Halfina Eddy-Evans, the ex-girlfriend of James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales, recently revealed that in 2013 she discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC at Howells' request. Eddy-Evans explained her role in the incident, saying, "He asked me to throw away unwanted items, including the hard drive. It wasn't my fault to discard it." The hard drive was thrown away when the price of BTC was less than $1, and now those BTC are worth over $716 million. (Daily Mail) Previously, James Howells accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 8000 bitcoins and is suing the Newport City Council for £495 million (approximately $647 million) in damages. Howells has made multiple attempts to recover the hard drive from the local landfill but has been blocked by the council, which has repeatedly denied his requests to excavate the site. In 2013, he mistakenly threw away the hard drive containing the bitcoins during a household cleanup, and now those bitcoins are worth nearly £500 million.

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