In 2013, James Howells from Wales accidentally threw away a hard drive that contained the private key to a wallet with 8,000 BTC — worth a few thousand dollars at the time, but today it’s worth hundreds of millions. The disk ended up in a municipal landfill. Since then, he has repeatedly attempted to organize excavations, offering millions of dollars to the city and investors, even involving a robot dog from Boston Dynamics. However, the authorities have declined due to environmental risks. This story is still ongoing, and the potential treasure lies somewhere among tons of waste.
