A Welsh man has realized that he threw out a stash of Bitcoins along with an old computer hard drive. Here, a photo of tokens representing Bitcoins. I really did have that," James Howells says. And boy, was his intuition right: Howells tossed a hard drive that held millions of dollars' worth of Bitcoins, the currency whose value has skyrocketed this year.
Gox exchange, as CNET reported. Because there's no central exchange for Bitcoins, prices can vary. The Bitcoins were in a digital wallet in a hard bitcoin is worth over $1000 for the first time since 2013 that was sitting in a desk drawer in Newport, Wales. It contained the unique access key that would allow Howells to control the money. Howells, who reportedly works in IT, did not make a backup file. As Howells tells The Guardianit was months before he realized he had tossed the Bitcoins along with the drive, the survivor of a Dell laptop he had used to "mine" the currency in His attempts to find the missing hard drive have been stymied by the epic size of the local landfill.
Its operators told Howells that his hard drive was probably about four or five feet deep, in an area the size of a soccer field. And with no guarantee of finding the Bitcoins, he can't take on the expense of an excavation. I think I'm just resigned to never being able to find it. At least Howells has company.
As we reported this past springa man named Stefan Thomas told Der Spiegel that he lost 7, Bitcoins because of a hard-drive failure. Accessibility links Skip to main content Keyboard shortcuts for audio player.
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