A British IT worker has launched a frantic search of a landfill site after realising he accidentally threw away a computer drive holding $7.5 million (5.5 million euros) in the online currency Bitcoin.James Howells, 28, obtained 7,500 Bitcoins in 2009 when the currency was virtually worthless. Its value has since soared, with a single Bitcoin hitting $1,000 for the first time on Tuesday.Howells left the hard drive in a drawer for several years, and threw it away earlier this year without a second thought.To his horror, he then realised what it had contained -- and that he would be a millionaire, if he could only find it.He now faces the prospect of a painstaking hunt through a massive landfill site in his home city of Newport, Wales, he told BBC television on Thursday."When I went to the tip the manager took me up to the current landfill site and when I saw it -- it's about the size of a football field -- my first thought was 'no chance'," he said."The man
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