People who accidentally threw away six hundred million dollars 😳

People who accidentally threw away six hundred million dollars 😳 James Howells 😳 this is James Howells and in 2009 he mined 8,000 bitcoin on an ordinary laptop back when the coins were almost worthless when the laptop stopped working James removed its hard drive and placed it safely inside a drawer James removed its hard drive and placed it safely inside a drawer the computer was gone but that tiny drive still contained the private key to his entire fortune four years later during an office cleanout James accidentally placed the drive inside a black garbage bag his partner took the bag to the local dump believing it contained nothing but rubbish neither of them realized what had just disappeared then bitcoin's price began climbing James searched for the drive found the drawer empty and suddenly understood where it had gone found the drawer empty and suddenly understood where it had gone he contacted Newport's landfill but the garbage had already been buried beneath thousands of tons of waste James offered to pay for the entire excavation himself he assembled engineers AI equipment and robotic dogs and even promised the city a share of the fortune the council still refused warning that digging could release dangerous waste for 12 years every rise in Bitcoin made the same mistake more expensive then a court blocked his search and the landfill was scheduled to be permanently sealed but here's the cruelest part the Bitcoin never disappeared James can still see his fortune sitting on the blockchain he just can't touch a single dollar of it