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A man has shared his pain after unknowingly unconsciously tossing out a Bitcoin hard drive seven years ago. The hard drive is now worth $6 million. Campbell Simpson, supervisor of tech site Gizmodo Australia, says he passed up a major opportunity for amazing wealth since he ejected a piece hard drive containing 1400 bitcoins. Seven years later, the Bitcoin market soared and Mr. Simpson’s apparently unimportant web money, which he purchased for $25, is currently worth $6 million dollars.

Bitcoin, which is online cash connected to a client’s digital wallet, is payment used to trade on the web and is acknowledged by numerous organizations. In 2010 Mr. Simpson’s 1400 Bitcoins were just worth around $25, however now, one Bitcoin is worth over $4,000.

‘I didn’t need or think about, anything on it. So I discarded it,’ he said.

At the point when usage utilization on the web began to explode, Mr. Simpson consistently - but bitterly - checked how much his 1400 was worth. After understanding his Bitcoin accumulation would have been worth $4000 a couple months later, Mr. Simpson was marginally irritated.

In any case, this month Bitcoin achieved a noteworthy high value, making his once-measly hard drive of worthless crypto a $6 million gold mine.

‘This is presumably a ridiculous thing, looking back, that I’ve at any point done. Also, I’ve done a considerable amount of idiotic things a ton of times,’ Mr. Simpson said.

The tech author says he has been offered advice on the best way to potentially recover the long-gone hard drive, however, he concedes he won’t try attempting to discover it. ‘I don’t even want to discover those Bitcoin, though. I’m truly content with my life right now. I needn’t bother with them,’ he wrote. ‘I’m for the most part really nice in life, I think, and I can giggle about it for like 95% of the time.’

Despite admitting he is not in desperate need of the hard drive, Mr. Simpson bemoaned the type of lifestyle he could live if he had $6 million - and says he could have even purchased a house in Sydney, ‘I could have purchased a house. In Sydney. At Sydney costs. I could have traveled the world or purchased a goddamn yacht or something,’ he added.

Here is a string of tweets he posted earlier this year:

Seems pretty pissed to me! What do you think of this unfortunate event? Let me know in the comment section below.

Story and image credits: Daily Mail