What are the chances the hard drive would still be readable, I wonder?
And keep backups, folks.
I would be shocked if it was still readable. He probably had a shot very early on, but now? Seems hopeless.
a surprising ammount data can be gotten off surprisingly damaged drives, there is always the possibility, thats why it took a delte/write/delete/write process, a rare earth magnet, 3 guys, a sledge hammer, and a industrial shredder to throw away a hard drive in the army.
Even trying to recovery half a private key seems like it would be quit a challenge?
It depends how it was stored. If it is just raw dogging the garbage pile? The odds get very low but, theoretically, it is just a matter of very carefully the drive before booting it up. Think “data forensics”
If it was stored in a plastic bag or box? Then it is about as safe as a drive in your closet that you haven’t spun up in over a decade.
It gets compacted in the garbage truck and compacted some more at the landfill. I think the odds are slim it could be found in one piece
garbage truck compacting isn’t really that much, check out what it looks like when they dump it. lots of stuff doesn’t get exposed.
The drive would have been fed to the incinerator where I live. We don’t use a dump, we have a huge waste to power transfer station.
Compacting at a landfill however ….
Dumped out of the truck into probably another sorting area where machinery pushes through it potentially prying out large salvage pieces for scrap, or destructively breaking it apart by driving through and over it.
Over, and over, and over, and over.
Different landfills have different policies/procedures.
Like I said, the odds aren’t great. But if there was ever any chance of finding it, this isn’t the kind of system where things are getting cubed every step of the way. And once there is a layer or two of trash above it (making finding said drive nigh impossible), it is going to be pretty protected from even heavy duty constructicons driving over it.
it is just a matter of very carefully the drive before booting it up
I’m curious about what the missing word is. Cleaning? Inspecting?
the only reason I’m not this guy is that my hard drive was landfill long before it arrived at the dump and was exposed to the elements for over a decade.
also my wallet was encrypted and there is no way in fuck I’m remembering the longest password I ever used.
I mined on CPU so what I lost was then pennies that currently amount to hundreds of billions so if there was even the smallest chance it could be recovered I’d be in this headline.
Also a cpu miner and it was in the hundredths of a cent per coin when I did it. It sucks but that drive is long gone and not worth it to fret over. It was also in the hundreds of millions at todays cost
You’d be surprised what’s recoverable, especially if it’s an HDD.
There was a recovery service I could send customer drives to that could recover a drive in a fire, flood, buried, shattered etc. The question was, how much did you want to pay for the service. One quote came back over 75k.
this guy is a character in red dead redemption
Everything Is Coming Together. Exactly As I Planned.
Actual Bitcoin mining is a lot like sifting through a trash heap
Thats a really harsh description for crypto-bros.
What if this hard-drive is actually not within this landfill ;P
What if it is and it became unrecoverable ages ago?
it would be kinda funny that he actually found his drive again. But the data is indeed fully gone.
Sad story.
That’s enough money to have a good life and provide a good life to your loved ones. If he never finds it, he is a crazy man. If he finds it he is a smart man. A normal person can’t earn that much in a lifetime. Even a miniscule chance of finding it could drive someone to obsession.
For the sake of his sanity, and for a good story, I hope he finds it, but I doubt he will.
Check out Rai stones.
Although the ownership of a particular stone might change, the stone itself is rarely moved due to its weight and risk of damage. Thus the physical location of a stone was often not significant: ownership was established by shared agreement and could be transferred even without physical access to the stone. Each large stone had an oral history that included the names of previous owners.
In one instance, a large rai being transported by canoe and outrigger was accidentally dropped and sank to the sea floor. Although it was never seen again, everyone agreed that the rai must still be there, so it continued to be transacted as any other stone.
My dad lives on Yap for a few years as a kid. My grandparents had a 2’ diameter rai stone until they died. It’s with my aunt now.
Enough money? It’s three quarters of a billion… That’s an unreasonably large amount.
It’s spent like a decade in a rainy landfill in Wales.
Even if he finds it, it’s fucked.
Landfill design is really interesting, and hard drives are very well sealed and aluminum. It would be sitting in a fairly well drained spot, if the seal was not perforated during compaction there’s a good chance the platters are readable.
Hard drives are not sealed, unless they’re helium drives. They have breather holes to equalize pressure, and rubber seals around the data interface that can degrade.
And that doesn’t count being crushed in a garbage truck or other heavy equipment.
With his monkey paw luck, he’d find it just as Bitcoin crashes and loses nearly all value somehow
Old memes, hot nudes and millions in bitcoin, Har D. Drive achieved all of it. “My treasures? You can have yhem if you’ll find them. Come find them in the abandoned privatized landfill!”
I have 3 dd dumps hanging out on my array waiting for a rainy day
I’m Cap’n Raw D. Awg and imma be caPn oh the piRarates!!!
Now you have my attention. This dude could get lots of people to search for free in the promise they’d get some scraps. I know two homeless dudes on the corner that would do this
A gold-digger
He ain’t messin with no
Can Elmo say the word if Elmo is singing his favorite song?
Imagine elmo singing
face down, ass up, thats the way elmo likes to fuck!!!
That takes some effort to work into foreplay, especially with the voice.
I mean, if he also wants to take on the costs of doing all the remediation work and ongoing maintenance and surveillance for the rest of time that’s probably a good deal for the city
That thumbnail though, lmao.
I hate this timeline.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
What ever happened to the dude who had millions of coins stored on a password protected drive that he forgot the password to and was on his last attempt to unlock it?
I think he hired someone who found an exploit that then allowed a brute force technique at it actually got unlocked . The person hired got a percentage of the money.
What are the odds that even if he finds that thumb drive that it even still works? LOL buy it dumbass, let us all know how that works out for you.
Very low. I think he dropped below the break-even point on this several years ago.
Thing is, the drive increases in value all the time.
Thing is, the drive data retention decreases over time
Yeah but theres no way of knowing if its viable or not at this point, so the only known factor is the value of BTC and the cost of money spent searching for the drive. Even if it fails break even (cost > value) that changes over time.
Was it a thumb drive? I thought it was a hard drive. Might even still be attached to the motherboard in a desktop.
If it’s a traditional hard drive with moving parts the chances of it still working are zero. Data recovery maybe possible if the platters are still somewhat intact but I doubt he’d even find it to begin with.
It’ll likely be ruined either way. Municipal waste is a mix of solids and liquids that gets crushed, shoved, and tumbled around before being compacted down by heavy treads and buried in layers. Anything electronic is likely to be damaged in all that.
That guy’s a nut. All that effort would be better spent doing something useful with the money he keeps blowing.
He’ll find it just before the end of his life, having ultimately spent $780,000,000.01 to succeed.
This is just a modern iteration of the book HOLES, and it takes place in a landfill instead of a dry lakebed.
I never read or watched Holes, is it any good?
Actually, yeah, it’s pretty fun for what it is. 78% Rotten Tomatoes/76% User Score, for reference. 7.0 on imdb.
I never saw it but read it. Yes, 10/10, highly recommend.
The book and movie are both pretty good I think
