This reminds me of the Rai stones that fell into the ocean

The fella that lost 8,000 BTC in a Welsh landfill is giving up the search and instead going to attempt to issue his own token based on his symbolic and legal claim to the lost BTC.

There’s an old story about Yapese islanders transporting Rai stones and losing some in a storm. They carried on using the sunken stones as currency for a very long time even though no one could see or touch them. They knew it was there.

Going to be interesting to see how this plays out. It’s nearly $1bn worth of BTC currently. It’s been publicised fairly widely that it’s now part of the BTC folklore. Enough people believe it’s there so I suspect he’ll extract some value from the idea.

If you don’t know about Rai stones it’s an interesting read - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones