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Regardless of which side you fall on, one thing is for sure: It would be unfortunate to misplace your bitcoin these days. Some unlucky people, however, have done just that. And they're not alone. In fact, around 2. James Howell, an IT worker in the United Kingdom, began mining bitcoin on his personal laptop in The Telegraph reports that his computer broke in but he kept the hard drive in case bitcoin became valuable one day. It did. While cleaning his home that year, he mistakenly put the drive into a waste bin at his local landfill site in Newport, South Wales, where it got buried.
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The U. According to tech website Wired , the landfill is not open to the public and trespassing would be considered a criminal offense. And even if the drive were recovered, it likely would no longer work after being exposed to heavy and potentially toxic waste for so long. Many early Bitcoin investors are in a painful predicament. They can't remember the complex security codes they originally created to gain access to their Bitcoin wallet.