James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, accidentally discarded a hard drive worth $669 million in bitcoins. Although he is trying to enter the landfill through legal means or buy the site outright. However, a British scrap yard management expert has questioned the possible recovery, claiming to find the lost hard drive and recover $669 million worth of bitcoins.
来自纽波特的 IT 工程师 James Howells 因意外丢弃了价值 6.69 亿美元比特币的硬盘。尽管他正在尝试通过法律手段进入垃圾填埋场或直接购买该场地。然而,一位英国废品站管理专家对可能的找回提出了质疑,声称找到丢失硬盘并恢复价值 6.69 亿美元比特...
据Straitstimes报道,英国男子James Howells考虑买下其丢失比特币硬盘的垃圾填埋场,继续寻找损失的10亿美元比特币。 James Howells的前伴侣曾于2013年误将装有8000枚比特币的硬盘当作垃圾处理。他曾试图起诉市议会,要求进入垃圾填埋场寻找或获得4.95亿英镑的赔偿,市议会最近宣布关闭垃圾填埋场并将部分土地改造成太阳能发电厂。
James Howells, an IT engineer in Newport, Wales, discarded a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins in 13 years. Howells repeatedly applied to dig into the landfill to find the hard drive, but the Newport City Council rejected his request repeatedly, citing environmental concerns. Howells claims that the city council "basically ignored" his repeated requests to dig up the burial site of the hard drive. He has now filed a lawsuit with the Newport City Council.
James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport who accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins, is suing Newport City Council for 495 million pounds (about $647 million) in damages. Howells made several attempts to retrieve the hard drive from the local landfill, but was thwarted by the city council, which repeatedly denied his request to excavate the site. In 2013, he mistakenly threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin during a home cleanup, which is now worth nearly 500 million...