The British man who threw out the hard drive with bitcoins stopped searching

Briton James Howells has stopped searching for a bitcoin hard drive that was accidentally dumped in a landfill. This was announced on August 3 by the Crypto Rover portal.

"James Howells has finally stopped searching for the hard drive that he accidentally threw away in 2013," reads a message on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

According to the portal, 8 thousand bitcoins worth $950 million were stored on the hard disk.

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On November 22, 2024, it was reported that Howells had been searching for more than 500 million pounds worth of Bitcoin (BTC) in a landfill for 11 years. The man claimed that he mistakenly threw away a hard drive with cryptocurrency more than 10 years ago and now the device is in a landfill in Newport.

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