UK Man Offers Council $72M If He’s Allowed to Search Dump and Finds Discarded Bitcoin Trove
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UK Man Offers Council $72M If He’s Allowed to Search Dump and Finds Discarded Bitcoin Trove (CoinDesk archives) Jan 14, 2021 at 12:49 p.m. UTC UK Man Offers Council $72M If He’s Allowed to Search Dump and Finds Discarded Bitcoin Trove A UK IT engineer who mistakenly threw away a hard drive with around £210 million ($288 million) of bitcoin on it is applying to the local government to search wasteland for the device. James Howells threw away the hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins in 2013 and is offering the local government in Wales 25% of the bitcoin as part of a Covid Relief Fund if it is retrieved, reports the South Wales Argus. So far, the local council in Wales has rejected his requests for permission to search the landfill sites. […] As the price of bitcoin was at $38,417 at the time of publication, this now makes Howells’ inaccessible stash worth an estimated $288 million and the loss of his hard drive that much more painful.
