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2009年的时候，比特币一文不值，28岁的英国IT男子James Howells, 当时购买了7500个比特币。 之后他更新电脑，旧电脑里已经扔到垃圾场，现在他意识到，比特币已经每个价值$1000，如果他能找回他的旧电脑，那么他能马上成为亿万富翁！ 目前他的旧电脑应该在Newport，Wales，一个垃圾场里。联络垃圾场后，被告知4个月前的垃圾应该已经埋在1.5米深的地下了。一般警方对垃圾场的搜查都需要20个人和数头警犬。James说他没有资金雇人帮他挖掘。 James说搬家和日程琐事让他忘记了bitcoin的事，知道最近才意识到7500个比特币在旧电脑里，已经扔到垃圾场。 原文 http://www.news.com.au/money/mon ... rfmd9-1226770932955 A BRITISH IT worker has launched a frantic search of a landfill site after realising he accidentally threw away a computer drive holding $7.5 million in the online currency bitcoin. James Howells, 28, obtained 7500 bitcoins in 2009 when the currency was virtually worthless. Its value has since soared, with a single bitcoin hitting $1000 for the first time on Tuesday. Mr Howells left the hard drive in a drawer for several years, and threw it away earlier this year without a second thought. To his horror, he then realised what it had contained - and that he would be a millionaire, if he could only find it. He now faces the prospect of a painstaking hunt through a massive landfill site in his home city of Newport, Wales, he told BBC television on Thursday. "When I went to the tip the manager took me up to the current landfill site and when I saw it -- it's about the size of a football field - my first thought was 'no chance'," he said. "The manager explained that things that were sent to landfill three or four months ago could be three to five feet (1.5 metres) deep. "He confirmed my worst fears when he said that." Large-scale searches of the landfill site - including those for police evidence - usually involve up to 20 workers with digging equipment and dogs, he added. "The truth is, I haven't got the funds or ability to make that happen at the moment without a definite pay cheque at the end of it," Mr Howells said. He told the BBC he forgot about the bitcoin stash because he was "distracted by family life and moving house". The hard drive was thrown out between mid-June and August, he believes. He has checked all of his back-up files without success. Launched in 2009 as the invention of a mysterious computer guru who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoins can be exchanged online for real money or used to buy goods and services on the Internet. The currency is not regulated by any government. |
