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FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At least you are not the guy who threw away hit bitcoin wallet, are you?

  James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer, mistakenly threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin (worth over £500 million/$900M+ as of 2025) in 2013

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  • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dude’s gone full tilt psychotic as a result and is selling shares to excavate the landfill it’s in (he’ll never find it intact and usable, but his life is forever ruined by his refusal to give up)

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep, kinda sad, his life being consumed by that one mistake and not getting therapy and moving on.

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      • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Seriously, when he probably could have used that energy to grift like all the other shitcoin rug pulls.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So true. It’s so insidious because there’s that vague hope that there’s a tiny chance he finds it and never goes back to work, or whatever.

      It’s right there, balanced just at the end of his fingertips over the gaping maw of madness, like Indie in the Last Crusade reaching for the Holy Grail.

      He needs that kindly father figure to tell him

      “Lett et gohh, Shon…”

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