Real-life One Piece?! $BTC
750 million Bitcoin hard drive buried in a landfill, owner begs for 12 years to give up!
Breaking news! The hard drive terminator announces abandonment!
After chasing for a full 12 years, the British man who accidentally threw away 7,500 Bitcoins as trash—James Howells—finally admits defeat.
This incident dates back to 2013. This former IT guy from Wales, while cleaning up, accidentally tossed the magical hard drive containing Bitcoin into the trash. Now this precious item is buried in a large landfill in Newport, becoming one of the most famous and expensive “lost items” in the cryptocurrency world. Just imagine, those 7,500 Bitcoins today would be worth nearly $750 million!
To recover this “priceless hard drive,” he really had a lot of struggles over the past 12 years:
He spent money designing several multi-million dollar excavation plans, just wanting to dig up the landfill;
He tried to bribe the local government, promising to share a portion with them if he found the Bitcoin;
He even brought in AI, drones, and engineering teams, using all kinds of high-tech methods!
Unfortunately, local authorities categorically refused his excavation requests. Year after year of rejections, without obtaining permission, Howells is now completely disheartened and decides to give up.
As for that $750 million? It's basically equivalent to permanently disappearing, rotting in the landfill.
