One woman named Halfina Eddy-Evans has revealed how she threw away her ex-boyfriend James Howells’ £569 million Bitcoin fortune. Can you imagine? This is heartbreaking!
According to Halfina, it wasn’t deliberate as James begged her to trash the hard drive containing the key to the Bitcoin and that’s how the £569 million Bitcoin fortune went missing.
Howells claims he mined the Bitcoin himself in 2009 and then forgot about it. But after discovering the 8,000 coins are now worth around £569m he is fighting for the right to search the landfill run by Newport Council.
Halfina said she took the hard drive containing the ‘key’ to the tip nine to ten years ago. The couple have since split up.
She said: ‘I hope he finds it, not that I want a penny of his money, but it will shut him up!’
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, the mother of their two teenage sons admitted: ‘Yes, I threw away his rubbish, he asked me 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”.
‘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.’
She added: ‘I’d love nothing more than him to find it. I’m sick and tired of hearing about it.’
Ms Eddy-Evans broke her silence after Mr Howells, 39, has vowed to take a council to court in his final bid to unearth the ‘key’ to a Bitcoin jackpot.
He is battling for the right to dig up a tip where he believes his lost and buried hard drive has been mistakenly trashed.
In a last bid to help unlock his fortune he is preparing to take Newport Council in Wales to court.
The lesson here, folks, is to always do your research before getting rid of anything. You never know what hidden treasures might be lying around. And if you ever come across an old hard drive, please, for the love of all things valuable, check its contents thoroughly.
So there you have it, the unbelievable story of how Halfina Eddy-Evans accidentally threw away James Howells’ £569 million Bitcoin fortune. It just goes to show that sometimes, ignorance truly isn’t bliss.
