Imagine losing nearly a billion dollars—not to a scam, not in a hack, but from simply throwing away the wrong hard drive.
That’s exactly what happened to James Howells, the guy who mistakenly tossed out a hard drive in 2013 with 8,000 BTC on it. After 12 years of battling city councils, raising funds, hiring experts, and even considering AI-powered robots to scan landfills in Wales—he's finally called it quit.
No recovery. No happy ending.
Just $950 million worth of Bitcoin… forever lost beneath piles of trash.
It’s one of the craziest stories in crypto history. Not a rug pull, not a hack—just a tragic accident that could never be undone.
Makes you wonder:
What would you do if you lost that kind of fortune?
Would you spend a decade trying to fix it—or would you let it go?
Because sometimes, in crypto, the biggest risks aren’t online... they’re in the trash.