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A man in the UK has given up on retrieving a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC from a landfill

2025-08-05 08:26:39

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, IT engineer James Howells from Newport, UK, has ended a 12-year search, failing to recover the hard drive he believes contains 8,000 bitcoins (currently worth about $920 million) buried in a municipal landfill in South Wales.

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