Briton James Hawells, who lost 787 million pounds due to the fact that his girlfriend threw a hard drive with bitcoins, now wants to buy a landfill to find her. He tries to return his assets after the city council refused him in search of a landfill. About this writes Binance Square. In 2009, during a short -term experiment, James Hawells mined 8,000 bitcoins - then still little -known cryptocurrencies that had no great cost.

For Hauwell, this was only a way to play with a computer, nothing more. He did not even realize that in a few years these crypto -stomachs would cost millions of dollars. However, after his girlfriend, Halfin Eddie Evans, complained about the noisy fan of his laptop, Howells stopped prey. And even when he accidentally spilled lemonade on a laptop, which made it disabled, Hawells could not transfer important files to another device. The closed key of the Bitcoin Pip remained on the damaged hard disk, and although Hawells tried to save his data, he could not transfer the key due to compatibility problems with the Apple operating system. In the same year, Hawells decided to clear the old things and asked his girlfriend Eddie Evans to help him get rid of unnecessary objects.

She attributed several bags with things to the landfill, among which was a hard drive containing a closed key of the bitcoin-wallet. " I did not know that it was bitcoin or something important, ”Eddie Evans explains.

After several years of silence, when Hauwells did not even mention lost coins, Bitcoin prices began to rise. And when the cost of bitcoins exceeded several thousand dollars per coin, Hawells realized that it was he who had lost. The hard drive that he threw out contained bitcoins, which at the time of the lost millions would be estimated at more than $ 787 million. Now that Bitcoin has reached more than 99,000 dollars per coin, the cost of this " Hawells, without stopping, decided to unearth the landfill where he threw the disk, demanding permission from the local authorities to search. A landfill on which its treasure is likely to contain more than 1.4 million tons of waste. He claims that he would be able to narrow the search area up to 100,000 tons, but the city council of Newport refuses to allow him to start excavations. The Council refers to environmental risks and logistics problems that may arise with such a large -scale operation.

Hawells did not stop and filed a lawsuit, demanding compensation for damage in the amount of $ 787 million for the maintenance of his property. Eddie Evans, in turn, admits that for her this situation has become very difficult. She tells how she is accused of a loss of bitcoins, although she just fulfilled Hawell's request.

" People mean me in messages, asking why I threw it away. But that was not my decision. He told me to do this, ”she said.

Eddie Evans also shared that Hauwell’s obsession with the restoration of a hard drive has become the main problem in their life even before the breakdown of their relationship. If she knew that inside the disk she would, of course, retained it.

For Hauwells on the horizon there is a hope that he will be able to return his lost property. In case of success, he promises to use part of the money won for the benefit of Newport, contributing to the turning of the city into the British version of Dubai or Las Vegas.