heartbreaking

For 12 years, James Howells has been searching a landfill for a lost hard drive containing $649 million in bitcoin—and he isn't giving up yet.

What began as a routine cleanup turned into one of the strangest financial sagas of the digital age. For over a decade, one man has battled bureaucracy, technology, and time itself—all in search of a single lost hard drive. Now, a new court decision could finally change the story’s course.
October 28, 2025 Jesse Singer