Almost 8,000 bitcoins have been thrown in the trash. An Englishman suffered for eight years. Now his wife is broken.

According to UK media reports on December 15 local time, a man in Newport, Wales, England lost a hard drive worth almost 8,000 BTC (now worth £ 340million) eight years ago.But he was also told to search for the trash, and in the end, he decided to hire a data scientist who traded with NASA to help him find his fortune.

According to the report, James Howells, a 36-year-old computer scientist, is one of the leaders who are discovering Bitcoin.At the time, he was looking for almost 8,000 bitcoins a week, but it was no good, so he kept digging into a small hard drive and forgot about it.

Until one night in August 2013,Howell finds the hard drive, starts throwing out the trash, but forgets all the bitcoin stored there and throws it into the trash can he used to prepare the trash.When he woke up the next day, Howells recalled that he had nearly 8,000 bitcoins stored on his hard drive, which he immediately lost. , and the garbage truck picked up the garbage in the morning.

At the time, Howells' internal pain was not deep, but a few months later the 29-year-old Norwegian Bitcoin bought a unit at $ 400,000 for every 1,000 bitcoins. It was only then that Howells realized that one of his misdeeds had sidetracked him from the path to wealth.So he made a plan to find the hard drive and asked the Newport City Government for help, but the answer he got was "no".

A Newport mayor said he would not consider the idea of ​​demolition and would not allow Howells to meet with the government to explain his plans. he says:“The cost of digging, storing and disposing of trash can run into the millions of pounds, and there is no guarantee that the hard drive will be found or that it will still be usable. Interfere with the surrounding area, we can't help it. "

Without government help, Howells would not give up. Over the past eight years, he has considered a variety of options, including forming hunting teams, seeking the support of contractors, and consulting with the City of Newport government to find a solution to the% of the stakes. . When Howells frantically searched for hard drives, he ignored his girlfriends and children, lost them, and ultimately lost interest in his family, the people and the things around them.

Earlier this year, it also brought in engineers, environmentalists and data recovery experts from around the world. Its "professional partnership" now includes data recovery companies that do business with NASA. The company claims Howells' hard drive has never been broken and there is an 80-90% chance of recovering its massive Bitcoin funding. Howells also believes that he spoke to a professional data recovery expert and was able to recover the data affected by the crash site and recover the hard drive data without any problems.