James Howells, a computer engineer who claims he mistakenly threw away a hard drive that contained some 7,500-8,000 bitcoin (BTC) during house cleaning in 2013, has pledged to use 10% of this lost stash if/when recovered and turn Newport, UK, into a cryptocurrency hub.
The latest BBC report claims the lost amount of BTC to be 8,000. A number of earlier claims, as reported, put that number at USD 7,500.
At the current rate of USD 22,715 per coin, Howells' lost BTC 8,000 is worth around USD 181.7m. The stash was worth nearly half a billion dollars during Bitcoin's peak in mid-April last year.
If recovered, the computer engineer plans to use 10% of its stash, or BTC 800 (USD 18.17m), to turn the city, the landfill of which presumably holds the device, into a crypto-currency hub, according to BBC. He said his donation would be used to promote the use and understanding of cryptocurrency.
"One of the things we'd like to do on the actual landfill site, once we've cleaned it up and...
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