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AmbiguousProps to [email protected]English • 7 months ago

Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill

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Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill

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AmbiguousProps to [email protected]English • 7 months ago
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Howells eventually realized what he'd done, but it was too late. His bag of trash from that day is believed to be at the local landfill, and...
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    3•7 months ago

    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.

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      2•7 months ago

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

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        1•7 months ago

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

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          1•7 months ago

          https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-whale.asp

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            1•7 months ago

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale

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              1•7 months ago

              This article is about a marine mammal. For other uses, see Whale (disambiguation).

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                1•7 months ago

                https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/whoosh

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                  1•7 months ago

                  Omg good one

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