🪙 UPDATE: James Howells Takes a New Turn in His Quest for 8,000 Lost $BTC (~$900M)
After years of failed efforts to excavate a landfill in search of his lost hard drive, James Howells is now pivoting to a digital first recovery plan.
He plans to tokenize his legal claim to the 8,000 $BTC via a smart contract on Bitcoin, allowing on chain ownership of the rightseven though he still doesn’t have access to the actual coins.
This means:
No private keys or recovery yet
Just legal claim ownership, now mirrored on chain
A novel case of tokenizing potential value
If successful, this could open up a new precedent for lost asset claims, ownership rights, and legal tokenization on Bitcoin.
Would you invest in a token backed only by legal hope? 🤔
