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Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

the only reason I'm not this guy is that my hard drive was landfill long before it arrived at the dump and was exposed to the elements for over a decade.

also my wallet was encrypted and there is no way in fuck I'm remembering the longest password I ever used.

I mined on CPU so what I lost was then pennies that currently amount to hundreds of billions so if there was even the smallest chance it could be recovered I'd be in this headline.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Also a cpu miner and it was in the hundredths of a cent per coin when I did it. It sucks but that drive is long gone and not worth it to fret over. It was also in the hundreds of millions at todays cost