This guy's hard drive with $500 million in bitcoin is lost at a dump, and local officials won't let him retrieve it

In 2013 James Howells of Newport, Wales mistakenly tossed his hard drive into the trash, and the next day his wife took it to the local landfill. Sometime later, he realized what happened and has been pleading with local officials ever since to allow him to look for it. — Read the rest

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