James Howells is probably one of the most unlucky people in the world. According to Guardian, Howells had collected 7.500 Bitcoin 2009 and kept them on a hard disk, until last summer, he threw his record without realizing he was throwing a fortune.
At that time, the Bitcoin exchange rate was 675 thousands of dollars. Today with the sharp increase in the exchange rate of the digital currency their price would exceed 7,5 million dollars.
Howells threw the hard drive that ended up in a landfill near Newport, Wales, which is the size of a football stadium. This means that it is now buried under at least four meters of rubbish.
"I am at a point where I do not know if I should cry or laugh at all this," he told the Guardian. "Why am I not out there with a shovel? I think I just gave up. "
Our history shows the necessity of Backups. Αν κάποιος χάσει data that are useful to him then he really understands how irresponsible it is that he only had them stored in one place. In this particular story
the copies security from the files stored on the hard drive, were so valuable that one day they could make their beneficiary rich.
