A hard drive with the keys to 8,000 BTC ended up in a landfill. James Howells says it went to the Newport dump by mistake in August 2013. At $80K a coin that's about $640M. He spent years asking to dig it up. In January 2025 a court said his claim had no realistic chance. Chainalysis estimates 2.3M to 3.7M BTC may be lost for good, while only about 0.9M are left to mine. Write your seed phrase on paper and keep a backup copy somewhere else. Do you know where yours is? Just say yes or no, never the place.
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