Re: Owner of 8K bitcoin lost in landfill threatens to bankrupt local council
I think him lashing out at the city council and threatening to sue them doesn't make bitcoin look good.
He's just out of his mind and it doesn't make Bitcoin look bad because it's not fault of Bitcoin that they were lost but it was the fault of that person who didn't took care of his Bitcoin. Bitcoin still looks good and it will remain looking good forever.wherever his hard drive is, if it's in that trash dump i don't see how even a data recovery expert could get anything off of it. it's probably been crushed, cracked, corroded, etc. lost cause. his big mistake was throwing it away in the first place but that was his fault no one elses. he lost those bitcoin a long time ago. and they're not coming back.
That person wasn't smart enough to save his private key/pass phrase and wallet details on paper or somewhere safe because hard drive is the worst medium to save your keys and if someone does that then that person isn't aware about hard drive failures. He lost the Bitcoin because of his own stupidity and now he's blaming city council for his loss. I feel bad for him but it was his own fault which made him lose all his Bitcoin holdings.