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

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

[butlerweave]

You fool it’s not on the hard drive ,LOL

[V K Lee]

This would most definitely be an occurrence repeated here
at least once. The main deterrent in moving forward.

When one has so little knowledge, it’s best to avoid any transaction until well schooled on the subject. That’s quite a nest egg to be lost and never seen again.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

... Had he offered it to me, I’d have gladly accepted (for the children, you understand)

[metmom]

My m-i-l lost some very valuable jewelry which turned out, years later when it was found, to have slipped down into the couch cushions, way down where the arm of the couch is connected to the seat.

It was found by someone just checking before vacuuming it out, like every parent with kids does who doesn’t want to vacuum up toys or coins.

[SaxxonWoods]

Most everything we do consists of taking things off of or out of the ground, and everything we take off of or out of the ground ends up...back on or in the ground.

[NautiNurse]

Great story!

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Bitcoin is untraceable and you couldn’t back-up your wallet in the early days of mining.

False and false. Every bitcoin transaction in history is recorded in its open ledger. And bitcoin's code hasn't changed since Day 1. The dumpster diver here doesn't know the passkey to his public bitcoin address and may not even know the public address of his lost bitcoins. And he's not the only one. Thousands of bitcoins were lost forever in the early days of mining when they weren't worth anything.

[pingman]

Thanks. I can certainly “feel his pain”, but only from the waist up!

[Chode]

i hope they dug test holes looking for addresses and dates on letters, magazines etc

[Revel]

That hard drive would be toast by now.

[Coleus]

bad mistake, very careless

[rlmorel]

Heh, funny you would say that. I am losing weight (just getting older) and my rings are floating all around...the one I lost recently, my wife found it between cushions in my favorite chair. The time before that, we had to go back to a parking lot and look around, and it had just fallen off and we found it. I don’t think we will find this one, though.

I have a ring guard on my wedding band, I would be heartbroken to lose that.

[Candor7]

I celebrate that you found it.

[FLT-bird]

When Bitcoin first came out it was worth almost nothing. One guy famously bought a couple pizzas with thousands of bitcoin back in 2010. At today’s prices, those pizzas cost him more than $250 million each.

[wastedyears]

Give Jenny a call

[Red Badger]

I don’t know about other states, but Florida lottery scratch-off tickets expire 6 months after the game ends. We had some
winning tickets rejected because they were too old..................

[Red Badger]

UK........................

[Red Badger]

“True wealth comes from out of the ground.” - old adage.
Apparently this is true........................

[rlmorel]

LOL, it doesn’t do those junkies any good when they look at the tickets under glass, though...:)