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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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The thing is, if he had access to his hard drive at any point in the last 10 years or so he would have sold his Bitcoin long before it was this valuable, like many, many other people who used to own Bitcoin and aren't currently millionaires. The fact that he lost his hard drive is the only reason it's actually worth anything.
That's a really good point. So many of my friends who used silk road would be multimillionaires if they didn't spend the btc.