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November 3, 2025 by jpalleiko

He Lost $1 Billion Worth of Bitcoin

We all make mistakes, but in 2013 a Welsh computer engineer named James Howells made one of the largest errors of all time when he tossed into the landfill a laptop carrying the password for a Bitcoin account now worth $1 billion. Now it’s his obsessive life mission to recover his lost riches.

Popular Mechanics 
Edited by Lou Mazzante


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