James Howells, an IT specialist living in the United Kingdom, knows precisely where his lost 7,500 bitcoins are however the city gathering where he lives won't let him recover them. They say it's illegal.
As per a report distributed in The Telegraph, Howells started mining bitcoin on his own PC in 2009. In 2013, however, "after I had quit mining, the workstation I had utilized was broken into parts and sold on eBay," Howells reveals to The Telegraph.
He kept the drive he used to gather the bitcoins, "so if bitcoin became important one day, I would even now have the coins I mined."
Be that as it may, while cleaning his home in 2013, he erroneously place it into a waste receptacle at his nearby landfill site in Newport, South Wales, where it got covered.
Presently, with bitcoin's esteem drifting simply above $17,000 Wednesday, as indicated by advanced money site CoinDesk, Howells' 7,500 lost bitcoins are worth more than $127 million. CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index tracks costs from computerized money trades Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Coinbase and itBit.
Over four years of refuse have filled the landfill since his misstep, which would endeavor a noteworthy endeavor. "A cutting edge landfill is a mind boggling building task and uncovering one raises a wide range of ecological issues, for example, perilous gasses and potential landfill fires," Howells says. "It's a major, costly and dangerous venture."