#humanity
After 12 years, James Howells — the guy who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC in 2013 — has officially ended his search.
He spent more than a decade trying to recover it from a landfill in Wales. Teams, legal battles, robots, funding... all that. And now, it is over.
8000 Bitcoin.
Worth about $950 million today.
Lost.
Sometimes, the wildest cryptocurrency story is not about fraud or a moonshot — it's about a mistake that was never corrected.
What would you do if you lost that kind of bag?
After 12 years, James Howells — the guy who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC in 2013 — has officially ended his search.
He spent more than a decade trying to recover it from a landfill in Wales. Teams, legal battles, robots, funding... all that. And now, it is over.
8000 Bitcoin.
Worth about $950 million today.
Lost.
Sometimes, the wildest cryptocurrency story is not about fraud or a moonshot — it's about a mistake that was never corrected.
What would you do if you lost that kind of bag?
