A discarded hard drive, believed to contain the passkey to 8,000 Bitcoins—valued at over £627 million (approximately $785 million) today—lies buried beneath a Newport landfill. The hard drive, belonging to James Howells, was inadvertently thrown away nearly a decade ago by his ex-girlfriend, Halfina Eddy-Evans, who acted on his request to dispose of unwanted items. Now, as Howells battles to retrieve the device from a 1.4-million-metric-ton landfill, the story has reignited public interest in one of the most infamous cryptocurrency losses.
