The hard disks have either been picked up by scavengers and sold as scrap for steelmaking, or buried in a garbage dump for more than 10 years and are probably rusted and corroded. Even if they are found, they are useless. This is equivalent to directly announcing to the world: 8,000 BTC have been destroyed! BTC has been upgraded to a deflationary coin, which is good news!

The story of Bitcoin is always full of legends, and this time, the protagonist of the story is a British man named James Howells. He accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins 11 years ago, and recently filed a lawsuit against his city government, claiming about 495 million pounds (about 4.57 billion yuan). This case has attracted widespread attention and triggered discussions on digital asset management and legal responsibilities.
The incident dates back to 2013, when James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, England, mistakenly discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins as garbage. At the time, these bitcoins were worth less than 1 million pounds. However, with the soaring price of bitcoin, the current value of 8,000 bitcoins has exceeded 500 million pounds (about 4.62 billion yuan), which makes James' loss particularly huge.