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A girlfriend of the British man accidentally threw away his hard disk with roughly 8,000 bitcoins on it in 2013. The years of legal battle for the right to retrieve the disk from the waste dump resulted in nothing. These and four other stories remind us to treat our crypto assets with caution. How not to dump bitcoins: James Howells case The story about the Wales IT worker whose hard disk with thousands of bitcoins got to the landfill was circulating in the media for years. All this time, he was vainly trying to gain access to the waste dump where his treasures are lying at peace, and it seems that on January 9, 2025, the case concluded in a dismal finale.  James Howells, a Newport local, learned about Bitcoin around 2009 and tried mining for a while before totally forgetting about cryptocurrency for several years. At some point, he spilled liquids on his computer, so he dismantled it, saving his hard disk, though. The disk allegedly contains a private key to Howells’ Bitcoin wallet. In 2013, his then-girlfriend, Halfina Eddy-Evans, accidentally tossed a hard drive away.  Here’s what Eddy-Evans told Daily Mail in an exclusive interview: “The computer part had been disposed of in a black sack along with other unwanted belongings, and he begged me to take it away, saying, ‘There’s a bag of rubbish here to be taken to the tip.’ I had no idea what was in it but I reluctantly dropped it off at the local tip on the way home from going on the school run… I thought he should be running his errands, not me, but I did it to help out… Losing it was not my fault.” After a while, Howells realized that the about 8,000 BTC he had mined in the…

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Filed under: News - @ January 12, 2025 7:09 pm