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

Maybe laws are different in Wales, but I believe that anything that is in the landfill belongs to the municipality. He gave it to them when he binned it. In any case, sifting through a landfill would require a large hazmat team and cost millions to find it. And glass hard drives are not as tough as they are cracked up to be.

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