8,000 Bitcoins thrown into the trash? This man spent 12 years chasing a $550 million fortune buried beneath a landfill World News
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March 22, 2026
In 2013, James Howells, an IT technician from Newport, Wales, accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin private keys. At the time, the cryptocurrency was worth approximately $8 million. Over the next decade, the value of Bitcoin…