Still stinging from the end of his quest to retrieve a hard drive containing $600 million worth of Bitcoin from under a mountain of “rubbish” he had mistakenly thrown out circa 2012, Welsh crypto loser James Howells tells the New York Post that maybe convicted felon President-Elect Trump, who is pro-crypto much more than he understands anything about crypto, can somehow intervene.
“So it is game over. I’ve not given up and will never surrender but it is looking pretty bleak,” said Howells “I don’t know what else to do. Maybe Donald Trump could help make something happen. I would certainly cut Trump in on the deal if he could help. I am appealing to him and anyone else who can help sort this madness. I’m half joking of course but it would be great if he did.”
To recap: Howells mined 8,000 Bitcoins back in 2009 when the crypto was a worthless novelty, stuck the keys to the coins on a hard drive, mistakenly threw out the hard drive in 2012 or so, then the next year began harassing the local government to allow him to conduct a search for the likely corroded-beyond-all-use drive in a landfill, and then 12 years later was told to piss off by the UK’s highest court. It’s not clear why he didn’t just start tunneling into the landfill himself in like 2015 or whenever the local government refused to budge, he might’ve found it by now.