The price of a Bitcoin has risen to over $100,000 for the first time. One sad person is suing Newport City Council for the accidental loss of a laptop hard drive deposited in a council waste dump which he alleges contained the keys to 8,000 Bitcoins.
The Council have refused to allow him to excavate the dump to retrieve the laptop and in any case they claim it is now their property.
The moral of this story is that if you are going to speculate in cryptocurrencies take great care of your security and back-ups, particularly if you have a clear-out over the Christmas holidays.
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