This Guy Threw Out $800M in Bitcoin—Now There’s a Docuseries About His Trashy Life

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In the misty, rain-soaked heart of Wales, there lies—beside melancholy sheep and dreams deferred—a landfill brimming not just with egg cartons and regret, but with a fortune: the fabled hard drive of James Howells. Yes, dear reader, cast aside as carelessly as an old pair of galoshes, this bit of silicon cradleth eight thousand Bitcoin, lost since the halcyon, innocent year of 2013. Who among us does not tremble at throwing away yesterday’s tech? 🗑️💸

This small calamity, now the centerpiece for LEBUL’s forthcoming docuseries, forms a tale spun with the same energy as a Dostoevskian wager. James Howells—the modern Hamlet of Newport, who might murmur, “To dig, or not to dig?”—had entrusted his digital fortune to fate and an ex-partner with an eye for minimalism. Enter, stage left, the irony: the price of Bitcoin soared, and so did his anguish. If only he’d lost his gym socks instead.

They have christened this epic ‘The Buried Bitcoin: The Real-Life Treasure Hunt of James Howells’, because why call it ‘The Welshman’s Woebegone Wallet’ and risk sounding like a Dickens parody? The project sprawls across docuseries, podcasts, and enough social storytelling to ensure every amateur sleuth gets a stab at becoming the digital Diogenes.

The whole sordid affair hopes to dramatize Howells’ Sisyphean struggle—clawing through red tape (and possibly yesterday’s potato peels)—in an attempt to retrieve a hard drive now esteemed at over $800 million. That’s nearly enough to buy a week of London rent, or, if he’s lucky, the landfill itself.

“This isn’t just content,” says Reese Van Allen of LEBUL—perhaps with a straight face. “It’s a live-action tech thriller with nearly a billion dollars on the line.” Never has a documentary boasted so much anticipation over whether a man can find his trash before a seagull does. 🕵️‍♂️🪙

Our tragic hero, an early Bitcoin miner (insert the sound of 2010s disco here), blames his erstwhile partner, and who among us has not wished to blame a loved one for the loss of treasure—which in this case is very literal. He’s spent years besieging the Newport City Council, seeking leave to turn their noble refuse to his advantage, or, failing that, demanding a king’s ransom in compensation: £495 million, to be precise. The courts, suffused with bureaucratic dignity, have repeatedly told him to take a hike, preferably not to the city dump.

The Legal Quagmire of Our Day

Most recently, the scales of justice tilted deeply against Howells in Cardiff High Court, 2025. The authorities, in fine bureaucratic form, plan to replace the landfill with a solar farm—a gesture toward clean energy with a tantalizing subtext: “Let the sun shine on your lost millions.” 🌞😭

James, undaunted, threatens further legal melodrama—perhaps an appeal to the Supreme Court, or the outright purchase of the landfill, assuming he can find loose change under his sofa cushions. After all, what’s a few extra million among friends?

Thus, LEBUL promises a heady mixture of ecological bureaucracy, blockchain esoterica, and the irresistible pull of personal obsession. The world’s streaming titans and would-be crypto-kingpins hover over the project like hungry crows, waiting for a morsel of narrative gold.

And so, from the digital ashes of a discarded drive, rises the myth: a man, his missing millions, and the landfill that would be legend. Howells’ misfortune is now set to become the world’s least hygienic fairy tale—and possibly its most lucrative.

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2025-04-30 23:41