TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoMan who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the sitewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1298arrow-down18cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1290arrow-down1external-linkMan who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the sitewww.tomshardware.comTheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square65fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareScreamium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·15 hours agoIt gets compacted in the garbage truck and compacted some more at the landfill. I think the odds are slim it could be found in one piece
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·14 hours agogarbage truck compacting isn’t really that much, check out what it looks like when they dump it. lots of stuff doesn’t get exposed. The drive would have been fed to the incinerator where I live. We don’t use a dump, we have a huge waste to power transfer station.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·13 hours agoCompacting at a landfill however …. Dumped out of the truck into probably another sorting area where machinery pushes through it potentially prying out large salvage pieces for scrap, or destructively breaking it apart by driving through and over it. Over, and over, and over, and over.
It gets compacted in the garbage truck and compacted some more at the landfill. I think the odds are slim it could be found in one piece
garbage truck compacting isn’t really that much, check out what it looks like when they dump it. lots of stuff doesn’t get exposed.
The drive would have been fed to the incinerator where I live. We don’t use a dump, we have a huge waste to power transfer station.
Compacting at a landfill however ….
Dumped out of the truck into probably another sorting area where machinery pushes through it potentially prying out large salvage pieces for scrap, or destructively breaking it apart by driving through and over it.
Over, and over, and over, and over.