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How much egg is gonna be on his face when he finds it one day behind a cabinet drawer?
Sometimes you can find scimitars in there. You can chop a camel right in its hump and drink all of its milk right off the tip of those things.
You throwing babies away?
I've heard about this dude since like...2018. At some point you have to move on. Shit like that will consume you, and it's just not worth losing years of your life over it. Talk about a needle in a haystack.
It's 500M though...
Well, it was. 11 years of landfill leachate have probably taken their toll, not to mention that it was probably crushed immediately under literal tons of soggy rainwater trash.
Life with friends and family is much more valuable than some extra 000s. Money can't bring them back once they are gone. Nor can it be taken to the next life.
Okay, I see that. But it's 500m tough...
Okay, there's no chance he's getting it back though...
Okay, but it's 500m though...
This article looks like someone "wrote" it using speech-to-text and didn't double-check their work.
tossing a hard driving
the whole thing could be for not (instead of "the whole thing could be for naught.")
and of course,
In a statement to Whales Online
Of course, if it turns out that whales have banded together to make their own website, I'll stand corrected.
Well this guy would have been a whale if he'd backed up his keys.
Pretty sure he would still be a man, no matter how many keys he made.
This article is about a marine mammal. For other uses, see Whale (disambiguation).
It would be so fucking funny if these bitcoins never existed and this is all one big ruse to trick crypto investors into excavating a landfill.
All this time he could've thought up another magnificent way to make money but he chose to stay in the past, longing for something probably already completely degraded, destroyed or recycled, even if it's 500M...
How would you make 500m if you'd already beaten the house once?
🎵Money for nothing and checks for free🎶
bitcoin is just gambling and yall dropped your lotto ticket.
Chicks, not checks, btw.
Two checks at the same time, man.
Yortuk and Georg? You cruise correctly.
For $5M you can have all the chicks that you want... I joke that my wife keeps me in check and I keep her in cash.
My favourite part from this story covered on another site was
Howells says that if only the council had entertained his excavation requests, "Newport would look like Dubai." Currently, it still looks like Newport.
Does he really think $500M would significantly change a city? As if the city would get any part of it, or that Dubai is something to desire...
Or that dubai was built with such a paltry sum
For all the talks about freedom and "decentralised" utopia the crypto bro cults spew all the time, they are really just obsessed with making absurd amounts of money fast. Their only motivation is greed.
Can't say I'm surprised some regard Dubai as a goal. They only see the rich man's club, they don't care about how the sausage is made.
Yeah wtf. Seeing Dubai as the ultimate utopia is so weird.
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I remember hearing about this guy years ago. He probably is now devoting 10 (?) years of his life (I did not look it up) searching for his lost bitcoin, but I have got the feeling, that he will never find them.
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