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The $600 Million Hard Drive: What Became of the Man Behind Crypto’s Most Painful Loss?

Blocknomi Published 02.06.2026 08:20

Key Points In 2009, IT engineer James Howells mined 8,000 Bitcoin, only to discard the hard drive containing them in 2013 The discarded drive sits in a Newport, Wales dump…

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