Soldato
Everyone knows this but him it seems
Lost Bitcoins Man is still trying
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So secure I dont even know where they are.
He's hardly offering the money up-front. How's he going to fund this 'search'? He looks like he's sat in his parent's basement. It would cost millions to start digging up the landfill and storing and treating it. He's the one who lost it, not the council
Lol clown
His problem (other than the fact that he threw something away that is now worth £500M), is that he has clearly been totally unsuccessful in convincing anyone that it is there. As otherwise, somebody with a few £100M to spend would make an offer to buy the land for am amount the council couldn't refuse and search for it himself.
Far more likely the guy is a walter mitty, or indeed he did throw it away, but it's not in the dump.
Far more likely the guy is a walter mitty, or indeed he did throw it away, but it's not in the dump.
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Guy can't let it go.
I get it. Not sure I could either
I suppose this gives him a reason for being, a mission.
Accepting the loss might lead to him going to a really bad place.
Can easily see how this happened. I nearly did the same and by chance didn't throw mine away. Found it by chance when news of the price spiking happened.
He should be allowed to look to bring in some cash for Newport. Of course he'll never find it.
I get it. Not sure I could either
I suppose this gives him a reason for being, a mission.
Accepting the loss might lead to him going to a really bad place.
Can easily see how this happened. I nearly did the same and by chance didn't throw mine away. Found it by chance when news of the price spiking happened.
He should be allowed to look to bring in some cash for Newport. Of course he'll never find it.
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i get it, and i feel sorry for him.
but i bet a significant number of people on this forum have a similar - albeit likely less extreme - version of this.
when BTC 1st started i mined a bit to see what the fuss was about, i think i had half a dozen or so coins before deciding it was a total waste of time, effort and electricity and went back to SETI@home and Folding@home.
the computer with the coins on was formatted and that was that! no clue what my wallet address was or anything like that.
yes those coins were likely worth close to $500k now if i still had them, but who am i kidding, i would have sold them eagerly for £5 a pop years ago had i still had them!.
i would also follow it up with........... who puts a pc or even a HDD in landfill anyway? that was totally wasteful and should have gone to be disposed of correctly. #karma
but i bet a significant number of people on this forum have a similar - albeit likely less extreme - version of this.
when BTC 1st started i mined a bit to see what the fuss was about, i think i had half a dozen or so coins before deciding it was a total waste of time, effort and electricity and went back to SETI@home and Folding@home.
the computer with the coins on was formatted and that was that! no clue what my wallet address was or anything like that.
yes those coins were likely worth close to $500k now if i still had them, but who am i kidding, i would have sold them eagerly for £5 a pop years ago had i still had them!.
i would also follow it up with........... who puts a pc or even a HDD in landfill anyway? that was totally wasteful and should have gone to be disposed of correctly. #karma
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There was a thing on this. He has had people who would sponsor the search and costs who would obviously take a cut.
A lot of hate for the guy. I mean yeah he has no proof but...meh. Dunno.
What harm does it do though letting him search? EDIT: Environmental impact according to council
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You know this event occured in 2013 yeh ? Thats 11 years ago. It would be a lost cause.
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I bought 2 at about 200 each. I had them on an old laptop or something.
Then got into the news they were about 1000 each and I remembered having them.
I kept them until about 20-30k. I messed about trying to trade (which wasn't great).
In end I got rid of 80-90 percent of it for about 20k-25k or something which went into house deposit.
If I hasn't forgotten about them probably would have sold out earlier.
If I hadn't found them it would have been annoying.
.. Maybe I should sue someone for not telling me to buy 10. Because then if be on 500k now.
He certainly can't claim he lost 500mln.
But it probably would have been 100mln or something selling on the way up
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I'd say the time period is not that relevant. It's a needle in a haystack almost immediately regardless of time.
Caporegime
He should have learnt his lesson and spent the last decade or whatever just mining or reinvesting in it and he'd still be very well off.
He can't be doing too badly, he's sitting there in front of an Apple display and I heard he even quit his job at one point to concentrate on this "search".
He can't be doing too badly, he's sitting there in front of an Apple display and I heard he even quit his job at one point to concentrate on this "search".
I thought once they empty the skips at the rubbsih tip, then fill a hole in the ground which then gets covered over?
or in this case, metal and electrical stuff probably gets taken, and mulled in a machine, and then sold as scrap metal and then recycled and made in to a metal chair or something
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Why would you ever buy Bitcoin when you have a few thousand hidden away in a council owned trash dump
Yeah true. I don't know...at one point there was a video of him talking it through with some potential sponsors as highly likely it would be intact (i.e. not crushed up) and "simply" buried I thought based on the way the dump operates. Talk of machines that could even scan for hard drive looking objects. It just feels a bit like, given enough time and money, why wouldn't you find it? I know then there is the actual state of said hard drive and whether the data is recoverable but they are tougher than people often realise. Depends on the platter material.
Soldato
Will it ever be possible to generate a private key from a public one ? I hear infeasible not impossible
Caporegime
Surely everything has traceability these days so could be located to a certain area? You would think things like this would have been put in place to help with murders etc?
Then again council organizations leave a lot to be desired.
They probably have an access database on a baeige desktop computer caped in ash, somewhere at the back of a dirty old cabin on site. You know it's running Windows XP. The passwords are yellow stickied to the side of the 4:3 CRT monitor.
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maybe they are using an old harddrive on it that they fished out of landfill that had a shed load of BTC on......... hence why they dare not let anyone look for it