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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.
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.
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
Exactly, there's so many points where 99% cashed out
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.
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.
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.
That sounds rad we visited a steel spool factory and they didn’t let us take one home.
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.
But it's very much luck of the draw.
The "what if" probably wouldn't let this guy sleep.
At what point is it a mental disorder
It is sad that this guy just can't let go.
Honestly though, if he can preemptively put sufficient funds into escrow dedicated to managing all aspects of the site and engineering plans for digging with minimal perturbation of each waste cell, then let him have it*.
(* Escrow amount should be approximately $780m)
Dude needs to let go, it probably didn't even make it to the dump.
I was in 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 buys the dump and proves everyone wrong. He earned it
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.
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.
Oh I don't know, he's already in Newport hiyoooooooooooo
Let alone survive the crushing in the back of the dump truck
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.
His wife left him because he wouldn't stop talking about it and it became too much for her. very sad
He destroyed his life already. Probably a few others too.
Plot twist. It never even made it to the dump. His former partner saw the drive and took it before they split up.
He's gonna turn out like the granddad in the movie Holes
