If it was that easy to let it go he'd have done so already.
Depends on the drive and how it has ended up - the PCB might be toast, with potential drive encryption problems, but the internals may still be relatively protected.
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If it was that easy to let it go he'd have done so already.
Depends on the drive and how it has ended up - the PCB might be toast, with potential drive encryption problems, but the internals may still be relatively protected.
If some of you could bother to watch the video you'll see that 'experts' are involved who have recovered data off drives in worst states.
He has got together a team of experts who have done similar things and the people who will fund it.
The only major problem I see for the public, and having massive experience of a site close to me that friends are having problems with, is the smell when they start removing the landfill, I would hate for any one to go through what my friends go through every day.
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He just needs to bin the idea, it's a waste of time...
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Exactly this. All the funds up front in an account and a good chuck more for any clean up beyond what might be expected.
I'll be amazed if anyone would invest in this. That landfill has had massive compactors driving over and over it, day after day. That drive is toast.
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Man who binned £1.5BN Bitcoin drive launches legal fight to dig dump
James Howells (pictured), 38, made the calamitous mistake ten years ago when a misunderstanding saw his partner throw out as rubbish a black bin bag in which he was storing the Bitcoin hard drive.
Council now worried about treasure hunters at the site:
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Inside the council protected landfill hiding £1.5bn in Bitcoin
Early crypto investor James Howells, 38, made the calamitous mistake of accidentally throwing away 8,000 Bitcoins ten years ago.
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Those disk platters would be rusky lumps by now, a hdd can last decades in good conditions but out in the open with the elements not a chance in hell.
I know as I had 0.5 btc on a 120gb hdd from, 2013, after spending way too much time finding a working ide compatible system I was able to retrieve the bitcoin wallet and sell the bitcoin back in 2017, about 7k at the time of sale.
That drive was kept in an anti static bag in my spare room along with other PC parts.
I know as I had 0.5 btc on a 120gb hdd from, 2013, after spending way too much time finding a working ide compatible system I was able to retrieve the bitcoin wallet and sell the bitcoin back in 2017, about 7k at the time of sale.
That drive was kept in an anti static bag in my spare room along with other PC parts.
Some experts believe that by the end of the year the price will rise to $25,000 per coin. That would make my hard drive worth £1.5billion. The council may be happy to leave that in a landfill but I'm not.
btc could be 25k per coin soon
(thats from the latest dm article posted)
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I bet its under 10ft of waste , even if he knew down to the square meter he probably wouldn't find it.I'd love for some random 3rd party to find it, I can imagine the legal mess and finger pointing already
and if he did it's probably water damaged by now
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It's not necessarily out in the open though; was in a plastic bag. Whether that's torn or been crushed is another matter but that's just part of the risk for the investors to assess if he were to be granted permission.
If he knew down to the square meter he obviously would be able to find it manually without even getting into the proposed AI solution for sorting through the waste.
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Ask him about it all he is a member ere
Seriously?
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Plastic carrier bags have been bio degradable for over a decade, at lease until they were scrapped entirely.
You could ask this guy who didn't lose his drive, how he would feel if he did lose itSeriously?
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I think there was a few of them on here who didn't lose any drive
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IIRC they don't necessarily degrade when buried. I know there was an arkeological dig in IIRC NY on an old waste tip from the late 1800's and they apparently had to re-evaluate how long stuff lasted without decomposing when buried at landfill because they were finding huge amounts of newspapers that hadn't composted as expected.
I think current plastic bags still rely on light to help them degrade (IE if you leave them exposed to light they'll degrade much faster than in a dark area).
However in some ways something being buried in a plastic bag is worse for it than not being in a bag at all, as unless it is a fully sealed bag what you can end up with is the item basically sat in contaminated fluid pretty much permanently rather than it draining away to the natural water level but still some transfer of fluid in and out, which is even worse than just "idle" water, as it means the fluid is being replaced with stuff that might be more corrosive/have a higher oxygen content again (a lot of metals don't necessarily rust massively once the fluid they are in has hit a certain point for chemical makeup, for the same sort of reason if you're cleaning a kettle you might need to replace the white vinegar as it reaches a point where the alkalinity of the limescale has neutralised the acid in the vinegar)
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No the black bin bags he used, so again; whether that's torn or been crushed is another matter but that's just part of the risk for the investors to assess if he were to be granted permission.
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Er no they didn't. They would still have had the same amount of bitcoin they purchased. How would they have lost it...
In order for them to buy bitcoin, Someone had to sell, So the sellers didn't lose.
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same as every other currency backed by nothing, and that's pretty more how the stock market works now too (pure speculation plays based on what a company MIGHT be earning in 5 years time)
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