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Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill
(www.theguardian.com)
I hope he finds it so I can stop seeing headlines about it
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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Just imagine how his missus must feel!
This is gonna consume him to his grave.
If he'd taken all the money he's spent chasing this and just bought more coins he'd probably be a millionaire by now...
How come we have to talk about this prat every 4 weeks?
sunk-cost fallacy
Buried cost fallacy
Imagine thinking that drive is still in one piece after being crushed and left open to the elements.
Obsessing over this is gonna ruin the rest of his life.
Even if he did own the entire site, it would be illegal for him to dig in and disturb the waste due to environmental protection laws.
He should not an entire mining community around digging for the drive, complete with a male voice choir, Mike-Leigh-esque kitchen sink drama and social commentary. In the end the drive will be lost forever but the real treasure will be the vital and invigorating exploration of life in post-Empire, post-Thatcher Britain we made along the way.
He'd make more money from this as a movie idea than he ever would from digging for that fucking drive.
You jest, but that has potential.
I can't imagine the data would even be readable after all this time. Hard Drives ain't built to survive being in a tip for a decade, so the odds that water, corrosive liquid and gas got in there is pretty high. That layer that actually holds the data on the platter is incredibly delicate of course, so I wouldn't hold any hope that the platter could even be removed and read. Must be terrible to have to get up for work every day knowing what slipped through your fingers.