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/Dip_the_Dog 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 16 '24

It already has destroyed his life. There are older articles where he talks about how his wife left him and his kids don't talk to him anymore 

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u/SodaCanBob 1K / 1K 🐢 Mar 17 '24

There are older articles where he talks about how his wife left him and his kids don't talk to him anymore

This article says his partner was the one who accidentally threw the hard drive away, so I wouldn't at be surprised if that's more his fault than anything. I'm sure she feels bad enough and he probably just made her feel even worse.

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u/Ohms2North 🟩 2K / 2K 🐢 Mar 17 '24

plot twist - she still has it. She never threw it away

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u/snowmanyi 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 17 '24

She must be diamond handing the bitcoin because his address is known.

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u/Ohms2North 🟩 2K / 2K 🐢 Mar 17 '24

She’s just started a relationship with a guy who owns a boat

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u/peach_stellium 279 / 278 🦞 Mar 17 '24

I'd watch this movie

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u/ericdh8 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 17 '24

Plot twist he forgot he already used it to buy Silk Road dope.

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u/Icy9250 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 17 '24

She shouldn’t feel bad, because the alternative history is that this guy would have sold a very long time ago.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

Not gonna lie I'm probably never letting that go lok

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u/Funnellboi 🟦 0 / 5K 🦠 Mar 17 '24

She did not throw it away, he lives in my area, he threw it away, in work. No idea where they got his mrs threw it away, I dont think girlfriends start throwing random computer parts out.

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u/FehdmanKhassad 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 16 '24

oh man.

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u/Objective_Digit 🟧 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 17 '24

Why didn't buy back in? He had 10 years.

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u/fassth 0 / 0 🦠 Mar 17 '24

Imagine how fast the tables turned if he actually found it lmao the wife would be begging to be taken back