The €649 Million Mistake: Man Who Lost 8,000 Bitcoins Gets His Story Turned into a Documentary In 2013, James Howells, a Welsh computer scientist, accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins—today worth nearly €649 million. After twelve years of tireless efforts, legal setbacks, and high-tech proposals, he’s now closing this chapter. But his … Continue reading For 12 years, he’s 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.