Man who lost $800M Bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump

> offering Newport City Council more than $70 million to dig up the site

What are the odds a HDD would be still be readable after being left outdoors for 12 years?

There is no guarantee the hard drive is even in this landfill. Maybe someone swiped it out of his trash, maybe someone grabbed it out of the truck, maybe someone found it in the landfill a decade ago and took it home. The possibilities are endless, move on dude.

I have 100BTC on a hard drive that I then formatted (back in 2010-ish), it sucks but you move on.

Lastly, if not for throwing away the hard drive this guy would probably have a couple hundred dollars, maybe a couple thousand (from having sold it earlier). Instead he has a mythical $800M that will never materialize. I can't believe someone is actually that stupid so I assume this is a play for media attention, to what end I do not know (or care).

This was talked about on here just last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044

Well this is a new kind of Bitcoin mining!