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Cyclonepride

Cyclonepride

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"An early Bitcoin miner says he lost a fortune worth more than $700 million after his partner accidentally threw a hard drive containing 8,000 coins in a landfill dumpster more than a decade ago.

James Howells of Newport, Wales, has asked his local council if he can dig through its rubbish site to find the discarded hard drive—but he has been denied so far."

1. I'm guessing he is no longer with his partner

2. I would still be puking
 
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Cyclonepride said:

"An early Bitcoin miner says he lost a fortune worth more than $700 million after his partner accidentally threw a hard drive containing 8,000 coins in a landfill dumpster more than a decade ago.

James Howells of Newport, Wales, has asked his local council if he can dig through its rubbish site to find the discarded hard drive—but he has been denied so far."

1. I'm guessing he is no longer with his partner

2. I would still be puking
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To be fair, it wasn’t worth nearly that much a decade ago. It’s like the people that talk about owning rare baseball cards as a kid.
 
If someone were to actually find it, who would have the rights to it? It would have to be the owner of the landfill, wouldn't it? Once it's been thrown away, accidentally or on purpose, I believe that forfeits the original owners' claim. Any property law experts?
 
A decade ago? How many feet down would that be. Youd have to find a way to at least figure out the region your neighborhood gets dumped in first which would also be super difficult.
 
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I'd tell the landfill "either you give me access to look for it, or I'm going to come out publicly with the location of the landfill and you're going to have thousands of people looking for it".
 
bos said:
A decade ago? How many feet down would that be. Youd have to find a way to at least figure out the region your neighborhood gets dumped in first which would also be super difficult.
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Yeah, but its' $749 million.
 
bos said:
A decade ago? How many feet down would that be. Youd have to find a way to at least figure out the region your neighborhood gets dumped in first which would also be super difficult.
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Winner. Has anyone every been to a landfill? I have one about 15 miles away and they used to have us go up and drop off some stuff at the top of the hill. I was up there with the garbage trucks and such. It's a mountain, I mean hundreds of feet from where you drive in and if they dug a hole to start, you are looking at possible a quarter mile of rubbish that is compacted very deep so trucks and dozers can drive around on it. Then throw in that the pure heat from those basically would melt anything like that and decompose it and it is just a fallacy that it would still even be remotely intact.

Bigger question is why did they throw it out? Some pron that they didn't want anyone to see?
 
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Letterkenny said:
Yeah, but its' $749 million.
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Oh i get it, but there is no way local government will allow a citizen to rummage through years of dangerous waste. Even if they fill out some sort of form saying they wont sue if they are injured, it would never hold up. Lots of liability there.
 
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