Man Accidentally Sends £4m of Bitcoins to Landfill
A man from Newport, Wales, doesn't know whether to laugh or cry having recently realised he accidentally threw away £4m worth ($6.5m) of bitcoins. James Howells decided to give bitcoin mining a go back in 2009 and managed to mine around 7,500 bitcoins using his computer, the Guardian reports. At the time of writing, the price of 7,500 BTC, according to the CoinDesk BPI, is just under £4.2m. Hype around digital currency was pretty low back in 2009 and Howells decided to give up mining after his girlfriend complained about the noise and heat coming from his computer as a result of the mining....
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The British man who accidentally threw away a computer with 7,500 bitcoins on its hard drive has come up with a new plan to retrieve his lost coins from the city landfill. “We estimate there are between 300,000 – 400,000 tons of waste to look through,” he said. Man on Mission to Retrieve 7,500 Lost Bitcoins James Howells, an IT engineer who accidentally threw away the hard drive of an old computer containing 7,500 bitcoins back in 2013, has not given up his quest to retrieve his coins. The 35-year-old from the city of Newport in the U.K. has shared with The Sun....
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