After 12 Years of Failed Attempts, the Man Who Lost His Hard Drive Containing $742M in Bitcoin Finally Ends His Search
After 12 Years of Failed Attempts, the Man Who Lost His Hard Drive Containing $742M in Bitcoin Finally Ends His Search
The saga of James Howells represents one of the most astonishing tales of lost digital wealth in cryptocurrency history. After 12 years of persistent efforts, this IT professional from Newport, South Wales has finally abandoned his quest to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins – now valued...
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That HDD was unrecoverable years ago.
You mean on a technical level or on a "It's physically lost forever" level?
Because had he found it, the chances for recovery would have been fairly decent...if he was able to locate it...
After 12 years in a landfill that drive would be full of garbage soup. I've taken plenty of drives apart, and they aren't completely sealed.
Oh it'd be a job for a top tier professional recovery service, it would be expensive I'm sure, but if we're talking almost a billion....a couple thousand would be nothing lol