British man gives up on trying to recover hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins lost in landfill 12 years ago
2025-08-05 00:41
According to Cointelegraph, James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, UK, has given up his 12-year search and failed to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins (now worth about $920 million) that he believed was buried in a municipal landfill in south Wales.
