UK Man Offers Council $72M If He’s Allowed to Search Dump and Finds Discarded...

An IT engineer accidentally discarded his Bitcoin fortune over seven years ago while cleaning his house. James Howells, the owner of a discarded hard drive with 7,500 Bitcoin (BTC), has made a fresh plea to excavate a landfill site and possibly recover the device.Back in 2013, Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC while cleaning his house. The Bitcoin stash came from Howell’s mining activity back when it was still possible to use CPUs to mine Bitcoin/By November 2013, the Bitcoin  in the hard drive was already worth $6.5 million and Howell has been trying to....

Bitcoiner James Howells planned to speak with the Newport City Council in the coming weeks on a proposal to find his hard drive discarded in a landfill nine years ago. James Howells, a British man who mistakenly discarded a hard drive containing roughly 7,500 Bitcoin in 2013 has reportedly started looking at having robots and humans work together to retrieve his crypto from a local landfill.According to a Sunday report from Business Insider, Howells has pitched an $11-million idea to locate and recover the lost hard drive, which may be surrounded by up to roughly 110,000 tons of garbage.....

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have published a new paper examining the characteristics of US bitcoin users based on an analysis of Google search data. The paper, titled "Characteristics of Bitcoin Users: An Analysis of Google Search Data", resulted in some rather controversial conclusions about the types of people that appear to be using the digital currency. However, even the researchers admit little is known about the average bitcoin user due to the lack of systematic data collection and blockchain pseudo-anonymity. Dr Aaron Yelowitz and Matthew Wilson, who carried out the....

In an effort to attract more customers, Bing Rewards is offering a $500 prize in bitcoin through its sweepstakes. The company is working with Tango Card to allow search engine users to redeem reward points in exchange for bitcoin. Microsoft recently announced that users can be able to join through the Bing Rewards homepage starting July 31, 2015 until August 31, 2015. Bing will then notify the winners upon the end of the contest then post the results online by September 30. Bing Bitcoin Rewards. Bing Rewards is a kind of rewards credit system to search engine users that can be redeemed for....

Launched in September 2015, SearchTrade has already sold 1321 keywords as part of its search mining concept. SearchTrade works like any other search engine, but takes its revenue from the advertisers, and uses Bitcoin to distribute it back to users. In this way, people become active participants with technological resources being distributed evenly. Search engine monopoly. Unlike the monopolies created by some large companies, this new search engine offers its users the opportunity to share their Bitcoin revenue accruing from advertisers. The company hopes its revenue sharing model will be....