According to a report by Golden Finance and disclosed by Cointelegraph, James Howells, who attempted to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin private keys from a landfill in the UK, has ended a 12-year search and successfully retrieved the hard drive, which contains 8,000 Bitcoins currently valued at approximately $950 million.
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A British man has recovered a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins, currently worth about $950 million.
According to a report by Golden Finance and disclosed by Cointelegraph, James Howells, who attempted to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin private keys from a landfill in the UK, has ended a 12-year search and successfully retrieved the hard drive, which contains 8,000 Bitcoins currently valued at approximately $950 million.