Decluttering a work space is an annual rite of passage that in most cases, is not an act that one will regret for the rest of their life. However, for James Howells, a Welsh man living in the city of Newport, this accidental decision to get rid of a hard drive in 2013 has haunted him for close to a decade. It’s not the hard drive, necessarily, that Howell misses; it’s the the code allowing access to a crypto wallet that contains $184 million worth of bitcoin.
As reported by the BBC, the U.K. resident has now devised a multi-step plan to recover the hard drive, which is lost within a sea of compacted trash inside a landfill owned and operated by the Newport city council. A core part of the plan involves donating 10 percent of the recovered funds towards the creation of a community crypto hub, among other initiatives.
