5mo ago

Man Trying to Buy Entire Landfill to Recover Lost Bitcoin Hard Drive

5mo ago

Man Trying to Buy Entire Landfill to Recover Lost Bitcoin Hard Drive

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A few years ago I had a virus on my computer(Windows)(the virus was definitely my fault) and decided to put a wallet with almost 1k USD on it. It got sucked straight out and through a mixer, never to be seen again. Some lessons you have to learn the hard way :(
- It takes a couple of clicks through to BBC articles, but it turns out that even if he were to find it, he has no legal right to it and also would have no legal right to mine the landfill.
  But James Goudie KC, for the council, argued that existing laws meant the hard drive had become its property when it entered the landfill site. It also said that its environmental permits would forbid any attempt to excavate the site to search for the hard drive.
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0r0dvgpy0o
  
  Not to mention the fact the drive is almost certainly dead.
Is this the guy?
Almost wish the guy would find it so this non-news story would stop making the rounds every few weeks with no new details. Doesn’t even tickle my sense of schadenfreude anymore.
For months over and over again with this story. 🕳
That thumbdrive is probably rusty beyond repair.
https://youtu.be/eWu-32hR4GY
Is this loss?

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