After 12 years, a British man has stopped looking for a hard drive with 8 thousand BTC, which he accidentally threw away

News Crypto 08-04-2025 comment
That’s it. James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, ended a 12-year search for a hard drive with 8,000 bitcoins that ended up in a landfill in 2013. At that time, the contents of the hard drive were estimated at $600 thousand, but the value of bitcoin was growing every year. Now, 8 thousand bitcoins are worth about $915 million.

Real-life satire: One Man's Trash game about a man who threw 7,500 bitcoins into the trash is out

News Crypto 07-29-2025 comment
The story of an IT specialist who accidentally threw away a hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins was turned into a satirical video game called One Man’s Trash.

7500 bitcoins in a landfill: the city eliminates the dump, the owner of the HDD with the wallet wants to buy it back

News Crypto 02-11-2025 comment
If you thought that the story of 7,500 bitcoins in a landfill was over, it’s not. Now, the city of Newport in Wales wants to build a solar power plant there, and the owner of HDD — wants to buy the landfill.

7500 bitcoins to remain in landfill — court denies owner of $700 million HDD search

News Crypto 01-13-2025 comment
It seems that the long saga of the HDD with 7500 bitcoins is coming to an end. The court denied the owner of the $700 million drive permission to search a landfill in Wales.

The owner of a discarded HDD with 7,500 bitcoins is suing the authorities — permission to dig through the landfill or money

News Crypto 10-17-2024 comment
A man who accidentally threw away a hard disk with 7,500 bitcoins in 2013 is not giving up. He has filed a lawsuit against the city authorities — they won’t let him turn over the landfill in search of the HDD.

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