Accidental throwing away hard disk British IT male lost value of 75 million British pound bitcoin
ã€World Wide Web Reporter】 According to the British "Daily Mail" report, a 32-year-old IT worker in Wales, UK, claimed that his accidentally lost hard drive had stored 7,500 Bitcoins and its current market value was as high as 75 million pounds. The IT worker named James Howells, from Newport, inadvertently threw out his hard drive in 2013, completely forgetting that the hard disk contained hundreds of thousands of pounds of digital cryptocurrencies.
Howells went on to say that after the value of the currency increased by more than 1000%, losing this hard disk also meant that he lost millions of pounds. Howells is currently actively seeking permission from the Newport City Department, agreeing to carry out search work in a landfill he believes may be buried in computers.
The 32-year-old programmer began digging Bitcoin on a computer in 2009, digging a total of 7,500 bitcoins, and storing it in a wallet folder on a computer's hard drive. He told the Daily Telegraph: "After I stopped mining, my computer was broken into pieces and I sold it on eBay. However, I kept my hard drive in my home drawer because There is Bitcoin's private key stored in case bitcoin appreciates on any given day. I can also find the bitcoins I dug.†“But when I cleaned up in mid-2013, my hands mistakenly Throw in the trash, which was worth hundreds of thousands of pounds at the time. The waste was sent to the local landfill for landfills,†Howells said.
He is currently seeking legal means and roughly estimating the potential cost of excavating a garbage dump in order to find the missing hard drive. Although the cost of excavating and destroying is like a drop in Wang Yang compared with the wealth obtained after finding the hard disk, the problem is that at present, it is not guaranteed that the hard disk can be found, and it is not easy to find someone to sponsor this action.
Unlike government-printed hard currency, Bitcoin is a "miner" who solves math problems through special software and pays off in the form of Bitcoin. Every Bitcoin has a public address and a private key, both of which are combinations of letters and numbers. Like fingerprints, they are unique identifiers. The private key is the password needed to make any transaction with Bitcoin. (Internship Compilation: Wan Wei reviewer: Li Zongze)
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