Bitcoin Facts

A man from Newport, UK, accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013. Now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, he has spent over a decade trying to get permission to excavate the landfill where it's buried.

There's a bot called the 'Random Darknet Shopper' that was given $100 in Bitcoin each week to purchase random items from darknet markets. Among its purchases were 10 ecstasy pills, which led Swiss police to seize the artwork—though the case was later dropped and the items returned.