My favorite part of these articles is that the total value he lost keeps getting updated to reflect the current price of bitcoin.
This will play out like a Black Mirror episode. I’m calling it. The day he finds that drive is the day before bitcoin crashes and is worth $4.35 per coin.
At this point even if he finds the drive I can’t imagine it’s survived this long in a dump. No reason to throw good money after bad just to find a dead drive. Although I imagine at this point it’s so emotionally charged that there’s not a lot of logical decision making being made.
I can’t imagine it’s survived this long in a dump
It likely didn’t even survive the truck that the trash was taken away in. The hydraulic crusher on those trucks can, and will bend the drive… shattering the platters inside.
This guy is dumb.
Yeah, he is only interested in recovering it for personal gain. If that guy found his drive, it would harm Bitcoin price and hence, credibility
I saw one like this where a guy hired a hacker to get into his encrypted wallet device because he was sure it had like $100k in it. Guy broke in, pulled up the Bitcoin wallet and… It was empty. Dude had forgotten that he sold all his Bitcoin YEARS ago.
I was once paid in bitcoin. It was like 1 bitcoin worth about $20. There was nothing to spend it on. I lost track of it. Now that coin would be worth about $100,000. Crazy.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard a story like that I’d have a bitcoin
I used to have a little BTC back when faucets were still a thing. Managed to make a decent trade later on but nothing groundbreaking.
