The Briton threw into the landfill 80 million dollars

It is difficult to name the comic situation that happened in June 2017 of the year in England. Briton James Howells claims that, due to his own negligence, he threw an old hard drive into a landfill, on which a file with bitcoins was stored. According to a resident of foggy Albion, in the 2013 year, when upgrading, he threw out the HDD, on which there was a file on 7500 bitcoins. Given the fact that the value of cryptocurrency has exceeded the mark of 10600 dollars, it is easy to calculate how a failed millionaire deprived himself of a comfortable existence.

Bitcoin-in-trash

The statement of the British media caused a resonance in society and, as it turned out, there are plenty of losers on the planet. So a resident of Australia at the beginning of 2017 got rid of the drive, which had information about 1400 bitcoins. There are many stories about the loss of cryptocurrency on the network, however, according to experts, they do not find official confirmation.

Bitcoin-in-trash

As for the resident of England, his seemingly solvable problem is unlikely to help the owner regain the lost bitcoins. Arriving at the landfill and talking to workers, James Howells found out that permission to the Wales authorities was required to search for the drive. However, it is forbidden to move around the landfill and you will need to hire workers for the search, the payment of which will be in the millions, based on the fact that the landfill is larger in size than a football field. It remains only to wish good luck to the optimistic British.

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