Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site
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Let alone survive the crushing in the back of the dump truck
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There is no way the storage medium survived all of that time in a dump. If it made it that far, it's probably crushed, turned to rust, or both. It's a lost cause.
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Oh I don't know, he's already in Newport hiyoooooooooooo
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The "what if" probably wouldn't let this guy sleep.
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I was on the "he needs to let it go" camp for the last 10 years. You know what? I'm changing sides. I choose to live in the timeline where garbage bitcoin man becomes the richest man alive.
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Plot twist. It never even made it to the dump. His former partner saw the drive and took it before they split up.
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This guy just needs to let this go! He’s wasting his life on this. Even if he finds it in the next decade - honestly I’m not sure it’s worth it.
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I'm happy i never got involved with bitcoin. I remember being mildly interested but decided to not bother. If i had a drive with almost billion on it and i had lost it or just not able to access it, it would dig at me too even if i tried to just let it go.
Damn, money really is the root of all evil.
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I don't want him to find it because I want the over-the-top movie dramatization of that guy's descent into madness.
He can have part of the movie revenues, if he's smart.
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In the mid 1980s I visited a landfill as part of a school project. They took a back hoe and plowed over a mound and pulled out legible newspapers from the early 1960s. A kid found a working radio. You might be surprised how well some things get preserved in landfills.
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I messed around with bitcoin in like 2011. It seemed valueless because there were very few USD markets for it. Anyway I used to play a game where every action was a gambling mechanic in full bitcoin. Want to kick a coconut tree? It costs 1 BTC and 0-4 will drop. I had 100s of BTC at one point.
Anyway the computer had issues and then the hard drive was taken by a family member. I don't get too upset thinking about them because I would have just spent them once they had real value.
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His wife left him because he wouldn't stop talking about it and it became too much for her. very sad
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I have a friend in NYC who searches his entire apartment every year or two because he had a few BTC on an old thumb drive. It is a bummer that he lost it.
I got some dogecoin at a one cent and sold it in the twenties, which was a nice little gain, but nothing huge like being an early BTC holder.
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Nah. I'm in the "everyone involved in crypto needs repeatedly swift kicks in the nads" camp but spending the rest of your life digging in a garbage dump looking for gold is also acceptable.
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He destroyed his life already. Probably a few others too.
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At what point is it a mental disorder
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That sounds rad we visited a steel spool factory and they didn’t let us take one home.
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They let the kid take the radio because he said he could fix it and they wanted to distract us from the box of playboys also uncovered by the backhoe.
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fr, i remember being mind blown when bitcoin hit £240.
If i had had some at that point i probs would have cashed out.
My old housemate lost like half a dozen btc in the Mt.Gox collapse
