{"id":86668,"date":"2026-07-20T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86668"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:05:55","slug":"the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86668","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Threw Away $900 Million and Spent 12 Years Trying to Dig It Back Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Man holding a physical bitcoin.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up-190x107.png 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up-380x214.png 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up-760x428.png 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-man-who-threw-away-900-million-and-spent-12-years-trying-to-dig-it-back-up.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales, mined 8,000 Bitcoin in the early days and lost the keys in 2013 when an encrypted hard drive was mistakenly thrown away and sent to the Docksway landfill. After the High Court in Cardiff dismissed his claim in January 2025 and an appeal was refused in March [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales, mined 8,000 Bitcoin in the early days and lost the keys in 2013 when an encrypted hard drive was mistakenly thrown away and sent to the Docksway landfill. After the High Court in Cardiff dismissed his claim in January 2025 and an appeal was refused in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}