James Howells, a Welsh computer engineer from Newport, was influenced at a young age by his mother, who was involved in the production of microchips. [16] [17] [18] By his teens, he was a regular user of the internet.Howells began building computers at the age of 13 and became a Napster user around the time of Bitcoin's inception. [12] [19] Working various IT jobs, he learnt …

12 hours ago · James Howells continues his quest to recover a mistakenly trashed fortune.

2 days ago · A computer engineer who lost £620m-worth of Bitcoin wants to buy the tip where he believes it was buried. James Howells, from Newport, claimed his ex-girlfriend mistakenly chucked out a hard ...

10 hours ago · A U.K. man hoping to retrieve a Bitcoin-laden hard drive from a city dump is offering to buy the landfill. That wallet today, the owner says, is worth nearly $770 million. James Howells, who has ...

14 hours ago · James Howells, a British IT worker who mined himself a sizable fortune of the cryptocurrency before accidentally throwing away the hard drive he stored the key on, is mulling buying the entire ...

23 hours ago · Computer expert James Howells from Newport in South Wales claimed his former girlfriend accidentally threw out a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013. Since then, he has tried and failed ...

1 day ago · James Howells was denied permission by the high court last month to search a South Wales landfill for his missing hard drive, which reportedly contains a Bitcoin wallet lost since 2013. A computer expert who has been fighting a legal battle for over a decade to retrieve his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin, ...

Jan 13, 2025 · A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landfill for over a decade.

Oct 14, 2024 · The story of James Howells, 39, is well known in Bitcoin lore. In 2013, Howells accidentally threw out a hard drive containing his bitcoin stash that he had mined in 2009, worth around $1 million...

Jul 24, 2022 · James Howells is known as the man who accidentally threw away 8,000 bitcoins. Now he has an $11 million master plan to get them back.