The Man Who Threw Away $900 Million and Spent 12 Years Trying to Dig It Back Up

AI Summary James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales, mined 8,000 Bitcoin in the early days and lost the keys in 2013 when an encrypted hard drive was mistakenly thrown away and sent to the Docksway landfill. After the High Court in Cardiff dismissed his claim in January 2025 and an appeal was refused in March […] fulltext: 318 chars | fulltext source: rss-fallback | summary method: extractive Original: https://news.bitcoin.com/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up-49201/ Source: Bitcoin.com News