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If someone wants to go dumpster diving in Cleveland, there is a Samsung 80 gig hard drive with about 120 Bitcoins on it. I won them from a tor gambling site after betting a single bitcoin that was given to me. They were selling for less than $.20 at the time so I didn't care enough to do anything with them when I scrapped my hard drive.

I obviously didn't foresee Cypress.

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Yeah, that tree was pretty unpredictable.

I've seen idle chatter about scouring the internet for posts from early bitcoin adpoters and offering to buy their old computers. And then of course searching the hard drives for forgotten wallets.

Not something I think anyone will actually do. Yet. But check those hard drives before you sell/donate any old PCs!

What is Cypress?

I think he means Cyprus?

>Cypress is the name applied to many plants in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is a conifer of northern temperate regions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress

An alternative spelling to Cyprus, Ciprus, Chipre, Cipris, etc. It is one of two anglicized versions that I know of, and I can never remember which version is more accepted.

Anyway...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%932013_Cypriot_fina...

What's the other anglicized version? "Cyprus" is the only correct spelling, as far as I know, and I'm Greek. Or are you referring to the transliteration, "Kypros"? That's pretty much never used (same with "Hellas" for Greece).

Cypress was a killer GPU firmware made by ATI that mined a lot of Bitcoins for me back in the day.

Cyprus on the other hand: that's a country that was just recently rocked by the world banksters.

Seriously, this is worth knowing more details. When did you lose it, where, and what else is on the drive?

There is more mining to be done of hard drives, indeed, in your average metropolis ..

I threw it in the garbage in Mentor Ohio back when the price was less than $0.20. You'd probably have more luck panhandling.

Sorry I'm a complete Bitcoin noob, but is there some way for you to recover them via their transaction ID, or get the seller to re-issue them to you?

Bitcoin is decentralized, no one can reissue bit coins because no one runs bitcoin. If he lost his private keys (his "wallet") than he looses all of the coins associated with it.

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