• HerrBeter@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Technicians can work wonders as long as the seals to the spinny bits are intact. It would be cool to see even if it’s just bitcoin

      • Echo Dot
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        8 hours ago

        Technicians that will probably demand a commission not a flat rate. Might be wrong on that because I doubt he’ll find it.

        Landfills are huge and a metal detector would be completely useless in this scenario. He has absolutely no idea where on the landfill it would be how deep down it would be or even if it’s definitely in there. Don’t a lot of places like this pull out anything that might be useful and sell them?

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          57 minutes ago

          It depends on the sorting process. I don’t know much about his situation. If the hard drive got thrown into the trash, then it is most likely in a plastic bag somewhere buried. However, if it went through some kind of electronic recycling program then it was probably stripped for metals and parts.

          IMO, if the dude wants to walk around the dump for the rest of his life trying to find his $500 million treasure chest then let him. The only problem with that is, how many other people are going to want to find things in the dump? Are we just going to allow people to wander through the dump now?? Perhaps instead of suing, he should just find someone willing to front the money to buy the entire dump. Haha.

        • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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          8 hours ago

          not to mention but he might not even have ever had the bitcoin to begin with and is just doing a fishing expedition for dump hard drives in hopes one does have bitcoin on it