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$500M Bitcoin Buried in Landfill: Man Sues City After Decade-Long Battle for Recovery
14.10.2024
James Howells is suing Newport City Council after a decade-long fight to recover a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, now worth nearly $500 million, mistakenly dumped in 2013. The council has repeatedly denied excavation requests, citing environmental concerns. Howells claims the data...
Crypto Recovery Firm Offers to Unlock Former Ripple CTO’s $244 Million Bitcoin Fortune
26.10.2023
Crypto recovery firm Unciphered has extended an offer to former Ripple chief technology officer (CTO) Stefan Thomas to unlock a hard drive containing over 7,000 Bitcoin ( BTC) that he has been unable to access for years. In a Wednesday open letter, Unciphered proposed to unlock Thomas’...
Recovery firm proposes cracking former Ripple CTO's $244M Bitcoin hard drive
25.10.2023
Stefan Thomas, the former chief technology officer at Ripple, has an IronKey hard drive containing 7,002 BTC with only two attempts at guessing a password remaining
Today in Crypto: Team of Hackers Says It Can Get to 7,002 BTC Locked in Encrypted Hard Drive, Bitget Wallet Launches a 'Keyless' MPC Wallet
24.10.2023
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Fight for Lost BTC in Garbage Dump Continues for British Man, SBF Possibly Abused in Jail, and More — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review
17.9.2023
Former IT professional James Howells is still struggling to recover 7,500 lost bitcoins from a hard drive in a South Wales landfill, after years of failed negotiations with a local city council. Howells is now preparing to take legal action in order to sift through the waste to find his misplaced...
Toyota Had To Shut Down 14 Factories After PCs Ran Out Of Hard Drive Space
11.9.2023
In August, Toyota was forced to shut down over a dozen auto plants in Japan due to unspecified computer problems. Some theorized it was a cyberattack of some kind, but Toyota denied this and has now revealed what actually happened: Its computers ran out of disk space and everything broke. Read more
Man Plans to Sue City Over Refusal to Dig for 7,500 Lost Bitcoin in Landfill
10.9.2023
James Howells, a bitcoin enthusiast who misplaced 7,500 bitcoin (BTC) in a South Wales landfill, is gearing up to take legal action against the local city council for barring his efforts to unearth the missing hard drive from 2013. This former IT professional, now 38, has been at odds with Newport...
7 Ways To Save Space On Your PS5’s SSD
9.2.2023
While a stock 825 GB storage drive on PS5 (for either the digital or disc-based versions of the console) might’ve sounded like an oasis of endless storage in days now long gone, the colossal size of many titles means that any active PS5 user is likely to run into space issues at some point....
Craig Wright Tells Court He ‘Stomped on the Hard Drive’ Containing Satoshi Wallet Keys
15.9.2022
“Otherwise people will end up forcing me into doing something I don’t want to do,” the self-styled Bitcoin creator told a Norwegian court
Elon Musk Gets Into Embarrassing Fight With Video Game Site, Loses
31.5.2022
When I was six, I peed my pants in class because I was too proud to use my public school bathroom. Similarly, suave billionaire and alleged sexual harasser Elon Musk peed his proverbial pants after a Twitter scuffle with the satirical video game site Hard Drive. Neither Musk nor Hard Drive returned...
Man Who Accidentally Threw Away 7,500 Bitcoins on Hard Drive Has New Plan to Retrieve His BTC
10.7.2021
The British man who accidentally threw away a computer with 7,500 bitcoins on its hard drive has come up with a new plan to retrieve his lost coins from the city landfill. “We estimate there are between 300,000 – 400,000 tons of waste to look through,” he said. Man on Mission...
How to farm Chia: A guide to XCH token farming using a hard drive
4.7.2021
A guide to Chia Network: farming, building a rig, the hard drive deficit and the future of the project
Bittorrent Creator Bram Cohen’s Crypto Project Chia Sparks Hard Drive and SSD Shortages
25.4.2021
On May 3, tokens stemming from the Chia network, a smart transaction blockchain created by the Bittorrent creator Bram Cohen, will start trading and transactions will be fully enabled. Rather than leveraging the proof-of-work consensus algorithm, Chia will utilize a model called proof-of-space...
Wednesday's Best Deals: Hard Drive Sale, PlayStation Store Gift Card, Kyoku Damascus Knives, The Ordinary Peeling Solution, The Art of Super Mario Odyssey, and More
31.3.2021
A hard drive sale and PlayStation Store gift cards lead Wednesday’s best deals.Read more
Get a 12TB Hard Drive for $190 and Never Worry About Storage Again
17.2.2021
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Cybersecurity firm uses encrypted hard drive with Bitcoin to test applicants
18.1.2021
Successful applicants can use the funds to buy a ticket to the company's headquarters
Man Accidentally Threw Away Hard Drive With 7,500 Bitcoins, Offers City $72 Million to Search Landfill
15.1.2021
A man has accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins. He is now offering his city 25% of the value of the bitcoins stored in the hard drive for permission to search the city’s landfill site. His bitcoins are now worth almost $300 million at the current price. In Search...
Tuesday's Best Deals: Bulk Snacks, AeroGarden Harvest, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Dino Egg Dig Kit, 18TB External Hard Drive, Tacklife Portable Power Station, and More
12.1.2021
Bulk snacks and the AeroGarden Harvest lead Tuesday’s best deals.Read more