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Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well this guy would have been a whale if he'd backed up his keys.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure he would still be a man, no matter how many keys he made.