> If recovered Mr Howells said he would give 10% of the proceeds to turn the city into a crypto-currency hub.

What a beautiful analogy for the stinginess of cryptocurrency.

"If you help make me rich, I promise to donate a fraction of the money I earn from your work!"

Would a 10-year old mechanical hard drive sitting in a landfill with heat/cool cycles and who knows what kinds of biological breakdown/runoff be in the needed condition to perform a recovery?

It’ll be worthless by the time he finds it. Surrounded by mountains of trash weeping over magic beans and all that could’ve been. It’s a sad existence fate burdens on superlosers.