According to Gate News bot, as reported by Cointelegraph, James Howells has finally retrieved a hard drive containing the private key for 8000 Bitcoins from a landfill in the UK after 12 years of relentless effort. This batch of Bitcoins is currently valued at approximately $950 million in the market. Howells' journey to find it was filled with hardships, but it ultimately ended in success, writing a legendary story in the field of crypto assets. This incident has once again raised people's attention to the security of digital asset storage.
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A British man has finally found a hard drive containing 8000 Bitcoins after twelve years of searching, worth nearly one billion dollars.
According to Gate News bot, as reported by Cointelegraph, James Howells has finally retrieved a hard drive containing the private key for 8000 Bitcoins from a landfill in the UK after 12 years of relentless effort. This batch of Bitcoins is currently valued at approximately $950 million in the market. Howells' journey to find it was filled with hardships, but it ultimately ended in success, writing a legendary story in the field of crypto assets. This incident has once again raised people's attention to the security of digital asset storage.