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$7.5M Bitcoin Fortune Buried in Landfill

28
Nov
2013

Sitting beneath about four feet of garbage in an area of a Welsh landfill the size of a football field sits a fortune—in the form of a computer hard drive that James Howells threw out this summer while cleaning up his workspace. On it: the cryptographic “private key” he…

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