Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Man Wants to Buy the Dump Where His Bitcoin Hard Drive Got Tossed" video.

From what I understand, that would already be known from the blockchain.
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@Bigrignohio They can probably figure out which portion of the dump was in use at the time that the drive was thrown out. I doubt that part would be that complicated to work out as they don't generally just dump materials randomly. They'll systematically go through from the back of the property to wherever the entrance is typically.
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They can work out the approximate location based on when it was put into the trash can. So locating where to look is probably one of the lesser issues. The bigger ones include the fact that the drive was likely run through a garbage compactor in the truck multiple times and has been sitting in the landfill for quite a few years where any opening in the drive could lead to stuff getting in to damage what is left.
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@NormalityIsWeird Not really, you can identify the transactions to a wallet, but not necessarily a wallet to a person. If they couldn't do that, then it would have no value of any sort.
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@Wild_Bill57 There's limits to it. Between being crushed in the compactor and the impact of exposure to the elements, the likelihood of it being recovered are pretty low. On top of that, we're talking about an encrypted file which means that they need more or less 100% of the portion to be readable or they have nothing.
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@Ericbjohnston5150 I'm wondering where the money is coming from just considering how expensive the purchase is and that there are extremely low chances of it being recovered in a state that would allow for the data to be recovered. Just finding the drive is likely a problem, and there may well be other drives in the landfill that don't have the data he's looking for.
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@jdeltaalpha5195 Yep, which is a large part of why I wonder if anybody would be willing to front the money for this. It's not like those ET carts that were buried in New Mexico that could be sold to collectors when found, even if the carts didn't still work. In this case, the drive has to be found, it has to be functioning, or able to be disassembled and read and enough of the encrypted bits need to still be readable to actually trade. If any of those steps fail, then the money is gone. The only people I can think of that might go along with that would be organized crime looking to launder a bunch of money.
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@kenyattaclay7666 They'll look for bodies in dumps and sometimes other evidence, but that's the government doing it and they only do it if they have reason to think that it has to be done.
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The employees probably know that the device was crushed during the process as the garbage trucks have their own compactors to get as much into the truck as possible. I doubt any of them even bothered to look, given that it doesn't sound like he notified them immediately of the loss of the drive.
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