Man Who Accidentally Threw Away $500 Million Bitcoin Fortune Sues To Dig Up Lost Hard Drive

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.

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UK man sues council after it denied requests to dig for lost Bitcoin hard drive in landfill

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Welsh Man Offers Local Council $72 Million to Dig Up Bitcoin Hard Drive

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