Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill - eviltoast
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...
  • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Bitcoin is saved with a password that’s held in RAM, so typing a different password will open a different wallet. This is in addition to the secret key saved on the hard drive. There’s no telling how much money a hard drive has, even to the person recovering it.