 "By mistake, the woman threw the key of the ‘tezori’, the lover suffered a loss of 6 thousand crores, know the case")
There are many people in the world who are rich in fortune. If such people lay their hands on anything, it becomes a treasure. But on the contrary there are many people who are victims of bad luck. Today we are going to tell you about one such person, whose name is James Howells. James, who hails from Newport City, Wales, United Kingdom, would have been worth Rs 6,24 crore today if his girlfriend had not accidentally thrown away the key to the Bitcoin ‘treasure’.
James’ girlfriend Hafina Eddy-Evans has revealed this herself. Hafina has revealed how she accidentally threw away the ‘keys’ to her boyfriend’s 569 million pounds (roughly Rs 6024 crore) Bitcoin wealth, reports DailyMail. Now Hafina’s boyfriend James is fighting for the right to search a giant landfill for the treasure.
Howells, Hafina’s boyfriend, claims that he himself bought the bitcoin in 2009 and then forgot about it. But after they discovered that the 8,000 bitcoins they bought are now worth around £569 million (Rs 6024 crore), they are fighting for the right to search the landfill run by Newport Council.
Along with this, Hafina said that she had thrown the hard drive in the garbage at the request of James 9 to 10 years ago. James himself asked me to do this, because it contained some computer viruses. When James told me, I thought he should do his job, but then I decided to help him. That hard drive itself contained the Bitcoin passcode, which James had given away.
Losing that bitcoin password key wasn’t my fault. Hafina said that I have not done this on purpose. I have no greed for his money either.
Hafina added that if she gets that key I will be happy. It was many years ago, maybe nine or ten years ago, when I accidentally threw it away at his behest. But I hope he finds it. At the same time, 39-year-old James Howells wants to somehow get the passcode that is locked in his computer.
They are preparing to take Newport Council in Wales to court to find out the ‘keys’ to the Bitcoin jackpot. James has said that if he gets the key, he will give 10 per cent of the treasure to his local area, enough to make Newport ‘the UK’s Dubai or Las Vegas’.
When James bought Bitcoin, he didn’t realize its value, DailyMail reported. During that time, his girlfriend Hafina also didn’t like investing in Bitcoin. In such a situation, he stopped buying it after 8 thousand coins.
How did the ‘key’ get from junk to trash?
How did that bitcoin key (passcode) end up in the trash? This question certainly comes to mind. In such a situation, let us tell you that once James was sleeping at home with his laptop open, the lemonade kept nearby fell. The laptop was completely damaged. In such a situation, James took out the hard drive of the laptop and transferred all the photos and music in it to the Apple computer.
The only thing he couldn’t copy was a small file containing Bitcoin’s passcode, which was incompatible with Apple’s operating system. However, after sitting at home for too long, the hard drive went into the junk room and was forgotten for the next three years. During this time Hafina and James had two children, so they became involved in family life. Years later, James considered it trash and gave it to be thrown away.
Hafina, James’ ex-girlfriend, says the council should give permission to search the place. Also, James Howells announced last month that he is suing the council for £495,314,800 (more than £52,000) in damages. He has accused council officials of ‘holding property without consent’.
While, a spokesman for Newport City Council said, ‘Newport City Council has been contacted several times since 2013 to allow us to search for pieces of IT hardware located at the landfill site.’
But mining is not possible under our environmental permit and doing so would have a very negative environmental impact on the surrounding area. We believe that Howells’ claim has no merit and therefore the Council strongly opposes it.