Posted 3/26/2024, 6:46:14 PM
Crypto Investor Seeks to Excavate Landfill for $560 Million Bitcoin Trove
- Early crypto investor files lawsuit to excavate UK landfill and find hard drive with $560 million in Bitcoin
- In 2013, he accidentally threw out the hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin he had mined
- He believes the hard drive is buried under 100,000 tons of trash in a specific area of a Wales landfill
- The local council has denied his requests to search the landfill due to environmental regulations
- He now has financial backing from hedge fund investors who would get a share of any retrieved Bitcoin