12 Years Ago:
“What are you guys all doing?”, “Looking for millions stored on a hard drive.”
Grabs metal detector, finds hard drive, wonders if should tell anyone…
Metal detector enthusiast who found a hard drive in the landfill 12 years ago:
“Yeah, I should get around to seeing what’s on that.”
lol lmao even
When I lost that $5 bitcoin someone tipped me on reddit in 2011 or so, I didn’t cry about it because I’m not a whiner like this guy.
Also it was because I formatted my machine and forgot to back up my wallet since it was my first one, so not as easy to restore especially with the limited knowledge I had at the time.
Just think about all the man hours that could have been dedicated to anything more useful than this waste of time.
I mean, there’s 5$ in Bitcoin and then there’s nearly a billion dollars in Bitcoin. NGL id probably do the same
That 5$ could have been about 15btc in the beginning of 2011, so 1.5M$ today
Still orders of magnitude in difference…
This hurts too much to read
Lmao and lol. I’ll never not laugh at this clown.
Why?
Because crypto is for clowns and this is exactly why. Fuck around, find out.
He wasted a decade plus of his life chasing a lost cause.
I’m confused. What’s the new development? Isn’t this where the story has always been?
He’s been suing to get access. This is the end of that.
It is worth the try. That is a generational wealth.
It’s also a futile attempt. In the off chance they even find it, that hard drive would be toast by then. In a landfill, that hard drive would prob be shattered and in pieces, not to mention probably corroded and unreadable.
It’s quite amazing how much data can be recovered from hard drives that have been even in fires. I think they recovered like 95% of the data from the hard drives on the challenger shuttle that blew up.
I’m sure those drives were highly specialized and protected like the “black box” data & flight recorders in aircraft. They almost certainly weren’t off the shelf drives from Seagate or Western Digital…
https://bringingcolumbiahome.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/columbias-black-box/
Magnetic tape.
That was Columbia, not Challenger, but if they were still using tape in 2003, they were definitely not using desktop drives in 1986.
I feel like this is an argument of Expected Value.
Ex. if the harddrive has $X on it, and there’s a Y% chance of finding it over the course of a lifetime, then the expected value of the search is X*Y). But if Y is so low that it would take 10 lifetimes to have a better than 50% chance (we’ll say a 6.5% chance if you searched your whole life), it doesn’t matter if X is $742 million (so that the Expected Value is about $50 million) or $742 billion, it’s still objectively a waste of a life.
Just being a Bitcoin user 12 years ago was a ticket to generational wealth.
The guy: “Obviously you can’t recover it without the password. So I’ll just hire people to help me search.”
Guy he hired: “I’m just gonna try my own luck with this hard drive. Huh it didn’t work. Well, I don’t want to get in trouble.”
