2024-10-15 17:40 |
A British man who mistakenly discarded a hard drive with a trove of Bitcoin on it has launched a legal claim against a local council as a last-resort effort to be able to search for it in a landfill site. origin »
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In 2013, Howells accidentally threw out the hard drive his bitcoin stash that he had mined in 2009, worth around $1 million at the time but which now would be worth over $520 million.
2024-10-15 18:08 | |
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James Howell has been trying to get his lost hard drive back for 10 years Howell mined 8,000 Bitcoin on his laptop after learning about Bitcoin in 2009 The council have denied Howell’s requests to dig due to “environmental concerns” A 39-year-old man is suing Newport City Council for $646 million (£495,314,800 million) in damages […] The post UK man sues council after it denied requests to dig for lost Bitcoin hard drive in landfill appeared first on CoinJournal.
2024-10-14 12:10 | |
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James Howells, a Welsh Bitcoin investor and the man who inadvertently lost $557 million worth of BTC in a flash drive is seeking to file a lawsuit against Newport City Council (NCC) in the United Kingdom for refusing his requests to excavate the area he presumed he misplaced the hard drive.
2023-9-12 19:00 | |
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The A Hard Working Man digital collectibles project is set to alter how people think about digital assets in Web3 — early access passes are available now.
2023-2-9 20:14 | |
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The British man who accidentally threw away a computer with 7,500 bitcoins on its hard drive has come up with a new plan to retrieve his lost coins from the city landfill. “We estimate there are between 300,000 – 400,000 tons of waste to look through,” he said. Man on Mission to Retrieve 7,500 Lost […]
2021-7-10 16:30 | |
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The British IT professional has revealed that his attempt to recover his lost fortune has been sponsored by a multi-billion dollar hedge fund that is willing to cover any and all costs associated with the hunt, including all necessary equipment.
2021-7-9 21:05 | |
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James Howells wants to embark on a year-long landfill search to discover his missing hard drive that contains roughly $378 million worth of Bitcoin
2021-7-9 22:36 | |
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Bitcoin is once again in the news, the subject of internet chatter, and watercoolor talk. It is for the first time also the darling of Wall Street, beating out every other financial asset under the sun.
2021-1-22 18:30 | |
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James Howells, a 35-year old British Engineer, is reportedly on a hunt for his BTC hardware wallet that he had accidentally discarded in 2013 while doing some house clean-up. According to a South Wales Argus report, Howells had appealed to the councils of the city where he resides, Newport, to excavate a landfill site where […]
2021-1-16 23:29 | |
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A man has accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins. He is now offering his city 25% of the value of the bitcoins stored in the hard drive for permission to search the city’s landfill site.
2021-1-16 19:35 | |
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The Missing Bitcoin Millions James Howells is searching for buried treasure, bitcoin style. The Welshman is negotiating with his local council in an attempt to recover an old hard drive that was disposed of in 2013.
2021-1-15 20:27 | |
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The American gold rush was marked by a host of hard times and a few sudden millionaires. Men gave up everything to travel to California in hopes of striking it rich. But the man who really struck it rich during the gold rush was Levi Strauss, a simple tailor who made tough cotton pants for.
2019-11-13 15:09 | |
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David Marcus, the man in charge of getting Facebook‘s controversial ‘cryptocurrency‘ Libra off the ground, has fired back at a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report that claimed MasterCard, one of the project‘s backers, was thinking about potentially pulling out.
2019-10-2 20:06 | |
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An Australian man has been charged after authorities linked him to a cryptocurrency account used to buy child exploitation material. An investigation, following a tip off from US authorities in December last year, traced the account back to a 27-year-old man from Sydney.
2019-7-9 12:09 | |
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October 1, 2018, marked five years since I was imprisoned. My physical surroundings today are ironically similar to what they were after my arrest back in 2013. I’m in the SHU again (Special Housing Unit, aka “the hole”).
2019-5-29 22:50 | |
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By CCN: Craig Wright has filed copyright registrations for the bitcoin whitepaper and the early Bitcoin code with the US Copyright Office. It’s the latest step in Craig Wright’s battle to prove he is bitcoin’s creator and the man behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
2019-5-21 16:21 | |
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Thanks to Trump, Iran is between a rock and a hard place. As US sanctions squeeze the country tighter, inflation rises, and war drums echo in the distance, its people are flocking to Bitcoin. Storm Clouds Are Gathering Over Iran Powered by an erratic, unpredictable man egged on by extremist advisors, this US administration is playing a dangerous game.
2019-5-20 16:00 | |
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Since the very start, people have lost bitcoins due to human error. Mislaid wallets, forgotten passwords, broken hard drives, hacks, and scams have conspired to remove over 20% of all BTC from circulation by some estimates.
2019-4-30 01:10 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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Amit Bhardwaj, a man accused of running a $300-million Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, has reportedly been granted bail on medical grounds, citing a deteriorating kidney condition. The former entrepreneur, who was arrested in Bangkok last year, was reportedly admitted into Apollo Hospital in India, maintaning he needed regular dialysis treatment to treat his condition.
2019-4-4 13:46 | |
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Steven Craig Wright, the man who has, on various occasions, claimed to be Bitcoin’s legendary creator (or creators) Satoshi Nakamoto is trying to build a cryptocurrency and blockchain patent empire.
2019-3-18 18:19 | |
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2020 US presidential candidate and alleged fugitive John McAfee is a hard man to reach these days. He only speaks in 5-minute intervals on the phone, hanging up and returning to the call hours later from a different oceanic location on his yacht.
2019-2-4 22:01 | |
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This is the third instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 and on Day 2.
2019-1-18 00:05 | |
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Peter Brandt, the man who predicted the Bitcoin price dropping 85 percent in 2018, has appeared to call “capitulation” of the largest cryptocurrency. ‘Capitulation For A Time’ In a tweet, December 20, Brandt, who in January this year warned Bitcoin was heading to below $4000, reacted to this week’s sudden reversal of price declines across crypto markets.
2018-12-20 16:00 | |
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Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
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Over the past two years, there have been many airdrops, hard forks, scam coins and other events. As investors scramble to participate in these events, CPA’s and tax professionals are struggling to keep up with the rules and regulations.
2018-9-1 08:00 | |
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David Veksler of Walletrecovery. info has seen it all. News. Bitcoin. com caught up with the man many in the ecosystem call upon when the ‘you-know-what’ hits the fan. Lost seeds. Fires.
2018-8-26 23:30 | |
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A South Korean businessman has unfortunately lost $2. 3 million worth of bitcoin after he exchanged the cryptocurrency for crude, photocopied fake Euros. The Hard Fork reported on August 20, 2018, that a Serbian man and his accomplice managed to lure the South Korean businessman with the false intention of investing in his business.
2018-8-23 08:00 | |
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Litecoin creator Charlie Lee is a hard man to please, so when he endorses a crypto project, people generally sit up and take note. On August 2, 2018, he retweeted a tweet announcing the launch of Sparkswap, a revolutionary new method of trading crypto across blockchains with all the speed advantages of a centralized exchange, but without any of the.
2018-8-10 07:50 | |
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As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Bitcoin may have kicked off 2025 with a rebound back to $100,000, but since the release of the U. S. Federal Reserve’s December 2024 Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Jan. 8, the BTC/USD exchange rate dropped to as low as $91,220.
As speculation about the possibility of Donald Trump developing a strategic Bitcoin reserve in the United States (US), one crypto pundit has laid out a compelling sequence of events they believe must occur before such a move becomes a reality.
Bitcoin‘s price has demonstrated remarkable performance in the last few days, revisiting the pivotal $100,000 threshold. With the general crypto market recovery strong following recent news about Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new president of the United States, BTC could muster enough momentum to reclaim its current all-time high.
Bitcoin (BTC) exhibited a strong rally on Wednesday, spearheading a market surge as the total cryptocurrency market capitalization rose 3. 82% to $3. 49 trillion within 24 hours. The surge comes amid heightened optimism within the cryptocurrency community, fueled by anticipation of policy reforms under the upcoming U.