女人意外地垃圾桶300萬英鎊的比特幣財富在“有史以來最糟糕的錯誤”中

埃莉·哈特（Ellie Hart）在春季清潔時拋出了USB閃存驅動器

A couple are struggling to move on with their lives after accidentally binning their £3million Bitcoin fortune.

一對夫婦意外地籌集了300萬英鎊的比特幣財富，努力繼續生活。

Ellie Hart tossed out a USB flash drive while spring cleaning - without realising the device was where partner Tom kept his crypto currency.

埃莉·哈特（Ellie Hart）在春季清潔時拋出了USB閃存驅動器 - 沒有意識到該設備是湯姆（Tom）保留他的加密貨幣的地方。

The primary school teacher, 34, said: “It was just sitting in a drawer with old receipts, dead batteries and tangled wires. I assumed it was one of my school memory sticks and threw it out without thinking.”

34歲的小學老師說：“它只是坐在一個帶有舊收據，死電池和糾結的電線的抽屜裡。我以為這是我的學校記憶棒之一，不思考就把它扔掉了。”

Days later, Tom, 36, couldn’t find the flash drive, so the website developer quizzed Ellie about where it had gone.

幾天后，現年36歲的湯姆（Tom）找不到閃存驅動器，因此網站開發人員對艾莉（Ellie）的去向詢問。

She said: “He asked if I’d seen a little black USB stick he uses for his Bitcoin. I froze. I knew instantly. My heart just sank. I told him: ‘I think I threw it away.’ I felt absolutely sick.”

她說：“他問我是否看過他用來比特幣的黑色USB棍子。我凍結了。我立刻知道。我的心只是沉沒了。我告訴他：'我想我把它扔掉了。'我感到絕對噁心。”

Ellie added: “We even emptied rubbish bags and tore open bin liners. There was this horrible mix of panic and hope, but deep down, I knew it was already too late.”

艾莉補充說：“我們甚至清空了垃圾袋，撕開了敞開的垃圾襯裡。這種可怕的恐慌和希望，但內心深處，我知道這已經太晚了。”

She described the blunder as “the worst mistake I’ve ever made”.

她將這一錯誤描述為“我有史以來最嚴重的錯誤”。

Savvy Tom bought the Bitcoin in 2013, when the currency was worth considerably less, explained the couple from Market Harborough, Leics.

湯姆（Tom）在2013年購買了比特幣，當時貨幣的價值降低了，這對萊斯市場（Market Harborough）的夫妻解釋說。

Tom explained that over the years, his ‘e-wallet’ stored on the USB stick was now worth more than £3m, but without the device, the funds are inaccessible.

湯姆（Tom）解釋說，多年來，他存儲在USB棒上的“電子屋”現在價值超過300萬英鎊，但沒有設備，資金就無法獲得。

Speaking to Play Casino Online with Playcasino.com! Review Site 2025, Ellie said: “Tom has been amazing. He hasn’t shouted, he hasn’t blamed me, but the silence says it all. That money would have been our future - a house, a holiday, everything - and I threw it out with a handful of junk mail.

與Playcasino.com在線玩賭場！評論網站2025年，埃莉說：“湯姆很棒。他沒有大喊，他沒有責怪我，但沉默說了一切。錢將是我們的未來 - 一所房子，一個假期，一切 - 我用少數垃圾郵件扔掉了它。

“It’s hard to move past something like this.

“很難經過這樣的事情。

“You replay it constantly, the moment you picked it up, the second it landed in the bin. I’d do anything to undo it. I never thought something so valuable could look so ordinary.

“您不斷地重播它，當您撿起它的那一刻，第二個降落在垃圾箱中。我會做任何事情來撤消它。我從來沒有想過如此寶貴的東西看起來如此普通。

“If anyone out there is keeping money, or anything important, on a USB stick, please label it, lock it away, don't make the same mistake I did.”

“如果有人在USB棒上有錢或重要的東西，請標記它，將其鎖定，不要犯同樣的錯誤。”

A spokeswoman for Play Casino, which reports on digital trends and crypto currency culture, said: “It’s a heartbreaking reminder that digital fortunes can be lost in an instant.

一位有關數字趨勢和加密貨幣文化的報導的Play Casino的女發言人說：“這令人心碎的提醒，數字命運可能會立即丟失。

“USB sticks, hard drives or devices storing crypto currency should be clearly labelled, securely stored and never left loose in a drawer.”

“應清楚地標記，牢固地存儲並且永遠不會在抽屜裡放鬆，將存儲加密貨幣的USB棒，硬盤驅動器或設備應被清楚地標記。”

Experts recommend that Bitcoin owners store their currency in offline wallets, known as ‘cold storage’, with the added bonus that they cannot be accessed by thieves via the internet.

專家建議比特幣所有者將其貨幣存儲在離線錢包中，稱為“冷存儲”，並增加了盜賊通過互聯網無法訪問的獎金。

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