A British man who accidentally threw a hard drive loaded with bitcoin into the trash has offered the local authority where he lives more than $70 million if it allows him to excavate a landfill site.
IT worker James Howells got rid of the drive, which held a digital store of 7,500 bitcoins, between June and August in 2013. He had originally mined the virtual currency four years earlier when it was of little value. But when the cryptocurrency shot up in value and he went in search of it, he discovered that he had mistakenly thrown the hard drive out with the trash.
Back in 2013 his bitcoins were at an estimated value of $9 million. How tf you gonna throw away $9 million? 🤦🏾♂️.
what if the drive wasn't at the dump and never had been
I used my PC to mine BCs in 2009. Left the machine running a few weeks, got bored of it & closed whatever the programme was doing the data mining. I still have the hard drive. I assume I have Bitcoins on it but I can't remember my wallet password or even how to retrieve them! 🙄
Enough with this story geez
Let me know if you need any help finding it. 🤑
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Man offers city $70 million to dig up lost 7,500 bitcoin hard drive - Business InsiderA man who says he threw away a hard drive loaded with 7,500 bitcoin in 2013 is offering his council $70 million to dig it up from the city dump 🤣 Oh snap... I feel so safe with CelsiusNetwork managing my funds rather than doing it myself.. Don't want to be this guy, that's for sure. Good luck Bitcoin treasure hunters! Many of these ads post appearing of late, so it wouldn't be crazy to think it's just fear mongering.
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