2025-02-10 20:59:05

UK man looks to buy landfill site amid search for $784m lost Bitcoin

James Howells claims to have lost a hard drive with 8,000 BTC at a landfill site in 2013. The man now wants to buy the landfill site as the search for the lost BTC worth over $784 million continues. James Howells, the man who has been in search of his lost bitcoin worth over $784 […] The post UK man looks to buy landfill site amid search for $784m lost Bitcoin appeared first on CoinJournal.
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