This guy's hard drive with $500 million in bitcoin is lost at a dump, and local officials won't let him retrieve it

Even if he could somehow effectively sort the many tons of refuse, a landfill that size that’s been open that long probably has hundreds, if not more, other hard drives that were thrown out by other people. If he didn’t have a way of being certain which was his just by looking at it, that means he’d need to view the private data of many other people just to find his drive. Not cool.

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