🗣️ James Howells – IT engineer – officially abandons the journey to recover the hard drive containing 8,000 BTC (nearly 950 million USD) after 10 years digging in a landfill in Newport.
📉 In 2013, he accidentally threw away the hard drive containing all the mined Bitcoin. For a decade, he continuously sought permission to excavate, even proposing to use AI, drones, and robots to find it.
🌍 The story has become an urban legend in the crypto world – a costly lesson in negligence.
🔐 Lost digital assets are lost forever. Poor management = Paying a high price.