The guy is probably never going to let it go, he cannot accept that he made a huge mistake by throwing those coins away, however he seems to think he could have hundreds of millions on his bank account, but it does not seem as if he has ever stopped to think what he could have done if he had not mistakenly thrown away that hard drive, and it is incredibly unlikely he will still have that bitcoin, and it is likely he would have sold his coins for a low price, and instead he will just be mad that he sold his coins for a few hundred dollars a piece.

Again this guy? Again?! That hard disk is lost forever, it's now been 10 years, it could be under tons of trash of even completely destroyed. I don't understand how he can sue the city for not giving him the permit to do whatever he wants like he owns the place. It's just ridiculous what he is doing, just get over it, you will never get those bitcoins back, focus on your current life instead of being stuck in the past.

It's possible that someone pushed him not to give up on getting his hard drive containing Bitcoin at any cost, I'm not on the side of the city council but they can use all kinds of laws and regulations that apply in the city to fight the demands of the man who lost the hard drive. 10 years is quite a long time to be able to find the lost hard drive, especially if the city has an automated waste recycling facility then the chance of getting the hard drive back from the man is around 0.0009%

Am I the owner of all the rubbish I have thrown on the dump ? I am not. Neither is he. The the local council or whoever finds it, is the owner.

 

The case is really complicated. But the local council has nothing to do because it's not their duty to secure someone else's bitcoin or device. Even the person who files a case won't gain from such a case. And after 10 years, I don't feel it's possible to recover his bitcoin, even if he were able to find his hard drive. Even the person won't prove he really holds 8K bitcoins on his hard drive. And finally, it's hard to identify where it is currently.

On the time that Bitcoin was just into its early years then only a few did make out have that trust on investing into it without even having those kind of hopes or insights about becoming big in the near future and on the time comes that Bitcoin did hit up those bull run prices or new all time highs then for sure it did spark out and make those early adopters to find their Bitcoin stash on which this one included for course. No one had ever been that believing that Bitcoin would really come that far and it would really be just that normal that you would really be finding where those coins been hiding and been stored and we know that on that time which only a few do mind about their coins because it was cheap but on the time that it did make out some huge movement then this is where
stash-digging happens.

This would be a good read up in talks about lost wallets.
https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/lost-wallets/

You could really be able to say on how such a waste on losing those coins which value over billions of dollars but well there's nothing we can
do about it since it is really that lost and floating in the void forever.

I assume he has the private key. Otherwise he can’t be sure the funds weren’t already found and spent by someone else. Don’t kid yourself though, even with the public key there is no magic he can work and no additional hope that he would ever be able to get control of that lost Bitcoin ever again. He could look at it though.

think about it. he was so careless he didn't even backup that one hard drive. that means he didn't store anything. no private keys so probably nothing else either. who is dumb enough to store their public keys but not their private ones. no one. he probably never even used bitcoin for anything either. so unlikely he would have even concerned himself with his actual addresses. sounds like he just mined those bitcoin and forgot all about it. like it was some worthless thing.

What is there to understand on the part of the council? Well, a person shouldn’t dig through garbage. You never know what could happen to him. They are trying to protect him from the senseless search for an “artifact”. At landfills there is a chance of picking up some kind of bacilli, which will lead to an epidemic or something like that. Still, there are some concerns. It is quite reasonable to restrict people from visiting such sites even if they have all the permits.
It's time for this guy to accept this fate of such an unbearable loss and move on with his life. This is a much better option than trying to find a needle in a haystack.