🚨 8,000 $BTC in the Trash? Not Giving Up Yet! 💼🗑️
James Howells—the UK man who accidentally dumped a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin back in 2013—isn’t quitting, despite what the headlines say.
💰 At today’s BTC price of $114,231, that’s a jaw-dropping $915 MILLION sitting in a Newport landfill! 😳
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🔁 Pivot, Not Pause 🔁
Howells offered $33M–$40M to buy and excavate the landfill but got ghosted by the city council. So now?
He’s tokenizing his legal ownership instead. 🪙
➡️ Launching a new Bitcoin Layer 2 token: Ceiniog Coin (INI)
➡️ Backed by the 8,000 BTC he still legally owns
➡️ ICO coming later this year
➡️ Built for fast, scalable Web3 payments
➡️ Riding Bitcoin’s upcoming opcode upgrade
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🧠 “They may own the hardware,” he says, “but the BTC inside is mine—and verifiable by anyone on-chain.”
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Moral of the story?
Never underestimate a man with 8,000 BTC on the line and a plan to Web3 it all back. 🔥
