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Quest to find US$181 million in bitcoin buried under 110,000 tons of rubbish | South China Morning Post

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A man who accidentally threw away 8,000 bitcoin, now worth US$181 million, has hatched a US$11 million master plan to get them back. James Howells’ life changed when he threw out a hard drive about the size of an iPhone 6. Howells, from the city of Newport in southern Wales, Britain, had two identical laptop hard drives squirrelled away in a drawer in 2013. One was blank; he says the other contained 8,000 bitcoin – now worth about US$181 million, even after the recent cryptocurrency crash . He’d meant to throw out the blank one, but instead the drive containing…

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