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Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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You really don't want to set precedent here. What if any random person starts having hallucinations about hard drives being lost in the trash. You don't want anybody to have the right to dig up your landfill
I'm not seeing a negative here? As long as they accept liability why shouldn't someone be able to dig through landfill?
the potential liability exceeds the value of what they're searching for.