James Howells, 38, launches legal battle to get Bitcoin drive from council dump. He accidentally threw away hard drive with crypto worth up to £1.5bn in 2013A computer expert who accidentally threw out his Bitcoin fortune has seen its value rocket to be up to £1.5billion - and has launched a legal fight to get it back.
He told MailOnline last night: 'Some experts believe that by the end of the year the price will rise to $25,000 per coin. That would make my hard drive worth £1.5billion. The council may be happy to leave that in a landfill but I'm not. James's partner threw out as rubbish a black bin bag in which he was temporarily storing the hard drive containing the only access to his crypto assets
He was going to take rubbish to the dump but said he went to bed that night with a nagging feeling something was wrong. 'She was doing me a favour, or so she thought, she didn't know what was in there. She did it for me but she didn't do it with my permission.' He said: 'It's a bit like when you kick your football over your neighbour's fence. It's still your football.
They are also funding his legal team which includes a KC based in London to represent him in the High Court. 'I've spoken to data recovery experts who have worked with Nasa on the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
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