You Can Become a Billionaire by Exploiting This Man | Tales From the Bottle
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“In 2013, Welsh computer engineer James Howells mistakenly disposed of a laptop hard drive containing the private key for 8,000 Bitcoin in the Docksway landfill in Newport, Wales. Howells subsequently assembled a team of specialists and secured funding to excavate the site, but Newport City Council refused permission, citing the cost and environmental impact of the search. If the coins are discovered, Howells proposes distributing 30% of the proceedings among the council and the population of Newport.
As of February 2025, the missing Bitcoin was worth £597 million (US$751 million). In December 2024, Howells sued the council for £495 million, with the council contesting that the device is now its property. The attempted recovery of the missing Bitcoin has been likened to a digital treasure hunt. Howells and his team are confident that retrieval of the data remains possible, while the council continues to profess its scepticism. Following a hearing, the High Court dismissed Howells’ claim in January 2025, ruling that it had no prospect of success.”
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@jean-lucpicard5510
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
Having a highly skilled job. But Just leaving a valuable drive with bitcoin on, laying around the house unlabelled does seem like a really dumb thing. Put it in a anti static bag inside a drawer.
@JohnPaulUser
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
imagine if it's just in his closet.
@matthew9677
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
Wonder if he ever offered to buy the landfill?
@fr89k
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
I say these are old people in the council and they don't believe some data can be worth this much. Of course this is kinda unbelievable but the facts are that Bitcoins have value on the market. They just refuse to accept that, because it doesn't fit their world view which probably stopped developing around the 1960s or 1970s.
@toblogan
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
That's a really good drawing of me. Truly spot on! 🤪🤣😂
@bonytolstad9514
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
A judge over-reaching their expertise, heaven no, surely not!?
@kef103
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
What if it was already found?
@novaguardian289
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
If this is a properly manned and managed landfill, that hard drive is destroyed
@Steven-l4v
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
If he is paying the cost and there is no pollution then the council should just let him.
@fortooney
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
why not raise money to buy the landfill?
also don't they burn waste after a certain time?
@MaxMinstats
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
Satoshi is Adam Back
@LurkerDood
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
F******************************!!!!!!!!!! Wish I knew about Bitcoin when it was a few cents!! I could've been mining that 💩 at home!!! Then forgot about it for 10 years then I see I have like 2000 Bitcoins on a old hard drive!!! 🙄 🤦♂
@Thermalburn
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
I had a drive with 5 bitcoin I acquired around 2014. I ended up losing that drive when I moved in 2016. Oh well…
@xdman2956
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
I would consider an inspection, this is sus
@xdman2956
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
9:47 doesn't compute
@AntlerDesim
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
I’d love to meet you one day in person. You’ve been a constant in an everchanging reality.
@DigitalNeb
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
What an unbelievable idiot.
@deanneuburger3869
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
Thinking this story is nonsense. Engineers keep crap like this, always a possible use in the future if not always good to have backups and the more the merrier.
@Poorexampeofhuman
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
I tell you what if somebody wanted to give me a couple million dollars to dig through the trash and make sure everything was put back the way it was found that I let him dig through the trash. So long as it wasn't bringing the public into some sort of danger my guess is they found us hard drive they stole his money which is a conspiracy theory hey why else would they deny a man his own garbage
@Poorexampeofhuman
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
Yeah the jurisdiction probably found it broke the encryption and stole his money that would be the reasonable explanation as to why they wouldn't let him search for his own trash. And when you have a unqualified individual making judgments on something they have no knowledge of or about seems to be quite a bit crooked and typical of modern British and American government
@TrafficPartyHatsPregnancyTests
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
So, the lesson is to LABEL YOUR SHIT
@mromatic17
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
If I lived there I would get a job there and help him find it as long as he split it with me. I bet he could bribe the normal lower level workers and middle management to help him find it. Hell I’d be surprised if the workers haven’t already found it and cashed in on it!
@mustafaatalay212
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
4:14 😅😅😅
@creepyname
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
He gave up searching
like 2 weeks ago.
@haphappablap7684
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
1. Buy land next to the dump, 2. Tunnel under the dump, 3. Transport waste via tunnel and sort it.
@railgapesoterica5777
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
I was once given a bunch of Dogecoin. If only I had held onto them (I lost the wallet) they would now be worth twelve dollars. I do wish I'd bought BTC when it was cheap. Oh well, so does everyone else.
@randylahey5463
August 19, 2026 at 9:17 am
it's gone
I've worked in the waste industry
unless that hard drive is made of steel it's gone
invest in gold… just kidding… kinda