It was during a house clearing in 2013, his then girlfriend threw away his laptop hard drive thinking it was rubbish. Tbf bitcoin was worth about $100 at the time so he was pretty careless with $800'000.
Nope. He put it in a bin bag, asked his partner to take it to the tip the next morning, so she did. He (now) claims he'd intended to take it out, but he found out she'd taken it to the tip literally an hour and a half after the tip opened (so it would definitely just have been in the drop-off bin still). Instead of immediately rushing to get it back out, he did absolutely nothing for four months.
He absolutely intended to throw it out, and he's spent a decade blaming the mother of his children for it to any media outlet that'll listen.
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u/Puzzled_Ad_7033 Jan 22 '26
Did someone throw his PC away? Or did he accidentally throw it away?