James Howells is still hard at work trying to retrieve the hard drive he accidentally pitched. Howells believes it’s somewhere hiding deep inside a landfill in Newport, England. Why does he want it back so badly? He says that within it lurks around 8K bitcoin. At the time the hard drive was accidentally thrown away, he says they were worth just over $5 million. That was a decade ago. Today, he says that hard drive is worth over $722 million. If there was ever a time that dumpster diving was worth it, this would be it.
Source: BBC