It’s a nightmarish situation – you mine some Bitcoin onto a hard drive when it’s worth pennies, forget about the hard drive, end up accidentally throwing out the hard drive, and then realising that values of crypto have taken off since then and you’ve thrown away a quarter of a billion dollars! Richard Hammond met up with James, a crypto miner from Wales, who has lost out big time, but is putting together a serious plan to rescue his Bitcoin fortune.
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Man i really really hope they can come together and find that drive
So impressive that James is persisting and not only that but has gathered this amazing team and plan and vibe despite this unfortunate accident.
Lesson for you children here. Never discard a hard drive or SSD!
richards in his element here, cheers guys
Even if he finds the hard drive, there's no way that it's going to be preserved enough to extract the data.
Richard is a ledgend. A proper journalist. Reminds me of louis theroux. He’s just genuinely interested in the stories and follows along and gets fully involved. I can imagine him putting on his gloves and actually searching the dump to help the guy.
Keep us updated, please!
I really hope that he finds it, it will a modern day treasure hunt!
he should have focused on eth/hex/polkadot/kusama/bnb ETC ETC so many other oportunities to make it all back and now pulsechain
Russ Hannemann?
I really love how diverse the content got with the rebrand. Really keeps the channel interesting
Keep us in The loop on this. Would love to know if he finds it and if the data can be retrieved.🤞🏻
Just watched the hottest ribs video. Why don't you have Ben hosting more? He is a natural. Give that man a raise and more hosting duties!
What's a landfill?
like how hammonds daily driver is a ford pickup he is a really down to earth chap
Seems suspicious that anyone that into computers would just throw a hard drive out.
If successful, it will be close to a miracle. Wish this gentleman all the luck.
Oh I can't wait to see what happens next. Hope we get an update
Although, i have no issues him doing a legal challenge for an injunction, the question is, once you throw something away, can you claim it back if it goes up in value later on even if someone else claims it? because if you discard something, you give up ownership of it. Secondly, if it was valued at $1.4 million dollars at the time of disposal , wouldn't you check before you throw it away? because people don't get careless if big money is involved.
To sum it up, i think legally, he could lose the case for the injunction because if it was granted, it'll open up a can of worms for similar cases. Personally, I think that he didn't have it in the first place and made it up to gain notoriety because people have done it in the past for very little.
Who agrees/disagrees?
I am not involved in this and don't know the minutia of the plan but it seems that the most important thing is missing from it. He is simply not selling it to the council. In fact it is dead simple to get the council on board and make a ton (!) of money in the process against which the Bitcoin on that unicorn hard drive will look like back of the sofa change…
Where did the the garbage of 2013 go? Plus there is a chance that the hdd could have been..recycled?
so how come in 2013 he had 7500 coins ? where did the extra 500 come from
Great piece. I wonder want the mood is with the value having shrunk with the crypto collapse of 2022?
Did richard say newport?? As in newport in south wales close to me?? WOW EPIC!!
What's stopping the government or council from having it off? Do you trust them??
The landfill is the only place crypto belongs. Well done lad
Does he have the serial number for the hard drive from when he bought it?
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Typical Apple user. I bet he still doesn't make backups.
Best outcome could be that the landfills get cleaned out of things that don't belong buried in the ground , call it a eco clean up !
When someone truly understands bitcoin for the first time, they become obsessed with it. It is the cheat code to wealth. It may be the closest thing to magic in our universe. You can literally store money in your head with a list of words or even a phrase. If you know someone else's list, you can steal their power. This guy never really saw it's power, he didn't really understand Bitcoin, so he was careless. Never feel sorry for him.
Best of luck to James! This is a fascinating and frustrating story, I hope the plan comes together! Loving this channel with Hammond and May, hoping to see Clarkson too! will watch anything those three present 🙂
And here I am mad I deleted 3 BTC a decade ago… that guy must be going mad!
Is it worth 250m today or 3 months ago? 😅
Great video !
Bit coin should be made worthless.
he's got that sick $5 mouse lol
Where's your Raptor??
How can i contact with james howells? Can any one help me please?
Well, they found the ET cartridges. You never know….
Bitcoin in a landfill, right where it belongs.
I remember I bought 100 bitcoins when they were going for just over a dollar. Then they went down after that. I formatted the drive the wallet was on forgetting at the time it was on there. At the time I didn't care, these days though, it would be nice. So somewhere in the ethos is 100 coins forever stuck.
How do you accidentally throw away a hard drive?