In 2013, IT engineer James Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 Bitcoins. At the time, the mistake seemed recoverable. Years later, as Bitcoin’s value exploded, that single discarded drive turned into one of the most expensive mistakes in modern financial history worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The hard drive is believed to remain buried beneath thousands of tons of waste inside a landfill in Newport. For more than twelve years, Howells fought for permission to se
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In 2013, IT engineer James Howells accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 Bitcoins. At the time, the mistake seemed recoverable. Years later, as Bitcoin’s value exploded, that single discarded drive turned into one of the most expensive mistakes in modern financial history worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The hard drive is believed to remain buried beneath thousands of tons of waste inside a landfill in Newport. For more than twelve years, Howells fought for permission to se
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