Man Searches Through Landfill For 8 Years For $350 Million Lost Bitcoin Wallet

https://www.iflscience.com ^ | DECEMBER 16, 2021 | Jack Dunhill

[Red Badger]

PING!..................

[Candor7]

Dumpster Diving SAD!

[caver]

Around here, you are not allowed to dig in the landfill.
Of course, we had a woman ran over by a trash compactor years ago.

[PGR88]

Does he still remember the password?

[decal]

Someone silly enough to toss a harddrive without destroying it would use “password” for a password.

[Bobalu]

I know a geek who put some important data into a coffee table he built.

It was made of wood but on the top were hundreds of brand new shiny pennies that he covered using some kind of clear resin.

The data was stored as a bit pattern with heads up = 1, tails up = 0.

It was a pw...

[nascarnation]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Does he still remember the password?”

I’ll go out on a limb here. It’s “abc123.”

[Mr. K]

I think I’d pay a construction crew with an excavator $10 million to find it.

[Pollard]

Yep, all he needed to do was write down the 12 or 16 words on a piece of paper.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sorry,my sympathy meter is stuck at zero.

[plain talk]

“Sorry,my sympathy meter is stuck at zero.”

yeah ... maybe even below zero.

[GingisK]

Electronics degrades pretty fast in a landfill. He might find a corroded blob with empty plastic connector shells.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Gollum

[nascarnation]

Interesting. I thought stuff buried below XX feet didn’t degrade very much due to lack of of oxygen?

[SamAdams76]

That is a sad story. I hope he finds his $357 million amidst all that trash in the landfill.

[Carriage Hill]

Landfill Lounger looking for the lost. Gone for good.

[V K Lee]

Ping!

[NohSpinZone]

Let the treasure hunt commence!