0:00 [Music] we may or may not have mentioned this years ago uh in the in that phase of JK news where like Steve couldn't not talk about crypto in every video uh but there's this dude who basically had a hard drive that uh had a bunch of Bitcoin specifically on it and his roommate uh accidentally threw that hard drive away now the thing is for for a long time damn it wasn't like a huge deal until bitcoin's value soar through the roof and I'm talking this guy had I think something like 6,000 Bitcoin oh it was crazy but I I I heard that they were like going through the landfill trying to find it no no no so he was petitioning to try and go through the landfill but the city kept denying him
0:50 to like who who's going to let somebody just roam through like that's a liability beyond measure like you don't know what the hell's going on out there but it might be too late well the thing is apparent ly this is allegedly that they were able to track down which quadrant of the landf that's got to hurt that's got to hurt if they have like some kind of lead I don't know I don't know how I don't know if it's that organized the way that landfills are like section off by like date and or time at which like a truck might fill because also what are the chances of finding or what if you get there and they're like yeah it's in quadrant 2 the one with all the Western Digital hard drives and if they're exactly the same there like a million digital yeah for 6,000 Bitcoins you would sit there yeah but how do you know which one's yours you got to like you got to do data rescue for all of them that's true you know what you know how much
1:40 data rescue costs a lot I just did it recently on Old hard drive that ████ cost me 2,300 bucks what data rescue yeah I had I had a broken hard drive from early 2000s that I wanted to fix that was the cheapest option and you did it I got it done in Pasadena yeah Dam you are worth $19 million M was I was like I I weighed it back and forth in my mind for years I've had this hard drive forever and I'm like it's not worth it it's not worth it and then I started to think about it I'm like damn there's a lot of stuff on there that's priceless there's a memories yeah memories all the old dick pics you sent all my old dickpics from when it was really small and then there's a lot of like old music that I made that I I don't have anymore a lot of songs that I made like things that I just made creatively and I was like ████ it let's do it and I went over there and I was like maybe it's going to be 500 bucks and the guy was like okay well here's option one the lowest one 2300 BS and they can't even guarantee they can't yeah so what they do they
2:30 they'll send you a list of the files that they can see that are uh fixable before they actually fix it they're like look at the list and if this is the files that you want I mean we can't open them but you know you know the file names at least and I'm like oh I see it these are all my old songs from here here here these are old photos and then I was like yeah let's just do it and then they got 99.5% wow except for that one dickpic you sent cuz the pixels so small he's like I can't even get it out of there it's not even worth it it was such a [Music] $2300 yeah3 it's expensive so it's it's also based on speed let's say you're working on like a film and that happens on set with a hard drive and you need it the next day it's like double the amount wow it's a good business it's a good business but then also those hard drives
3:21 are kind of obsolete already so there's less business every year right true cuz it's all flash now yeah yeah this guy this guy's hard drive uh was thrown out 10 years ago and apparently he had 8,000 Bitcoin on the hard drive oh my God what is that right now oh dude you think he's friends with his roommate still no way no way well it didn't matter at that time it was yeah half a billion dude there people people hold res so that amount actually it's like 495 m 314,000 is the lawsuit that he's going to file towards the city for not letting him go into the landfill and uh he's being backed by a team of wealthy investors for their piece of the p on that's an angle that's an angle wait a minute wait a minute wow 10 years ago he's been
4:11 trying to look for it for a long time I think as every year goes by he wants to look for it even harder yeah what sounds like yeah but also how can you sue them for something that you can't fully prove is there that's true cuz 10 years ago they probably shipped that ████ out to the waters it's a fidget Spinner by now yeah this one it's plastic yeah put that in the USB see if it detects it's probably all rusted and 1,000 Bitcoin there's no way it's still even yeah I have a hard drive that I ask someone to do that just never follow through I don't even know where he's at now a person like just a random guy just a guy he does that on the side on the side don't you need like a dedicated lab with like radiation tools I don't know he knows how to do it maybe they just lied about how they do it like we just plugged it in I found it so this I got
5:05 the quote and I didn't pursue it cuz it was too expensive how much was the quote back then 600 bucks mine was 1200 6 7 years ago oh 12007 years ago yeah yeah that's that's just's really expensive tring 600 bucks like 2010 you know they had to do that in China with when they were doing uh Street dance of China I did hear about something like that yeah the hard drive they they shot like a whole episode and they put on a hardrive drive and it got corrupted they had to do they had to do data rescue that night that's what happened to me it got corrupted on a job and we needed everything that was on that hard drive the next day at like 7:00 a.m. and it was like already 6:00 p.m. and all these places are closed too how does it get corrupted what what what happened we knew somebody who knew somebody and it was like a it just
5:57 sometimes that ████ just be happening to drives yeah that's why there's a lot of companies that like they know it's an active problem and they're trying to like make drives better than that specific one how does it get corrupt which Drive is right that's what I'm saying they just be taking too many bribes and ████ no they be they just be pulling it off the computer huh y'all be just there's really sometimes it's nobody's fault it's just the drive failed like it sucks don't use external drives like the guys that make prism line effects or prism lens effects you know that company they made their own hard drive specifically for film making that guarantees that won't happen laser laser disc never go corrupt burn your CD just record over the old karaoke videos you only got 4 megabytes on there or video tape that doesn't get corrupt yeah it does it does pull the tape out it's like that doesn't get corrupt but it comes out in 360p what if this was your
6:48 hard drive what length would you go to try to get it back y my hard drives what if this was you you Anthony Lee there's articles about you trying to get your hard drive that has 8,000 Bitcoins it has that much in it yeah I I would go Through the Wire to like also do what he's doing like even if there's no chance this is what he's saying this he says it is what it is I could spend the rest of my life working 9 to5 and thinking about it every day I might as well spend my time trying to recover this simple piece of metal a really good point if it's half a billion we're not talking about like even 5 million 5 million and I'd still be like I have 5 million somewhere yeah yeah you're sneaking in at night he waits too long to do things legitimately if you have that much ████ money but it wasn't that much money 10 years ago right so there was an incentive then 3 four years into it when you feel like oh my God I got to do it
7:38 now right you do your research you find where the parcel is you pay the people at the ████ trash yard cuz they're all Mafia guys anyway you telling me these Trash Guys junk guys aren't Mafia related they're going to you're going to be like dude here I'm going to pay you and I'm going to dig around this area what if what if part of the I guess the scheme is that you want very few people to know exactly what quadrant it's at that's true cuz what if the mafia guys go get it first and also it's easier to say that in retrospect they're just going to be like look at this trash Digger over here but if they watch you looking for it and you go I found it what's stopping them from whacking you in that moment chop your body up and get it burnt yeah you just got to be like dude the last memory of my grandma's on this CD the grandma and you know mafew guys they love grandmas cuz they're just like oh yeah my my nana my nana always made me spaghetti yeah
8:30 limits yeah speaking of Mafia you see that video of the dude bringing around in uh Italy a pizza with pineapple on it and everyone tripping out oh that sounds crazy he a mafia guy no it's just one dude hey I brought your pizza with pineapple on it are you ████ stupid why would you bring me this when people break the pasta when and then the guy oh what are you doing you think I'm stupid by I like PPP speaking of uh speaking of Bitcoin that inflates did you ever see the story about the that one hacker guy that stole like a ton of Bitcoin and then when the government seized it years later They seized the inflated amount which sounds kind of ████ up that is kind of ████ up yeah so like even though when he stole it it was worth a few thousand by the time they caught him it was several million and they took several Million
9:20 worth wait isn't so are you saying that he stole a few thousand and he sold it no he had it on him for years well then that means it's he he not losing anything different from what he was holding it's just the value was already inflated so they're just taking the same amount it's just a more inflated value but then doesn't that doesn't that seem kind of sneaky for the government I it seems practical for the government cuz the government's not going to like for example the IRS why would they audit somebody who makes $50,000 a year even if they're like ████ around versus auditing somebody who makes 50 million a year more M yeah so it sounds regular government that's true yeah that's regular government I mean they'll still attack you for $50,000 they'll tax you but if you're ████ around they're not going to like put they will energy and resources when they can get somebody with like no they're stingy bro IRS dog California they'll get you hey dude
10:11 honestly they went after our employee our employer Joe and it's like we had to ████ bro they're still charging me uh fees for business on an LC I closed three years ago that's what I'm saying but you don't pay right no yeah yeah but then they still even though I call them like hey that's a closed LC okay they send me the same charge next year that's so annoying acting like I'm not saying it but hoping you just pay it eventually yeah they're just they're doing like let me just inconvenience you so you're just paying the stuff like does it go up because yeah it's going up like I didn't do nothing about it yeah everys man Cali dude it's not even IRS dude it's California like how do you how do you fix that if it's unfixable on the other end you can't you just California is trying to get every penny they can get record the conversation and just to spend it on the damn bums so what are you going to do just never pay it that's that I just have to year I just have to call and be like oh that's not an active
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