Imagine losing a hard drive with millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin! That's what happened to James Howells. He accidentally threw away a hard drive holding about 8,000 Bitcoins, now worth around £600 million!
He's trying to get permission to search a huge landfill to find it. It's a super tough challenge, like finding a tiny needle in a giant haystack – a really, really big haystack!
Let's see if he can do it.
- James lost a hard drive with lots of Bitcoin.
- The Bitcoin is now worth a lot of money.
- He wants to search a big landfill to find it.
- It's very difficult to find the hard drive.
| Fact | Number |
|---|---|
| Number of Bitcoins lost | 8,000 |
| Estimated value of lost Bitcoin (£) | 600,000,000 |
| Size of landfill (square meters) | 500,000 |
| Approximate chance of finding it | 1 in 143 billion |
