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Man spends 10 years persuading Newport council to let him dig through landfill site for £130m of buried bitcoins. (www.mirror.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure he realizes that. Why wouldn't he?

He simply values the chance to find that money more than the disgust of going through trash

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This has been going on for years. Every time his story is in the media, he brushes the health aspect aside. The council has brought it up repeatedly, but he either doesn't understand, or doesn't care.