There is a famous story in the cryptocurrency world about an IT worker in Wales named James Howells.  In 2013, he accidentally threw away a computer hard drive containing the digital keys to 8,000 Bitcoin. As of August 2025, he was still petitioning his local city council to let him excavate the municipal landfill – even offering to buy it – just to find a piece of trash now worth hundreds of millions of dollars. For a long time, that story represented the reality of buying and holding Bitcoin.

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