A woman has spoken out after accidentally throwing away her ex's hard drive which gave him access to his $569 Bitcoin fortune. Since the election, the value of the cryptocurrency Bitcoing has soared, reaching its highest value a few weeks ago at $98,739 USD each.
One person who won’t be reveling in that bit of financial news is 39-year-old IT engineer James Howells from Newport, Wales, who had around 8,000 of the coins in 2009 that would today be worth around £618 million today. The reason? Howells no longer has access to Bitcoin, because 15 years ago his former girlfriend Halfina Eddy-Evans accidentally took the hard drive, which was in a bag, to a dump after mistaking it for rubbish.
The girlfriend is now claiming that she only disposed of the bag because Howells had asked her to. “The computer part had been disposed of in a black sack along with other unwanted belongings and he begged me to take it away, saying ‘There’s a bag of rubbish here to be taken to the tip’,” she told reporters. “I had no idea what was in it but I reluctantly dropped it off at the local tip on the way home from going on the school run. I thought he should be running his errands, not me, but I did it to help out. Losing it was not my fault.”
For years, Howells has been on a campaign to try and track down the lost hard drive which he believes is in a landfill site in Newport. Eddy-Evans, who shares two sons with Howells, admitted she hopes he finds it so “it will shut him up”. She added: “I’d love nothing more than him to find it. I’m sick and tired of hearing about it.”
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