🔥 "The Forgotten Bitcoin Hard Drive: A $500 Million Mistake" 🔥



In 2013, James Howells, a British IT engineer living in Newport, Wales, made a mistake so costly that it would haunt him for the rest of his life.

Back in 2009, when Bitcoin was still a niche experiment known only to a handful of tech enthusiasts, James was one of the early adopters. He mined about 8,000 bitcoins on his laptop — a task that was easy at the time because mining didn’t require specialized hardware. But after mining for a while, he stopped. His girlfriend complained that the laptop’s fan was constantly running and noisy. He dismantled the laptop and stored the hard drive containing the private keys in a drawer as a sort of digital souvenir.

Fast forward four years to 2013, during a routine house cleaning spree, James mistakenly threw away the wrong hard drive. He had two — one working, one broken — and in his haste, he discarded the drive with the Bitcoin wallet on it.

A few months later, while browsing Bitcoin news, James noticed the cryptocurrency’s value had skyrocketed. Curious, he did some quick math. 8,000 bitcoins were now worth over $6.5 million. In a moment of shock, the memory hit him: he had thrown out the hard drive.

The realization was devastating. He quickly traced the trash’s destination: the local landfill in Newport. But by then, weeks had passed, and his trash had been buried under layers of waste — on a site the size of a soccer field, up to five meters deep.

James contacted the city council and requested permission to dig. He offer...


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