What if we bought a bunch of hard drives and used data recovery to look for bitcoins? Back in 2009 entire bitcoins were thrown around like pennies, faucets used to give you 1-5 bitcoins. Even 1 HDD find can set you up for life.
What if we bought a bunch of hard drives and used data recovery to look for bitcoins...
Easton Rodriguez
Ayden Davis
would be a moon in a billion find though
Lincoln Fisher
*one in a billion
fucking autocorrecting brain
Lucas Bennett
I'm thinking most lost HDDs are going to be between 2012-2014 when it was raising steadily and when the crash happened.
It would be great to know which states, towns, countries primarily knew about cryptocurrency in 2012-2014. You could go to your local electronics landfill instead of buying them from Ebay, Aliexpress, Amazon.
Moon in a billion sounds more creative.
William Morris
I'm thinking this would be a more realistic lottery. Also far more realistic than mining and trading.
Matthew Barnes
What about the private keys?
Josiah King
Most local wallets have a PDF with the private keys inside it.
Camden Walker
my (deceased) uncle may have been into BTC...I have his old laptop but it won't turn on even when connected to AC power. Wat do?
Austin Moore
remove the hdd and run it on some other computer
Brayden Lopez
I would start by looking at address with large holdings of BTC/ETH that haven't been active for years. Search a search with the public address to try find information on the owner. Could be a someone that died and the parents have still got the PC in the attic or something. Could maybe also use wayback machine to look for old posts on fourms
Austin Jackson
bump
Caleb Long
There was a story about a guy who threw away his HDD with thousands of Bitcoins on it.
He kept searching a landfill, but to no avail.
Colton Jenkins
I personally work with a guy who mined back in the beginning and ending up bricking the drive and tossing it. I laugh at him constantly
Leo Gray
How many BTC did he mine back then?
I heard about it in 2011 but my GPU wasn't strong enough to mine a significant amount.
Jason Hernandez
He thinks at least hundreds, maybe thousands. All he knows is he coulda made it kek
Jacob Campbell
More like a freudian slip
Henry Long
How much would have an Ati Radeon HD 5000 series mined back then?
Andrew Sanchez
that shit is lost long ago, dumped on some shithole in asia and scrapped by chinks forget about it
Robert Thomas
It's always the Australians who are pessimistic.
Tyler Lewis
If you can't figure out how to remove a hard drive from a laptop, then you don't deserve to get rich.