Lost Bitcoins Man is still trying

Rroff said:
Depends on the HDD - the chamber the platters are in can be hermetically sealed though that is less likely with consumer grade drives, the non sealed variants are designed to resist ingress of fluids/moisture and particles via filters but only to an extent - the filter will break down eventually. Usually there is only a small hole so in mixed waste a good chance something blocks the hole effectively sealing the drive internals - due to the design of many drives liquid water doesn't easily get in when the drive is fully submerged as the air can't easily be displaced but that varies drive to drive.

People seem to be thinking more about what makes a drive inoperable vs the data on the drive becoming unrecoverable.
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I suppose as long as it wasn't an IBM there is a slight chance.

If it was an IBM it probably wouldn't have survived being formatted initially ;) (I'm trying to remember if it was a member on here or on multiplay who ended up with a stack of dead drives as IBM stopped asking for them to be returned when they failed).
 
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I posted this late last year

tangey said:
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.
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But got shut down as not being practical. I remain convinced that the major issue is crediblity, who in their right mind, with enough money, is going to invest into buying and digging up the landfill, just because some random guy insists his GF dumped it out and it's definitely in there. If there was 100% certainty it was definitely there, it would be a massive risk given a) the chance of finding it and b)the chance of being able to recover the necessary date. But the biggest risk of all is that he is just mistaken.

They could spend years searching and determine it's not there and the guy would just shrug his shoulders and say " damnit, I was certain...must be somewhere else"
 
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tangey said:
They could spend years searching and determine it's not there and the guy would just shrug his shoulders and say " damnit, I was certain...must be somewhere else"
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and then you're clearing out the garage and you come across a crowbar and some tools you thought you'd lost and the wife swears blind she didn't put them in the most stupidest place because I left them lying around for a month by the washing machine.
 
i doubt he will ever recover this drive. but i hope he does and will rate the guy very highly and he will go down as a true legend. either way if he gets the site its gonna be some serious entertainment to see how it pans out, he could make more money in doing a documentary on nextflix or youtube for drive recovery.
 
I take it if he finds the drive he still needs the unique passcode to join it back to the block chain? That’s if the drive is intact?
 
Should have made a physical copy, or had it tattooed on to his arm.

Still think he'd make a lot of it back selling movie rights :D
 
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Nasher said:
Should have made a physical copy, or had it tattooed on to his arm.

Still think he'd make a lot of it back selling movie rights :D
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Final scene of the movie is shot from above, slowly pulling back to reveal him holding a shovel and shrinking to a dot in the middle of an endless ruined landscape of holes.
 
Or the distant future. His great grand kids are still searching for it.

I think the idea I said earlier. He finally has enough of the local council and he un-alives them all, then finds they had it all along.

"Based on a true story". Oscars will roll in.
 
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