Imagine losing almost a billion dollars! That's what might have happened to a man named James. He says he accidentally threw away a hard drive with thousands of Bitcoins, a type of digital money, in a landfill. Bitcoins are like digital gold, stored on computers. This is a crazy story about lost cryptocurrency!
- James lost about 8,000 Bitcoins in 2013.
- Those Bitcoins are now worth around $784 million!
- He tried to get them back, but it didn't work.
- Now he's talking to investors about buying the whole landfill to find the hard drive!
Fact | Number |
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Number of Bitcoins lost | 8,000 |
Current value (approximately) | $784 million |
Year lost | 2013 |