US EditionNewport Man Who Accidentally Threw Away £700m Hard Drive Shares Update
- James Howells threw away an encrypted hard drive containing the private key to 8,000 Bitcoins in August 2013, estimated to be worth nearly £700 million now due to rising Bitcoin prices.
- Newport City Council has denied Howells permission to dig for the hard drive, estimating it lies beneath 25,000 cubic meters of waste and announcing plans to close the landfill site.
- Howells has pledged to donate 10% of any recovered assets, potentially reaching about £105 million, to local charities if he retrieves the hard drive with the council's cooperation.
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Man who accidentally binned hard drive containing £700m delivers update 13 years later - The Mirror
Halfina Eddy-Evans was asked to take one of her boyfriend's old, unwanted hard drives to a council tip having no idea it contained 8,000 bitcoins – but it is now worth millions
James Howells, a software engineer from Wales, spent more than 12 years trying to recover his hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins, currently worth around $900 million, which was accidentally dumped in a landfill in 2013...
James Howells, who threw away a hard drive with 8,000 BTC in 2013, gives up the search. Instead, he brings a bitcoin L2 token to the market.
Man Who Accidentally Binned £740M In Bitcoin Finally Gives Up Search After 12 Years
IT worker James Howells, 36, began mining Bitcoin back in 2009 when it was basically worthless, and had stored 8,000 units on his PC by the time it was accidentally binned in 2013. In the years since, the price of Bitcoin has seen extreme highs and extreme lows, with James’s Bitcoin now worth around £740,000,000 […] The post Man Who Accidentally Binned £740M In Bitcoin Finally Gives Up Search After 12 Years appeared first on Sick Chirpse.
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