Man offers local authorities £50m to help in his hopeless quest for lost bitcoin fortune

After the recent bitcoin password fiasco, it looks like yet another poor soul is having a hopeless time getting their rightfully owned bitcoin back before the market price dips down again. 

According to The Guardian, computer engineer James Howells just offered Newport council $68m (£50m) to help him scour a landfill site, in the hopes of recovering his mistakenly discarded laptop hard drive and 7,500 bitcoins along with it.

The find, should the HDD even be in working condition, would be worth over $286m (£209m).