is that guy still rummaging the dump?

[vapourminer]

There are 3 myths that I know about Bitcoin. The first is the person who trashed this hard drive. the second one is the person who paid 1000 Btc for 1 Pizza and the other is the person who received 200 Btc for a job he did on time but lost his password. If I am not mistaken, this person had a certain right to try his password, the last 2 rights were left, if those statements were negative, a large amount would be garbage.

not myths

1. this thread

2. pizza: https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Laszlo_Hanyecz

3.   2 tries left: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55645408

[Hispo]

I just find that guy's story simply heartbreaking, the fact he continues looking for that HDD to this day and all this situation started because his mistake.
If only he was more careful when he needed to be, he would be enjoying his early retirement in a lovely tropical island or in a luxurious apartment in a Japanese metropolis, but instead, in this timeline he finds himself swimming in garbage for years, handing over half of the possible reward to some corporation in exchange for help. Life can be cruel sometimes.

I don't know how I would feel if I was in his shoes, I would need several bottles of rum to keep going with the search. 

[teosanru]

Do you guys remember that guy who well before btc had its first highs threw away a hard-disk with btc which became worth millions and he went to rummage the landfill looking for it and also offered a slice of btc to the city council if it helped him find it?

Is he still looking for it?        

Really ? Is this a true story? I have never heard of it but really sounds interesting to me. I googled about it and found the article which mentioned about this incident but there were no updates on this incident no further articles so it looks as if he was not able to find it. But there is a big chance that it would have gone into pieces while it was sent to the trash dump area.

[kryptqnick]

Landfills are just generally a bad thing, something humans must be swiftly moving away from. They are harmful to the environment themselves, but is there research on additional damage that digging into them can do, on which scale and why? It seems the city council denied the request of digging there to look for the drive, despite a commitment to donate $70 million in case of successful recovery (referring here to the story which Dave1 referred to), but I can't find information on how digging in one area of a landfill can be harmful to the environment on its own.

[coolcoinz]

It looks like this is him https://twitter.com/howelzy

I remember reading about him in 2016 and at the time he was already looking for the hard drive. Imagine if he were to take a loan back then and start buying BTC for $300, or sold his car and whatever unwanted stuff he had and converted all that into bitcoin. At the time it was pretty easy to get 100 BTC which would be enough to live happily ever after and forget about that buried treasure.

I hope he finds it though. The city should strike a deal with him that he does some recycling or segregates whatever he digs through. This would be a win - win scenario.

[Captain Corporate]

Honestly, I do not know what happened to him, but he is certainly not the only one. Do you really imagine that all the coins mined or bought back in those days were kept in wallets and still held today? Hell I got in in late 2012 and I do not have my bitcoins, I sold them all, I have recently bought some more, and have some savings, but nothing huge at all, if I kept the ones I earned, I would have 100+ bitcoins right now easily, which is a huge ton of money in Turkey, so it should not be really a shocking result to know that there are some people like this guy who would consider it as useless for sure.

[serjent05]

This event makes me think that time will come when people will rummage through landfills looking of HDDs to check if it has BTC inside it.  Looks like gold mining but instead of excavating mountains and lands, this kind of activity excavates mountains of trash. and further makes me think Bitcoin being mined in two different approaches, virtual mining and landfill mining. 

Anyway, I also think that the HDD had already corroded and possibly crashed or shredded.  Its been a decade so I think it is somehow impossible to get that HDD back.