This Man Accidentally Throws A Hard Drive That Contains Bitcoin Worth IDR 4.5 Trillion, Makes It Painful!

Bitcoin, is now soaring higher than a few years ago. photo: (Fox Business)

JAKARTA - A man from England named James Howell accidentally threw away a hard drive containing Bitcoin. Reportedly, the hard drive could be worth trillions today.

According to a CNN report, James Howell disposed of a hard drive containing 7,500 Bitcoins in June and August 2013. The man who works in IT is known to have been mining Bitcoin for the previous four years when its value was still small.

But when the crypto value rose sharply, he tried to find the hard drive. Unfortunately, Howell had thrown the hard drive in the trash.

The British man even offered more than 70 million US dollars to the relevant authorities to dig into the landfill site (TPA). However, his request was rejected.

"I'm offering to donate 25 percent or US$71.7 million to the city of Newport to distribute to all local residents living in Newport if I find and recover bitcoins. This will generate approximately US$239) per person for the entire city (316,000 population). Unfortunately, they refused the offer and would not even have a direct discussion with me about this issue," he explained.

Not discouraged, the man said he might be able to find out the location of his hard drive. When interviewed by CNN, Howell claimed to be digging up areas suspected of being where the hard drive was using a grid reference and recovering the hard drive.

Will be fixed

Howell also said if the hard drive will be repaired and try to be able to access his Bitcoin.

"The drive will then be presented to a data recovery specialist who can rebuild the drive from scratch with new spare parts and try to recover the small data I need to access my bitcoins," Howell said.

If it is assumed, the price of Bitcoin when he realized he lost the hard drive was around 9 million US dollars. However, it is currently estimated that the price has risen to US$ 317.178 million or IDR 4.54 trillion with the current exchange rate of IDR 14,300/US dollar.