Im Jahr 2013 erlangte die Geschichte der „Bitcoin-Festplatte im Müll“ traurige Berühmtheit. Damals hatte der Brite James Howells versehentlich eine Festplatte weggeworfen, auf der er zuvor 7’500 Bitcoins gespeichert hatte. Zum Zeitpunkt des Schreibens dieses Artikels hat jeder Bitcoin einen Wert von circa 24’000 US-Dollar, wenn man sich so die Preise der grossen Bitcoin-Börsen anschaut. Das bedeutet, dass die verlorene Festplatte mittlerweile einen...
Read More »James Howells is a man who will do just about anything to get his lost bitcoins back. James Howells Is Really Eager to Find His Lost Funds About nine years ago, Howells accidentally discarded a zip drive that contained as many as 8,000 individual bitcoin units. These units are lost somewhere in a city dump – a dump that local officials refuse to let him dig through. These bitcoin units would be worth more than $180 million at the time of writing, and Howells says he has...
Read More »Imagine having a lot of money stored up in a safe somewhere. Before you even realize it, you’ve somehow lost the safe’s key only to find that it went out with the rest of your everyday trash. It wasn’t something that you meant to do… It just kind of, well… happened. For 35-year-old James Howells, this is the reality he’s currently facing after realizing that he threw out some hard drives containing quite a bit of bitcoin with the rest of some unwanted materials.James Howells Really Wants His...
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