2023-10-26 00:32 |
Stefan Thomas, the former chief technology officer at Ripple, has an IronKey hard drive containing 7,002 BTC with only two attempts at guessing a password remaining. origin »
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Upon hearing the judge’s decision, Howells said “it’s the great British justice system striking again” Howells lost his hard drive in 2013 when it was accidentally thrown away at the tip He has been trying to engage with Newport City Council for 12 years to recover his hard drive, but says he’s been “largely ignored” […] The post UK judge says there’s no “reasonable grounds” for success with Bitcoin landfill hard drive case appeared first on CoinJournal.
2025-1-10 10:39 | |
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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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An investor lost over 8,000 BTC after his hard drive was scrapped. Now, he will sue the UK council because he was not allowed to dig it up. According to The Telegraph, former engineer James Howells lost 8,000 Bitcoins (BTC)…
2023-9-11 14:42 | |
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Binance has dedicated itself since its inception to advancing global financial freedom. Crypto assets have made this possible, and furthering their acceptance will significantly impact social and financial inclusion by working hard to achieve goals by creating great products, hiring…
2022-9-22 16:25 | |
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“Otherwise people will end up forcing me into doing something I don’t want to do,” the self-styled Bitcoin creator told a Norwegian court.
2022-9-15 04:43 | |
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James Howells, a British IT professional shocked many when he reported that he threw away a computer hard drive in which $382 million worth of Bitcoins had been stored. He accidentally threw it away in 2013 when cleaning his workplace.
2021-7-10 17:42 | |
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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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A guide to Chia Network: farming, building a rig, the hard drive deficit and the future of the project.
2021-7-4 15:34 | |
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With all recent attention being focused on energy-efficient crypto projects, Chia has taken the spotlight by netting major investments from venture capital giants. The post Chia Network’s ‘Green Crypto’ Nets $60M in Funding, Hard Drive Prices Surge appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-5-25 12:53 | |
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The race is on to become the next mainstream cryptocurrency that doesn’t contribute millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions due to unsustainable mining practices. Now, a new cryptocurrency called Chia, founded by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, is promising to make mining cryptocurrencies at home a whole lot easier (again).
2021-6-8 21:14 | |
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Cardano is about to enter a new era. Q2, 2021 will mark the deployment of its smart contract capabilities with Hard Fork Combinator event “Alonzo” and its integration with Plutus, the platform that will drive it.
2021-5-13 15:59 | |
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On May 3, tokens stemming from the Chia network, a smart transaction blockchain created by the Bittorrent creator Bram Cohen, will start trading and transactions will be fully enabled. Rather than leveraging the proof-of-work consensus algorithm, Chia will utilize a model called proof-of-space which relies on storage.
2021-4-25 15:00 | |
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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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Red Balloon Cyber Security Company is using a unique way to get their next recruits. The company asks prospective candidates to crack an encrypted hard drive before they are offered the opportunity to work with the security firm.
2021-1-20 00:18 | |
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Successful applicants can use the funds to buy a ticket to the company's headquarters.
2021-1-19 01:10 | |
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Keys lost, coins lost The UK’s National Cyber Security Council broached the topic of unreachable BTC in its weekly threat report. The report attributes the loss to password or key deletion caused by mistaken hard drive disposal or reformatting.
2021-1-17 22:01 | |
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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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James Howells, an IT Engineer, is offering a percentage of his Bitcoin stash to the Newport City council to dig up a hard drive containing over 7,000 bitcoins that he accidentally discarded. Howells Seeks to Recover 7,500 BTC According to the South Wales Argus, James Howells was renewing his appeal to the city council toRead More
2021-1-15 02:00 | |
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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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DeFi is the new cool in crypto circles. It has, undoubtedly, opened up new opportunities and is part of the bigger drive by the crypto community to democratize finance. Lending, trading, borrowing, and more are now available to people.
2020-12-22 17:42 | |
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A Bitcoin Cash upgrade that would mandate all newly minted blocks donate 8% to development is threatening to drive a hard fork in November.
2020-8-20 06:37 | |
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Get a giant hard drive from the Filecoin team stuffed with data on climate, the world's literature or the human genome and get ready to earn some crypto.
2020-5-8 23:25 | |
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla sounds like one massive game as Ubisoft reveals that no less than 15 studios are collaborating on the game. The post Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is Going to Viking-Smash Your Hard Drive appeared first on CCN.com
2020-4-30 13:48 | |
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Final Fantasy IX's latest update caused the game to delete itself from your hard drive. And no, it wasn't a belated April Fools' prank. The post Final Fantasy IX Commits Suicide – And No, It’s Not an April Fools’ Prank appeared first on CCN.com
2020-4-3 20:24 | |
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In the world of technology, there are many different problems to watch out for. A new identified bug by Hewlett Packard Enterprise shows how SSDs may stop working after 40,000 hours. It is always worrisome when a computer’s hard drive dies.
2020-3-26 06:00 | |
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Call of Duty Warzone is a great game, but with unstable networks and large file size, it's just not worth it during self-isolation. That hard drive space is better spent on single-player games which will still be usable if the networks have extended down-time.
2020-3-18 09:41 | |
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Coinspeaker Twitter’s Jack Dorsey May Help Bitcoin Price Drive to $100,000Jack Dorsey is working hard to deliver the new Bitcoin scaling solution that may help the Lightning Network developers.
2020-1-27 19:02 | |
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The Chinese President’s endorsement of blockchain will inevitably drive major adoption of cryptocurrencies, says Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao
2019-11-15 12:27 | |
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Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, has moved boldly with another prediction. This time, seeing Bitcoin hit $16,000 soon. CZ Among Top Bitcoin Influencers Binance’s CEO has been one of the most influential voices in crypto, though not without critics and detractors.
2019-11-1 18:24 | |
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There are more than 2000 cryptocurrencies currently “live” but only a handful of them provide some utility and can justify their existence. Sia coin is definitely one of those coins. SC is known for their decentralized cloud storage.
2019-11-1 22:27 | |
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Blockstream CEO, Adam Back, says that the company is looking at implementing a method by which lost bitcoin will become recoverable. But before you stop trawling through the tip for that old hard drive you threw out, he wasn’t referring to those lost bitcoin.
2019-10-23 14:23 | |
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The Ethereum (ETH) leadership is showing signs of becoming a force to be reckoned with, commented bitcoin pioneer Nick Szabo. While Ethereum was inherently democratic, the need to perform a series of hard forks and upgrades has put the developer team in charge.
2019-10-15 20:00 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Let’s be honest: with the volume of pics we snap these days, everyone could use some extra storage to hoard frozen memories (and selfies).
2019-10-3 14:45 | |
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The President of the United States has once again called on the Federal Reserve to significantly lower interest rates. For Dan Tapiero, of DTAP Capital, such a “debasement of the dollar” would benefit Bitcoin and other hard, store-of-value assets.
2019-9-12 01:00 | |
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Hundreds of dental offices across the US have been crippled by a ransomware attack targeting a remote data backup service offered by a third-party. PerCSoft and Digital Dental Record (DDR) — the two Wisconsin-based software companies — provide a solution called DDS Safe that delivers triple-layer protection by backing up sensitive medical records to the cloud, an offline workstation, and an in-office hard disk drive.
2019-8-30 15:28 | |
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Presenting itself as an app to help players cheat at the online battle royale game Fortnite, Syrk encrypts files on a user’s hard drive and demands a ransom paid in crypto. If the ransom is not paid, the malicious software begins deleting files one by one.
2019-8-28 18:50 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! You can never have too much digital stuff. Whether that’s music, movies, photos, documents, or whatever else tickles your virtual fantasies, it’s all good.
2019-8-24 15:01 | |
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During his blanket endorsement to buy gold as central banks loosen their monetary policy, veteran investor Mark Mobius said that the rise of cryptocurrencies will only further drive the demand for hard assets like gold.
2019-8-21 16:16 | |
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Just yesterday we told you how there was a new Faketoshi in town, staking a questionable claim to the Bitcoin throne in a three-part blog series. Last night saw the release of parts two and three, where Faketoshi deep dives into his alleged creation of Bitcoin, explains why he is unable to move Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins, and reveals his real identity.
2019-8-20 14:38 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! At some point in our lives, most of us have used large computer files. Whether it’s editing videos, managing photo libraries, or even just playing games, having to do something on a creaking, slow hard drive is an absolute pain.
2019-7-7 15:00 | |
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Chief Executive of deVere financial group, Nigel Green, predicts that fears of a no-deal Brexit will drive UK investors towards Bitcoin, if Boris Johnson becomes the next British PM. Hard Brexit Boris Contemporary UK politics is going through the motions of deciding yet another Prime Minister, in the wake of Theresa May stepping down from office at the start of the month.
2019-6-22 18:00 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! I love a good hard drive. It’s such a wonderful feeling to have a tiny little box filled with an array of digital goodies.
2019-6-22 15:00 | |
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Spintronics might not be the sort of word that comes up in everyday discussions, but it has been revolutionising computer technology for years. It’s the branch of physics that involves manipulating the spin of a flow of electrons, which first reached consumers in the late 1990s in the form of magnetic computer hard drives with several hundreds of times the storage capacity of their predecessors.
2019-6-18 15:37 | |
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Nowadays, earning cash through the internet is more than just a trend, it is killing the traditional entertainment industry by hitting it with the hammer justice. Problem is, the new face of normalcy is the conglomerates like Youtube, who now, more than ever, capitalize on the hard work of the content creator.
2019-6-10 11:21 | |
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By CCN: Bitcoin bull Max Keiser has hinted that as Turkey’s economy worsens, Turks could turn to Bitcoin as a hedge. In a tweet, Keiser said that Bitcoin ‘will become a factor for Turks as hard money becomes hard to come by’.
2019-5-22 15:01 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Oh yeah we’ve got something you’re going to like today: a 4TB external hard drive from Western Digital for only $94! Normally, the 4TB My Passport (which is portable btw) retails for $160, but this deal takes 41 percent off and pushes it under a hundred bucks.
2019-5-19 15:00 | |
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Ledger’s “Recover” service may be concerning, but some crypto industry participants think the feature may onboard new users while helping crypto natives.
Ledger Recover is an over-the-air firmware update allowing users to back up their seed phrases by third-party entities if they opt-in to the new service.
Ledger Recover is an OTA firmware update, which would allow users to back up their seed phrases by third-party entities only if a user chooses to opt-in to the new service.
The new SeedQR format allows users to store their private key seed phrases as QR codes, which makes recovery and retrieval easier for bitcoin users.
The new free wallet service from Casa is built on its premium security technology while offering private key management education and encrypted recovery phrase storage. The post Emphasizing User Friendliness With Sovereignty, Casa Launches Free Wallet appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.