| Bitcoin in landfill 13:28 - Feb 10 with 8343 views | Zx1988 |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3eg3n11gvo
I appreciate that £600m is a heck of a lot of money, and he's probably being goaded on by the 'investors' standing behind him, but I think this chap just needs to write it off as a lost cause and a life lesson now.
Even my fairly basic A-Level law taught me that rubbish becomes the property of the council/refuse company once disposed of, so his claim was always bound to fail. I hate to think how much public time and money has been wasted by the local council having to fight his spurious legal claims.
Even if he does find them, I don't hold out much hope for the hard drives after having marinated in bin juice for goodness knows how long. |  |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:31 - Feb 10 with 4338 views | BlueBadger |
Silly sod should have invested in something real. Like magic beans or unicorn ivory. Much better return to be had there. |  |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:36 - Feb 10 with 4283 views | Deano69 |
Pretty sure this story has been on and off for some time. I'll bet dinner times were interesting with his ex... |  |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:40 - Feb 10 with 4226 views | Zx1988 |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:36 - Feb 10 by Deano69 |
Pretty sure this story has been on and off for some time. I'll bet dinner times were interesting with his ex... |
A few years, I think. Keeps getting told no, and keeps coming back with his next scheme to try and get access. | |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:43 - Feb 10 with 4195 views | blueasfook |
Britain's unluckiest bloke for sure! I've been following this story for a long while. He's been trying for years to get the council to let him dig up the tip to look for the hard drive. If it was found, the data is stored magnetically so as long as its not totally destroyed there is a reasonable chance the data could be recovered. But finding it among years of landfill waste will be a task in itself. |  |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:45 - Feb 10 with 4163 views | J2BLUE |
Pretty easy to say when it wasn't your money.
£600m to secure your family for generations. Even if he promises half of it to random others and finds it, it's huge. I would be fighting for it as well. |  |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:48 - Feb 10 with 4130 views | Deano69 |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:45 - Feb 10 by J2BLUE |
Pretty easy to say when it wasn't your money.
£600m to secure your family for generations. Even if he promises half of it to random others and finds it, it's huge. I would be fighting for it as well. |
You could hire quite a workforce to search for it with that sort of potential reward | |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:08 - Feb 10 with 4005 views | keighleyblue |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:45 - Feb 10 by J2BLUE |
Pretty easy to say when it wasn't your money.
£600m to secure your family for generations. Even if he promises half of it to random others and finds it, it's huge. I would be fighting for it as well. |
sell it to him for 600m.
I have zero sympathy |  | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:10 - Feb 10 with 3997 views | leitrimblue |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:43 - Feb 10 by blueasfook |
Britain's unluckiest bloke for sure! I've been following this story for a long while. He's been trying for years to get the council to let him dig up the tip to look for the hard drive. If it was found, the data is stored magnetically so as long as its not totally destroyed there is a reasonable chance the data could be recovered. But finding it among years of landfill waste will be a task in itself. |
Exactly, how do you go through a 100,000 tons of landfill searching for something so small?
Would the hard drive contain enough metal for it to give a reading with a metal detector?
The only other way I can think of tackling it is to get hundreds of lads in on minimum wage to shovel it into sieves and get sieving.
But how would you know they not gonna keep it if they find it? |  | | |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:25 - Feb 10 with 3864 views | EdwardStone |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:10 - Feb 10 by leitrimblue |
Exactly, how do you go through a 100,000 tons of landfill searching for something so small?
Would the hard drive contain enough metal for it to give a reading with a metal detector?
The only other way I can think of tackling it is to get hundreds of lads in on minimum wage to shovel it into sieves and get sieving.
But how would you know they not gonna keep it if they find it? |
Apparently landfill is more organised than you would believe. The garbage is dropped off in a specific place every day, all surveyed, measured and monitored.
Because he knew exactly when it had been put there, the location is reasonably accurately known within the site
Whether it would still be in good enough condition to retrieve the data is perhaps another question |  | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:31 - Feb 10 with 3825 views | leitrimblue |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:25 - Feb 10 by EdwardStone |
Apparently landfill is more organised than you would believe. The garbage is dropped off in a specific place every day, all surveyed, measured and monitored.
Because he knew exactly when it had been put there, the location is reasonably accurately known within the site
Whether it would still be in good enough condition to retrieve the data is perhaps another question |
OK, so they would know the rough area? That would surely help even if it narrowed it down to 20-30 meter square. Would just be a matter of slowly going down through the layers and sieving with through what's there. Easy  | | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:36 - Feb 10 with 3794 views | Zx1988 |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:45 - Feb 10 by J2BLUE |
Pretty easy to say when it wasn't your money.
£600m to secure your family for generations. Even if he promises half of it to random others and finds it, it's huge. I would be fighting for it as well. |
It's not so much wanting to try and chase the money, it's the fact that the law is painfully clear on the ownership of items in a bin/skip once collected by a licensed waste carrier.
You put an item in the bin, the council collects it, and the waste belongs to the council, regardless of what they intend to do with it. There's precedent that even the carcass of a dead pig, abandoned on the farmer's land, remained the property of the farmer despite the fact that he had no intention of ever doing anything else with it.
The chap's case was doomed to fail from the outset, yet has probably cost the public tens of thousands of pounds in terms of wasted legal costs incurred by the local council. | |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:37 - Feb 10 with 3774 views | WeWereZombies |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:31 - Feb 10 by leitrimblue |
OK, so they would know the rough area? That would surely help even if it narrowed it down to 20-30 meter square. Would just be a matter of slowly going down through the layers and sieving with through what's there. Easy |
Hmmm, sounding a bit like one of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards urging on the fourteen year olds to match up the paper from the shredder in 'Argo' there... |  |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:51 - Feb 10 with 3691 views | leitrimblue |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:37 - Feb 10 by WeWereZombies |
Hmmm, sounding a bit like one of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards urging on the fourteen year olds to match up the paper from the shredder in 'Argo' there... |
I once seen a group of about 15 archaeologists lose a lump of hash on a site on a Friday afternoon. They all were in a line on their hands and knees trowling the ground like there was no tomorrow. I've never seen lads take their job so seriously. They gave up after a hour or so and any faith I had in archaeology went with it | | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:59 - Feb 10 with 3658 views | EdwardStone |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:36 - Feb 10 by Zx1988 |
It's not so much wanting to try and chase the money, it's the fact that the law is painfully clear on the ownership of items in a bin/skip once collected by a licensed waste carrier.
You put an item in the bin, the council collects it, and the waste belongs to the council, regardless of what they intend to do with it. There's precedent that even the carcass of a dead pig, abandoned on the farmer's land, remained the property of the farmer despite the fact that he had no intention of ever doing anything else with it.
The chap's case was doomed to fail from the outset, yet has probably cost the public tens of thousands of pounds in terms of wasted legal costs incurred by the local council. |
I imagine the Local Authority would ask the Judge for costs to be awarded in their favour. | | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:01 - Feb 10 with 3644 views | Zx1988 |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:59 - Feb 10 by EdwardStone |
I imagine the Local Authority would ask the Judge for costs to be awarded in their favour. |
That's the bit that I'm unclear on - the claim was dismissed pre-hearing, so I'm not sure it ever got to the point of the council being able to claim costs. | |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:01 - Feb 10 with 3647 views | wischip |
I bet the employees at the landfill site have already found it and are trying to figure out a way of laundering the value without anyone finding out. |  | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:04 - Feb 10 with 3621 views | EdwardStone |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:01 - Feb 10 by Zx1988 |
That's the bit that I'm unclear on - the claim was dismissed pre-hearing, so I'm not sure it ever got to the point of the council being able to claim costs. |
Ah, thanks for the clarification
I assumed it had gone in front of a Judge | | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:15 - Feb 10 with 3559 views | Bluecoin |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 13:31 - Feb 10 by BlueBadger |
Silly sod should have invested in something real. Like magic beans or unicorn ivory. Much better return to be had there. |
While you've been arguing with strangers on the Internet for x years, some of us have been investing in BTC.
Retired at 47. Who's the silly sod? |  | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:24 - Feb 10 with 3480 views | BlueBadger |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:15 - Feb 10 by Bluecoin |
While you've been arguing with strangers on the Internet for x years, some of us have been investing in BTC.
Retired at 47. Who's the silly sod? |
One of the habits of truly successful people is creating entirely new TWTD accounts to lie about being a millionaire when someone takes the piss out the crypto scam. | |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:29 - Feb 10 with 3432 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 14:36 - Feb 10 by Zx1988 |
It's not so much wanting to try and chase the money, it's the fact that the law is painfully clear on the ownership of items in a bin/skip once collected by a licensed waste carrier.
You put an item in the bin, the council collects it, and the waste belongs to the council, regardless of what they intend to do with it. There's precedent that even the carcass of a dead pig, abandoned on the farmer's land, remained the property of the farmer despite the fact that he had no intention of ever doing anything else with it.
The chap's case was doomed to fail from the outset, yet has probably cost the public tens of thousands of pounds in terms of wasted legal costs incurred by the local council. |
You’d think with Councils cash strapped they’d be asking for private assistance to find and sell that hard drive, that sort of cash could support the local area for generations. |  |
| An East Anglian Town overtaken by Londoners |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:29 - Feb 10 with 3430 views | Bluecoin |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:24 - Feb 10 by BlueBadger |
One of the habits of truly successful people is creating entirely new TWTD accounts to lie about being a millionaire when someone takes the piss out the crypto scam. |
It's literally the best returning investment in human history.
Care to enlighten us? | | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:30 - Feb 10 with 3417 views | J2BLUE |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:24 - Feb 10 by BlueBadger |
One of the habits of truly successful people is creating entirely new TWTD accounts to lie about being a millionaire when someone takes the piss out the crypto scam. |
I wish I could be scammed like that.
Some very big investment banks/funds have bought Bitcoin. Not saying that definitely means it's good but there must be some sort of appeal.
I own a little (a tiny fraction of one bitcoin) | |
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| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:31 - Feb 10 with 3417 views | yorkshireblue |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:15 - Feb 10 by Bluecoin |
While you've been arguing with strangers on the Internet for x years, some of us have been investing in BTC.
Retired at 47. Who's the silly sod? |
A former colleague I sat next to invested £68,000 in BTC years ago. His sister worked for the same company and confirmed it - it was inhertiance, he put it all in BTC and she put the deposit down on a house with her share. Apparently it caused lots of issues as his family were really annoyed he'd "wasted" the money...
I'm told it's worth well north of five million now and he doesn't work any longer and his family are more forgiving. |  | | |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:32 - Feb 10 with 3395 views | BlueBadger |
| Bitcoin in landfill on 15:29 - Feb 10 by Bluecoin |
It's literally the best returning investment in human history.
Care to enlighten us? |
You literally created an account to lie about this Elon. Don't you have better things to do? | |
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