The £1.5B Bitcoin Blunder: Man's Legal Battle for Lost Crypto

Posted by hotdailys on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:09AM
from the dailymail.co.uk dept.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13201007/Computer-expert-accidentally-threw-Bitcoin-fortune-old-hard-drive-says-worth-1-5BILLION-launches-legal-fight-dig-council-landfill.html

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Re:The £1.5B Bitcoin Blunder: Man's Legal Battle for Lost Cr... by tromp on Monday March 25, 2024 @11:16AM (#39817372)

It's not £1.5B. The article says it would be worth £1.5B if bitcoin becomes worth 25,000, which appears to be a typo (it makes sense if they mean 250,000).

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Re:The £1.5B Bitcoin Blunder: Man's Legal Battle for Lost Cr... by ChrisArchitect on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:43AM (#39816951)

Some recent discussion on this decade-old saga from a piece 2 years ago:

Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29458352

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