James Howell, a British IT worker, made headlines in 2013 when he accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins. At the time, the value of these Bitcoins was negligible, but as the cryptocurrency market surged, their worth skyrocketed to over $600 million. Howell has been trying to recover the hard drive from a landfill in Newport, Wales, but his efforts have been met with resistance from the local council.