LOL...man throws out 7.5 mil of bitcoins
 

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/28...th-of-bitcoins

A British man is kicking himself for throwing out a hard drive in the summer, just now remembering he had the password to a digital wallet with about $7.5 million worth of bitcoins on it.

Bitcoin is a digital currency. It reached its highest value on Wednesday, topping $1,000.

"You know when you put something in the bin and in your head say to yourself, 'That's a bad idea'? I really did have that," James Howells told the Guardian newspaper.

Howells said he "mined" the coins in 2009 when the currency wasn't so well-known. He stored the private key to his wallet on the hard drive. Without it, he cannot access his 7,500 bitcoins.

He said he's been to the landfill where his hard drive is likely under three or four feet of garbage, but said it would cost too much to dig in the area where it might be, especially if he came up empty-handed.

how much does it cost to get 100 polish people to dig through trash for a week?

A lot fucking less than the value of 7,500 bit coins.

Ooooops!!!!!!!!!

it would cost about 7,500 bitcoins if one of the polish guys has big pockets!

You have to wonder what percentage of Bitcoins are out of circulation for good based on scenarios like this

If he had any sense he would have hired a load of people like Damian suggested and just told them he had thrown out the HD and it had his one copy of family photos on it.

Telling people it's got millions of £s on it doesn't inspire honesty :)

http://i.imgur.com/e9pgtVa.png

http://dailyreckoning.com/fiat-currency/

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1127362

Yay.

I'm sure he has plenty of company digging now that he has told the World.

Who said Polish?

if he wasn't a greedy snob, he'd cut the owner of the dump in to help him find the drive.

the owner's prolly got his own crew on it now in fact, hell i would.

How much does it cost to slap 1 magician face? :batman

What a dumbass. He is never going to find it.

Why in the world doesn't he just work with the management there and have a bunch of retards come out and look through everything and give the idiot who finds it a big reward?

Like this, management if you let me do this you can have xx% of the proceeds and then tell the idiots hey the moron who finds this shit gets xx% too then