate an area and general depth to a calendar of when things were put there?
Talk about a needle in a haystack.
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#5What are the odds that a laptop, having spent 12 years in the elements and probably under huge amounts of slimy weight, would even operate or have a functional drive if by some miracle he was able to find it? I honestly don't know, but it just feels like the entire thing would be fried.
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#6He should post the ultimate "prove you are a psychic" challenge. People claiming to be "psychic" or such power, can get 100 million$ if they are right at finding the drive.
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#7What are the odds that a laptop, having spent 12 years in the elements and probably under huge amounts of slimy weight, would even operate or have a functional drive if by some miracle he was able to find it? I honestly don't know, but it just feels like the entire thing would be fried.
There's companies that open them up in a clean room and magnetically image the disk. Not cheap, but I think worth it in this case.
Re: Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried
#8I wonder if there is a system to dumps where they can kinda triangulate an area and general depth to a calendar of when things were put there? Talk about a needle in a haystack.
Yes, they generally can.
Re: Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried
#9What are the odds that a laptop, having spent 12 years in the elements and probably under huge amounts of slimy weight, would even operate or have a functional drive if by some miracle he was able to find it? I honestly don't know, but it just feels like the entire thing would be fried.
There's companies that open them up in a clean room and magnetically image the disk. Not cheap, but I think worth it in this case.
It's not always successful though, making this a huge speculative case. That's even assuming it made it to the landfill and someone didn't pick it out first.
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#10My heart genuinely goes out to him. Not merely for losing the bitcoin. The idea of trying to negotiate a search (or purchase) of the dump with the risk avoidant jobsworth council bureaucrats of a mid sized British town is spine chilling.