Bitcoin landfill – DIGIT INFO

Ex-partner tosses $716M Bitcoin wallet, says ‘tired of hearing about it’

DIGIT — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:05:28 +0000

James Howells’ $716 million Bitcoin fortune in a landfill has sparked legal battles, and his ex-partner now claims she followed his instructions to discard the hard drive.

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Man Who Accidentally Threw Away 7,500 Bitcoins on Hard Drive Has New Plan to Retrieve His BTC

DIGIT — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 13:30:02 +0000

The British man who accidentally threw away a computer with 7,500 bitcoins on its hard drive has come up with a new plan to retrieve his lost coins from the city landfill. “We estimate there are between 300,000 – 400,000 tons of waste to look through,” he said. Man on Mission to Retrieve 7,500 Lost […]

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The Man Who Lost 7,500 BTC to a Landfill, and the Council That Won’t Let Him Go Digging

DIGIT — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:00:51 +0000

Imagine that you had over US$100 million worth of Bitcoin rotting away in a landfill and there was nothing you could do about it. Welcome to the world of James Howells, a Welsh IT worker who threw away a hard drive containing Bitcoin he’d mined back in 2009. The Newport South Wales City Council has repeatedly denied his requests to commence digging operations in the trash heap for his treasure trove of digital gold. One Man’s Treasure Is Literally Trash “You know when you put something in the bin, and in your head, say to yourself ‘that’s a bad idea’?” James Howells rhetorically

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