{"id":42283,"date":"2025-09-20T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42283"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:33:38","slug":"for-12-years-hes-been-searching-for-his-hard-drive-containing-649-million-dollars-worth-of-bitcoin-in-a-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42283","title":{"rendered":"For 12 years, he\u2019s been searching for his hard drive containing 649 million dollars worth of Bitcoin in a landfill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6651zez50egt-1024x602-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"173\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">In 2013, Welsh computer scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/farmingdale-observer.com\/2025\/06\/10\/for-12-years-hes-been-searching-for-his-hard-drive-containing-649-million-dollars-worth-of-bitcoin-in-a-landfill-today-his-story-is-about-to-take-a-new-turn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Howells lost a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins<\/a>, now valued at nearly \u20ac649 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\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, Welsh computer scientist James Howells lost a hard drive containing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[476,1310,2156],"class_list":["post-42283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-oof","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42287,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283\/revisions\/42287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}