Remember this guy? His name is James Howells 🇬🇧, a British man who became famous due to an unexpected incident that happened in 2013 📅. That year, he accidentally threw a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins 💻 into the trash 🗑️. In an interview with the BBC 📺, he mentioned that the price of one Bitcoin at that time was $ 170 💵.
Today, the value of those 8,000 Bitcoins that were discarded is estimated at around $800 million 💰
Howells stated that he had started mining Bitcoin since 2009 ⛏️ using his computer 🖥️, and in mid-2013, after cleaning his house 🏠, he got rid of the hard drive that contained the Bitcoin without realizing its future value 🔒.
Since that incident, Howells has been searching the landfill in an attempt to retrieve the disk ⛏️, offering a reward of up to 25% of the value of the recovered Bitcoin 🎁, but he has been unable to obtain approval from local authorities to carry out the digging ⚖️.
