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Man who accidentally threw out a bitcoin fortune offers $90 million for permission to dig it up – 7NEWS.com.au
He wants to excavate a landfill site, offering up a staggering $90million to the council if he finds it.
A British man who accidentally threw a hard drive loaded with bitcoin into the trash has offered the local authority where he lives more than $90 million if it allows him to excavate a landfill site.
IT worker James Howells got rid of the drive, which held a digital store of 7,500 bitcoins, between June and August in 2013.
He had originally mined the virtual currency four years earlier when it was of little value.
But when the cryptocurrency shot up in value and he went in search of it, he discovered…
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