A British systems employee promises to donate half of that money if they help him find the equipment. And he believes that the currency will be worth $ 100 thousand soon
As the price of bitcoin grows exponentially - on Wednesday it was trading at $ 14,300 - it also increases the desperation of James Howells, a British systems employee who lost a hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins. That is, more than US $ 107 million.
Howells started mining the cryptocurrency in 2009, shortly after its launch, and had achieved a considerable sum. However, he stopped doing it because the server emitted a hellish noise that bothered his girlfriend.
Four years ago, this 32-year-old IT employee threw away his old computer, whose hard drive kept the keys to his virtual fortune, which by then was worth no less than $ 700,000.
Now he wants to recover it, he knows in what landfill of the city of Newport, in Wales, he is and even contacted the owners to recover the disk, but the process would be very expensive.
"Yes, the codes on my hard drive could be worth $ 100 million today, I know the public address where the funds are kept so I can see them, it's like having billions in your bank account, but not being able to spend them," he said. Howells.
Such is his desperation that he ran on Twitter as mayor of Newport in the upcoming elections to help him find the record and donate 50% of his holdings in the city in exchange.
- James Howells (
) December 4, 2017
"I'm not sitting here crying about this, accidents happen, bitcons are still there, only they are inaccessible," he said.
However, Howells said he is "happy that bitcoin has taken off so much". In addition, he predicted that soon he will spend US $ 100,000. "It's a question of when, not if it will happen," he added.
"The next logical step in a connected world is a global currency based on cronyism," he concluded.
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