Subject: Oops: £4MILLION in Bitcoins is thrown into landfill site by accident Thu Nov 28, 2013 2:43 am
James Howells, from South Wales, 'generated' the Bitcoins in 2009 on his laptop At the time the 7,500 coins he made were almost completely worthless He later took the hard-drive out of the laptop and kept it in a drawer But he threw it out in 2012 and only remembered the Bitcoins last week Each one is now worth £613 - or £4,597,000 in total