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News - Ex throws away $716 million Bitcoin wallet
8,000 Bitcoin, with a current value of $716 million: that's what James Howells lost in 2013. Since then, he has been desperately searching for the hard drive.
Now his ex is opening up about the missing BTC. She was the one who threw away the hard drive. For 11 years, James Howells has been desperately searching for his Bitcoin wallet, which contains $716 million. Now there are new developments.
According to his ex-girlfriend, she discarded the hard drive containing the wallet at his own request at the time. This she told the Daily Mail. She added that she hopes he finds the hard drive so he will finally shut up.
In the early days of Bitcoin, it was so inexpensive to mine that several people used their computers to do so.
— Edge 🆓 (@EdgeWallet) November 21, 2024
James Howells, a British engineer, successfully mined 8000 bitcoins and stored them on a hard drive.
In August 2013, he accidentally disposed of the hard drive. pic.twitter.com/JPwhasD9Bs
James Howells has been trying to recover his approximately 8,000 Bitcoin since 2013. They are on a hard drive located at a landfill in Wales. So far, he has not been allowed to enter the site.
Recently, he even found investors willing to support him financially in his quest. You can read his legendary story here: The man who wants to find 8,000 Bitcoin in the trash.
A total of 21 million Bitcoin exist, but about 1.42 million of them have already been lost forever, according to an analysis firm.
Currently, Bitcoin stands at nearly $100,000, with a total market capitalization of nearly $1.9 billion.
