Man offers city $72M to dig up accidentally discarded Bitcoin fortune

James Howells, the owner of a discarded hard drive with 7,500 (BTC), has made a fresh plea to excavate a landfill site and possibly recover the device.

Back in 2013, Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 BTC while cleaning his house. The Bitcoin stash came from Howell’s mining activity back when it was still possible to use CPUs to mine Bitcoin/