A UK man who accidentally had a hard drive with eight thousand Bitcoin in it wants to buy the landfill where it ended up. The site is being closed and a solar farm is taking its place. James Howell mistakenly threw out the hard drive during a spring clean in 2013. The Bitcoin is now worth about $620-million, but the town still isn’t budging. about Howells looking through the site, which is why he opted to buy the place. Howells may have to resign himself to the Bitcoin being gone forever.
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