A discarded hard drive, a billion-dollar Bitcoin wallet, and a trash-strewn landfill in Wales are now the foundation for a high-stakes docuseries.
Entertainment company LEBUL announced this week that it has acquired exclusive rights to the story of James Howells, the British engineer who famously lost access to 8,000 Bitcoin Bitcoin
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Dubbed ‘The Buried Bitcoin: The Real-Life Treasure Hunt of James Howells,’ the multi-platform project will span a premium docuseries, a podcast, and a social-first storytelling campaign.
It aims to dramatize Howells’ decade-long quest to recover the drive—now estimated to be worth more than $800 million, from a municipal dump in Newport, Wales.
“This isn’t just content,” said Reese Van Allen, President of Unscripted Entertainment at LEBUL. “It’s a live-action tech thriller with nearly a billion dollars on the line.”