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Stories of buried treasure seldom involve electronic data, currency fluctuations and bureaucratic red tape. Still less frequently is a forgetful computer engineer cast as the hero. And while the pot
A Newport, Wales resident has promised to pay 52.5 million pounds (over $74 million) to local authorities if they help him find a hard drive he had thrown ...
The £210 million hard drive was unintentionally dumped when clearing out a desk
A Welshman has offered local officials a potential £50m (€56m) coronavirus relief fund if they let him search a landfill for a hard drive containing bitcoin worth £210m which he dumped in 2013.
By Chris and Rosie Back in 2013, James Howells threw away an old laptop hard drive. The only problem is he now realizes that the hard drive had 7,500 bitcoins on it. At today's rates, that would be worth about $300 million. He bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop. He's now begging city officials in Newport, South Wales, to excavate the landfill where it should be so he can look for it. If recovered, he's willing to donate 25% of the money to Newport for a "Covid Relief" fund. But the Newport coun...