Crypto PM
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Bullish
$950M in the trash — for real.
After 12 years, James Howells — the guy who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC back in 2013 — has officially ended his search.
He spent over a decade trying to recover it from a landfill in Wales. Teams, legal battles, robots, funding... all of it. And now, he’s done.
8000 Bitcoin.
Worth around $950 million today.
Gone.
Sometimes the wildest crypto story isn’t about a rugpull or a moonshot — it’s about a mistake that never got undone.
What would you do if you lost that kind of bag?
After 12 years, James Howells — the guy who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC back in 2013 — has officially ended his search.
He spent over a decade trying to recover it from a landfill in Wales. Teams, legal battles, robots, funding... all of it. And now, he’s done.
8000 Bitcoin.
Worth around $950 million today.
Gone.
Sometimes the wildest crypto story isn’t about a rugpull or a moonshot — it’s about a mistake that never got undone.
What would you do if you lost that kind of bag?
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