$615 million buried in trash
In 2013, James Howells, an IT employee living in the UK, sold his laptop on eBay but kept the hard drive where he mined Bitcoin.
But while he was cleaning his house, he mistakenly threw the hard drive into a landfill in Newport, South Wales. The hard drive contained approximately 7,500 Bitcoins, the price of which in 2018 had soared to approximately $615 million.
Now, more than four years later, he wants to retrieve the hard drive from the garbage dump, but there are already 350,000 tons of garbage in it. The city council rejected his request to rummage through the rubbish pile, saying it was illegal and dangerous.
What an unlucky Mr. Howarth!
