Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill

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2. Good thing he’s got all that money in bitcoin he can use to buy it….. Oh.

3. Funny thing is he’d be a millionaire if he just bought more bitcoin after learning his hard drive was thrown away. In summer 2013 Bitcoin was between $100 and $130, it’s up nearly 1000x since then.

4. Reading the article I think he has a bit of a point with this comment.

   “Howells, 39, said on Monday it had been “quite a surprise” to hear of the closure plan. He said: “It [the council] claimed at the high court that closing the landfill to allow me to search would have a huge detrimental impact on the people of Newport, whilst at the same time they were planning to close the landfill anyway.”

5. Give it up mate! It’ll be the death of you. Let it go.

6. He’s given up, this is an old article.

   *Edit*  the article is from today! He’s not given up! Why is he on news so much?!

7. I’m in two minds about this. I don’t want him to succeed because the situation is wonderfully absurd, and he looks so whiney in all the pictures. But I can’t help but feel for the guy too. The situation must be pure mental torture. It’s a sunk cost fallacy at this point. He’s in so deep that letting go would be near impossible.

8. I work at the site and have had a good look with one of my mates, he quit a couple of weeks later, got some job in south of France.

9. Wouldn’t it be funny if his Harddrive was actually taken to a different landfill.

10. Imagine if he finds some sort of investor to buy it. He’ll then either spend the rest of his life trying to look for it, or die because he’s not properly trained to handle waste.

11. Fuck it let him have a go at finding it. Then if/when he does find it, the state takes it all on behalf of having to hear about this tool every other week in the news.

12. On his deathbed, his last words will just be him screaming LANDFILL

13. Who’s to say it’s even in a recoverable state after years of being soaked in bin juice.

14. Twist, the gf never threw it away, she just got fed up with him on his computer all the time and she holds the hard drive

15. All future articles and posts about this topic should bear the headline “This dickhead again”, with no further text required.

16. Can we all chip in and buy this guy a nice watch or something? He needs to give this up lol

17. This can be turned into a movie at this point! This man never gives up.

18. I want him to find it and then realise he never bought it in the first place.

19. man that pendrive will be nothing more than rust at this point even if he finds it the data will be gone due to several years of the elements damaging it, move on for god sake.

20. Easy come, easy go.

21. Corrected headline: Attention-seeking idiot continues to come up with idiotic ideas, but we’re going to give him publicity anyway for some reason.

22. I’m convinced he’s being bank rolled by crypto bros who want to keep the Elusion of crypto going.

23. Wouldn’t the hard drive be completely unusable by now? I can’t see how any data could be recovered at this point?

    I do feel for him, though. I don’t think I would ever stop thinking about it if that were me.

24. Apparently the tip is closing.

    Won’t a legion of hopeful diggers descend on the site once it’s left? Unless he buys it and funds 24/7 security anyone will be over the fence digging.

    It will be the Newport Gold Rush.

25. The council should factor into the price the fact that the land contains a harddrive worth half a billion pounds.

26. It appears it is his only reason for living , he needs to let it go and just enjoy life .

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