新华网11月28日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道，你有没有不小心丢过钱？你察觉之后就会去看看钱包，发现钱少了，然后暗恨自己不小心。一位英国IT民工也有同样的感受，不过他丢了750万美元。

　　詹姆斯·豪沃尔斯在2009年做了个明智的决定，那就是在大家还没听说过比特币的时候就开始挖矿了。在他女朋友要求他停止之前，他积攒了7500个比特币。(显然她觉得弄这个太吵了。)今天的汇率是1比特币兑1000美元，也就是说这些比特币价值750万美元。

　　但是今年初，豪沃尔斯做了一件非常愚蠢的事情，他把存有比特币的硬盘扔掉了。不过他实际上做了两件蠢事：1.他把柠檬水洒在了矿机上，然后把矿机低价卖了，这就是他把硬盘拿出来的原因。2.他把硬盘扔到垃圾堆里了。现在他的750万美元躺在当地垃圾填埋场大概4英尺的垃圾下面。

　　不管怎么说，这些钱都没了。豪沃尔斯没钱雇佣一个小队来挖掘那个填埋场，即使挖遍了填埋场他也不一定能找到硬盘。“我现在真是哭笑不得，”他对《卫报》说。“我为什么不拿把铁锹去挖呢？我想我已经承认根本找不到它了。”

　　译者：林杉

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　　Some Fool Threw Away a Hard Drive with $7.5 Million of Bitcoin On It

　　Ever accidentally lose a dollar? Then you count what's in your war chest, realize it's a dollar short, and kick yourself for being careless? Well, a British IT worker knows what that feels like—except times 7.5 million.

　　James Howells did a really smart thing back in 2009 and started mining Bitcoin before anybody had ever heard of it. He managed to stockpile 7,500 of the magic cryptocurrency before his girlfriend made him stop. (Evidently, she thought it "was getting too noisy.") Based on today's exchange rate of about $1,000 per Bitcoin, that stash is worth $7.5 million.

　　Then, earlier this year, Howells did a really stupid thing and threw away the hard drive that contained the key he needed to access the small fortune he'd saved up. Actually, he did two stupid things. First, he spilled lemonade on his mining machine and sold it for scrap, which is why he took the hard drive out in the first place. Then he threw it in the trash. His $7.5 million now rests under about four feet of mud and trash at the local landfill.

　　For all intents and purposes, the money is gone. Howells can't afford to spend the money it would take to mobilize a team to dig through the landfill, and, even if he did, he probably wouldn't find the hard drive anyway. "I'm at the point where it's either laugh about it or cry about it," Howells told The Guardian. "Why aren't I out there with a shovel now? I think I'm just resigned to never being able to find it."