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💽 Back in 2013, James Howells tossed a hard drive into the trash.
But it wasn’t just any hard drive.
Inside were 8,000 Bitcoins. $BTC
He worked in IT and had mined those coins back in 2009 almost by accident, when BTC was worth pennies. He cleaned it all up without a second thought. And that drive ended up in the Newport landfill, Wales.
Today, that drive is worth over $500 million. 💀$USDT
Howells has been trying for years to get permission to dig it up. The local council keeps saying no. Their reasons: environmental impact, cost, and a policy on "non-recoverable waste."
The landfill has over 1.5 million tons of accumulated garbage.
A few months ago, Howells made a formal offer with robotics and AI tech to do a surgical dig. Newport said no again.
The drive is still there.
Buried under tons of Welsh trash, just waiting.
Would you have kept trying, or would you have written off that money as a loss?
#bitcoin #HistoriaCripto #InstitutoBlockchain #FranBerlin
But it wasn’t just any hard drive.
Inside were 8,000 Bitcoins. $BTC
He worked in IT and had mined those coins back in 2009 almost by accident, when BTC was worth pennies. He cleaned it all up without a second thought. And that drive ended up in the Newport landfill, Wales.
Today, that drive is worth over $500 million. 💀$USDT
Howells has been trying for years to get permission to dig it up. The local council keeps saying no. Their reasons: environmental impact, cost, and a policy on "non-recoverable waste."
The landfill has over 1.5 million tons of accumulated garbage.
A few months ago, Howells made a formal offer with robotics and AI tech to do a surgical dig. Newport said no again.
The drive is still there.
Buried under tons of Welsh trash, just waiting.
Would you have kept trying, or would you have written off that money as a loss?
#bitcoin #HistoriaCripto #InstitutoBlockchain #FranBerlin
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