The Man Who Lost 8,000 Bitcoin
Has a New Plan James Howells, the man who accidentally threw away a hard drive with 8,000 Bitcoin back in 2013, is not giving up. After years of trying — and failing — to convince his local council to let him dig through a landfill, he’s changing tactics.
Howells plans to tokenize his claim to the lost BTC, creating 800 billion Ceiniog Coin (INI) on Bitcoin Layer 2. The tokens will be integrated with other blockchain tech like Stacks, Runes, and Ordinals.
At Bitcoin’s all-time high of $123,091, that hard drive would be worth nearly $985 million. Even at today’s price of $114,168, it’s still worth over $913 million.
It’s one of the longest-running sagas in crypto, and now it’s taking a DeFi twist.
