I have misplaced a John Lewis gift voucher & really want to buy a toaster. So now I know exactly how that bloke with all the bitcoin in a rubbish dump feels.
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Me too. When I was seven, I was sent to the shop with enough money to buy a stamp and chocolate bar. When I left the shop, I posted my Bounty bar instead of the stamp adorned letter.
Instead of mining bitcoin when you could do it with a screensaver (& it was worth $0.001) I used the SETI screensaver because I thought it was a bit more public spirited... Is there anyone I can sue?
I feel your pain. I remember a class asking me why I didn't use the 30 computers in my classroom to mine bitcoin evenings and weekends and I just laughed it off.
Yeah, someone told me at the time as well, meh...
Better a beer in the hand that a fictitious billionaire in the bush...
Being honest, if I had them I'd probably have sold at under $2 and considered myself a massive winner at the time...
I reformatted a hard drive that had my bitcoin on before realising they had any worth. I bought them donkeys years ago and never used them. I could do with them now that's for sure.
In years to come, people who had 50 melaniacoin on their laptop will be digging holes in landfill sites, and throwing the damn thing in before loved ones find out what they did with the college fund.
Lots of tense scenes negotiating with Newport City councillors, and then some longing, wistful staring through the chain metal fence of the rubbish dump.
But you have a hope of finding yours. And it can be used immediately.
If he finds his hard disc, he still need to find the only key in the world which will unlock it. There is no master TSA key which will unlock EVERY TSA compliant lock. Nor can this lock be cut off.
I hate being a moment of clarity, but... The chap's Bitcoin isn't in a dump. Bitcoin lives on its blockchain and cannot be removed - that's kinda the point. What he's done is lose his private keys - the secret password that grants him access to his Bitcoin. But yeah, you plonker, don't lose £££ :P
Similarly, the gift voucher is a promise that you can exchange it for something of actual value rather than being of value in itself. The potential debt to John Lewis still sits on their ledgers after the voucher was purchased.
Just get over it and get a toaster and not offer £99.99 to John Lewis to let you look for a toaster in the warehouse of over a million products without a label, In a hundred warehouses which you don’t know which has it!
You could sue John Lewis for you losing your voucher!
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Better a beer in the hand that a fictitious billionaire in the bush...
Being honest, if I had them I'd probably have sold at under $2 and considered myself a massive winner at the time...
Who puts a hard drive in a black bin and leaves it in the hallway?
See latest turn .. offering to buy the tip from the council with backing from an investor group
This one could run for another decade or more
Waste/landfill .. homes built on the site ..
Offer to buy the house
You could buy John Lewis.
If you lose them you are f****d, even if you can show proof of purchase.
Bitcoin! Dear God.
Keep up the good work and fight the fight with all they might.
I wonder who will play him?
Lots of tense scenes negotiating with Newport City councillors, and then some longing, wistful staring through the chain metal fence of the rubbish dump.
It's going to be ace.
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If he finds his hard disc, he still need to find the only key in the world which will unlock it. There is no master TSA key which will unlock EVERY TSA compliant lock. Nor can this lock be cut off.
You could sue John Lewis for you losing your voucher!