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After 12 Years of Failed Attempts, the Man Who Lost His Hard Drive Containing $742M in Bitcoin Finally Ends His Search (www.paris2018.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.cafe to c/bitcoin

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[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That HDD was unrecoverable years ago.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You mean on a technical level or on a "It's physically lost forever" level?

Because had he found it, the chances for recovery would have been fairly decent...if he was able to locate it...

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

After 12 years in a landfill that drive would be full of garbage soup. I've taken plenty of drives apart, and they aren't completely sealed.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago

Oh it'd be a job for a top tier professional recovery service, it would be expensive I'm sure, but if we're talking almost a billion....a couple thousand would be nothing lol

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