The computer engineer from Wales, James Howells, has officially decided to abandon the search for a hard drive that contained the private keys of 8,000 #Bitcoin , equivalent today to about US$950 million. The device was accidentally discarded by his girlfriend in 2013, when its value was around US$63 million. Instead of buying the site to recover it, he has now launched his own cryptocurrency, Ceiniog Coin, to try to recover some of his money.