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| James Howels (Twitter capture) who offered a donation, saying, “Please let me dig the landfill where Bitcoin Drive is buried.” |
A British man, who accidentally discarded a hard disk drive containing hundreds of billions of billions of dollars of bitcoin, promised a huge donation to local authorities to dig a landfill to get it back.
According to CNN broadcast on the 16th, James Howells, an IT industry worker in Newport, Wales, UK, said that his drive containing bitcoin is believed to have been buried in a landfill. Proposed to Newport City Council to donate.
According to him, the drive contains 7,500 bitcoins. Currently, the price of 1 bitcoin is KRW 41 million, which is equivalent to KRW 37.5 billion.
He, who has been mining cryptocurrency since 2009, is said to have forgotten the existence of this drive due to its very low value at the time.
He started looking for this drive when the price of 1 bitcoin soared to 1,200 dollars (about 1.3 million won). However, Howells learned that in June or August 2013, he accidentally discarded it.
Immediately after finding a garbage dump and tracking the drive’s whereabouts, he made a plan to dig a specific part of the landfill using a coordinate reference system.
Howells told CNN, “If I get my bitcoin back, I will donate 25% of my bitcoin or £52.5 million. If the promise is fulfilled, the 316,000 Newport City residents will each receive £175 (about 260,000 won). You can get each one.”
He explained, “I give back about half of the money to those who have invested in this plan, and I have the remaining 25%.”
The authorities are in a position that they cannot dig the area he said due to environmental issues.
Newport City Council said, “Currently this is not allowed. Digging this site will have a major impact on the environment in the surrounding area. It could cost millions of pounds in the process of digging up a landfill and re-burying and disposing of the debris.” said. ()
