It’s hard to call the situation that occurred in June 2017 in England a comedy. British man James Howell claims that due to his own negligence, he threw away an old hard drive containing a file with bitcoins. According to the resident of the foggy Albion, in 2013, during an upgrade, he discarded an HDD that held a file with 7,500 bitcoins. Considering that the value of the cryptocurrency has surpassed $10,600, it’s easy to calculate how the failed millionaire deprived himself of a comfortable existence.
The statement by the British media caused a resonance in society, and as it turned out, there are plenty of unlucky people on the planet. For example, an Australian resident in early 2017 got rid of a storage device that contained information about 1,400 bitcoins. There are many stories about losing cryptocurrency online, but according to experts, they have not found official confirmation.
As for the English resident, his seemingly solvable problem is unlikely to help the owner recover the lost bitcoins. Upon arriving at the landfill and talking with the workers, James Howell found out that obtaining permission from the Welsh authorities is required to search for the storage device. However, moving around the landfill is prohibited, and hiring workers for the search would cost millions, considering that the landfill is larger than a football field. All that remains is to wish good luck to the optimistically inclined Brit.
