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Man Sues Town for $647 Million Over Trashed Bitcoin Hard Drive
smooth wombat writes: In 2013, James Howell's partner inadvertently threw out a hard drive along with other trash. Unknown to this person, this hard drive contained approximately 8,000 bitcoins. For the past decade Howell has been petitioning the town council of Newport to excavate the landfill in t...
smooth wombat writes: In 2013, James Howell's partner inadvertently threw out a hard drive along with other trash. For the past decade Howell has been petitioning the town council of Newport to excavate the landfill in the hope of recovering the drive which would now hold approximately $647 million worth of cryptocurrency. But, citing environmental concerns, the council has rejected his proposal to dig through over a decade's worth of garbage.
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