For 12 years, he’s been searching for his hard drive containing 649 million dollars worth of Bitcoin in a landfill.

In 2013, Welsh computer scientist James Howells lost a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins, now valued at nearly €649 million. After twelve years of relentless searching, legal battles and technological projects, he had to give up on finding his treasure. But a new page has been turned: his incredible journey…


tl;dr: still not allowed to try to dig it up; unknown chance of dat even being readable after 12 years in a dump. now it will be documented in a film.

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