Man throws away hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins worth $500 million.

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In 2013, Howells accidentally threw out the hard drive his bitcoin stash that he had mined in 2009, worth around $1 million at the time but which now would be worth over $520 million

  • A British man has filed a legal claim against a local council in an attempt to retrieve a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC he accidentally threw out in 2013.
  • Howells assembled a team to carry out a $13 million excavation of the landfill, which would take between 18 and 36 months to carry out with a further year of remediation work.
  • The council has rejected the request out of environmental concerns.

A British man has filed a legal claim against a local council in Wales in an attempt to retrieve a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC that he accidentally threw out in 2013, according to news website WalesOnline.

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