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News@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

After 12 years of research, the man who threw away a hard drive containing $742 million in Bitcoins is forced to abandon his search.

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After 12 years of research, the man who threw away a hard drive containing $742 million in Bitcoins is forced to abandon his search.

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News@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

In a tale that seems stranger than fiction, a man's 12-year quest to recover a lost fortune in Bitcoin has come to an abrupt end. James Howells, a British IT worker, has been forced to abandon his search for a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins, worth an astonishing $800 million…

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I mean, there’s 5$ in Bitcoin and then there’s nearly a billion dollars in Bitcoin. NGL id probably do the same
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  That 5$ could have been about 15btc in the beginning of 2011, so 1.5M$ today
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    Still orders of magnitude in difference…
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    This hurts too much to read

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