James Howells, an IT worker living in the United Kingdom, knows exactly where his misplaced 7,500 bitcoins are but the city council where he lives won't let him retrieve them. They say it's against the law.
According to a report published in The Telegraph, Howells began mining bitcoin on his personal laptop in 2009. In 2013, though, "after I had stopped mining, the laptop I had used was broken into parts and sold on eBay," Howells tells The Telegraph.
He kept the drive he used to collect the bitcoins, "so if bitcoin did become valuable one day, I would still have the coins I mined."
But, while cleaning his home in 2013, he mistakenly put it into a waste bin at his local landfill site in Newport, South Wales, where it got buried.


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Village people at work.

are u sure officials didnt allow him or hes trying to be greedy u know americans like to claim rights

this article makes no sense, do u know how many tonnes of waste hv gone thru the site since 2013, abeg park well

The story is true I once read about him on cnn

Hmmm

Yeah, true tho but sad. The money is gone for good. Hard luck. He prob will never find the computer.

well na White man be that. i trust my fellow Nigerians.... i swear he no throw away the damage laptop talkless of the hard drive.. i love Nigerians we are very smart in this kind issue..

I don't understand something thought bit coins is virtual money, how did it get into hard drive again.

Or another MMM is booting

Nonsense. You mined bitcoin and could not transfer it to a blockchain account?