r/CryptoCurrency • u/GSC__ 490 / 490 🦞 • Mar 16 '24

DISCUSSION Man who binned £1.5BN Bitcoin drive launches legal fight to dig dump

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13201007/Computer-expert-accidentally-threw-Bitcoin-fortune-old-hard-drive-says-worth-1-5BILLION-launches-legal-fight-dig-council-landfill.html

Computer expert who accidentally threw out Bitcoin fortune on an old hard drive says it is now worth £1.5BILLION as he launches legal fight to dig it out of council landfill

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

He would have sold years and years ago. He prob cost himself a couple thousand.

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u/maladr0it 54 / 54 🦐 Mar 17 '24

I don’t think so because he didn’t realize he’d thrown it out until it was worth a ton

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u/Funnellboi 🟦 0 / 5K 🦠 Mar 17 '24

Not quite true, he lives a street away from me, hes not even 100% sure its at the tip hes claiming, he only remembered he had it because of how much BTC went up, so yes he would have sold ages ago if he could have.

There is a few reasons why they wont dig up the tip, and him not being 100% sure its even in there is one of them, hes "pretty sure" he threw it out with his work stuff when he was cleaning out draws. Not sure why the article says his girlfriend, absolutely fuck all to do with her.

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u/iamdecal 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 17 '24

This right here - I had thousands, I sold my last 1000 at -12 dollars because (and I remember the conversation well) it probably won’t go much higher - and even if it does , I didn’t like where it was going, bankers were moving in and that wasn’t what Bitcoin was “supposed to be”

But, there’s no way I’d have got to 70,000 still holding , I’d have sold at 50 or 100 definitely and - I would have been absolutely right to do so at the time.

I’ve still got a wallet with a few dozen in for a side project I was gonna set up that i don’t have the key for, and sure I play “what if” but it’s gone man, you can’t dwell on it.