Treasure hunt for £4m worth of Bitcoins buried on hard drive at landfill site

Digital 'wallet' of 7,500 coins of the virtual currency believed to be beneath four feet of rubbish at south Wales recycling centre, and is worth more than £4.1 million

By Daniel Johnson 4:41PM GMT 27 Nov 2013

A hard drive which holds more than £4 million worth of Bitcoins, the virtual currency, is buried beneath several feet of mud at a recycling plant in south Wales, it has been claimed.

The computer hard drive was reportedly thrown away by its owner several months ago, along with the Dell laptop it came from, with 7,500 Bitcoins stored on it, at a waste recycling centre in Pillgwenlly, Newport.

According to a post on the social news website Reddit, the coins were collected or “mined” – a process where computer users solve complex mathematical equations and are rewarded with Bitcoins – when they were almost worthless.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10478871/Treasure-hunt-for-4m-worth-of-Bitcoins-buried-on-hard-drive-at-landfill-site.html

-- The Telegraph 2013-11-27

So did the owner not know they were on there?!

So did the owner not know they were on there?!

errrrrrrr...????? YES. He knew.

(Why not actually read the link.....all is revealed!!)

Because it's a subscription site and you can only read 10 a month free, which I've already done.

Try here

He's works in IT, but hadn't backed up his hard drive.

Even I know better than that.