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Officials won't let a man look for $135 million in bitcoin he threw away

 

James Howells, an IT worker living in the United Kingdom, knows exactly where his misplaced 7,500 bitcoins are but the city council where he lives won't let him retrieve them. They say it's against the law. 

According to a report published in The Telegraph, Howells began mining bitcoin on his personal laptop in 2009. In 2013, though, "after I had stopped mining, the laptop I had used was broken into parts and sold on eBay," Howells tells The Telegraph.

He kept the drive he used to collect the bitcoins, "so if bitcoin did become valuable one day, I would still have the coins I mined."

But, while cleaning his home in 2013, he mistakenly put it into a waste bin at his local landfill site in Newport, South Wales, where it got buried.

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/officials-wont-let-a-man-look-for-dollar135-million-in-bitcoin-he-threw-away/ar-BBH5d3F?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp

 

 

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7 minutes ago, balki1867 said:

^^ LOL that just made my day, and it's only 9am in Chicago.

 

That said, how is it 3 degrees during the day, 23 at night and then 0 again during the day on Sunday-Monday?

 

Do you know Jenny? She will keep things hot at night.

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2 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

It's always funny that old people think seeing that sequence of numbers anywhere is the height of comedy.  

 

 

 

 

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I hereby summon a curse upon you: That song will be ear-wormed into your head all weekend.  So there.

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10 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

 

I hereby summon a curse upon you: That song will be ear-wormed into your head all weekend.  So there.

 

I've never even heard the song, so it cannot possible get stuck in my head.  I am just aware of it's existence because that sequence of numbers is just the funniest damn thing ever to old timers. ;)

 

It's like the movie Mean Girls.  I am aware of the cultural references, but have never seen the movie.  

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5 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

I've never even heard the song, so it cannot possible get stuck in my head.  I am just aware of it's existence because that sequence of numbers is just the funniest damn thing ever to old timers. ;)

 

It's like the movie Mean Girls.  I am aware of the cultural references, but have never seen the movie.  

 

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