Man sues council for £495m over a lost Bitcoin hard drive in landfill

The sort of person who apparently keeps an unlabelled hard disk containing valuable data in a drawer for three years. From 2013:

“Fast forward to 2013 which is when I had a clearout of my old IT equipment - I hadn’t used this drive for over three years, I believed I’d taken everything off it… so it got thrown in the bin.”

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