What would you do if you knew you’d thrown out something worth £600million? Well that’s what James Howells has been dealing with for the last 10 years, as he says his ex-girlfriend accidentally threw away a hard drive with 8000 bitcoins. Back then it wasn’t worth much, but now, it’s a life changing amount of money.
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00:00It's like, if you have the right to that money, that is so...
00:03That's such a mad amount of money to lose, I'm not going to lie. Yeah.
00:06It's hundreds of years from now, someone's going to discover it,
00:09isn't it, aren't they? Yeah.
00:11It'd be like finding one of those old Egyptian or Roman coins,
00:14wouldn't it? Well, not quite.
00:16I'd go in there at night, you know, with a stealth, you know,
00:19with a mask and a spade, and I'd start going through...
00:22No, that's really awful.
00:24You do hear about people, like, leaving money in a jacket
00:27which they give to a charity, should I say?
00:29Charity shop, and that's great, you know,
00:31if the charity shop gets it, brilliant.
00:34But the tip, that's hard, isn't it?
00:36He must be gutted, I'm sure he's trying everything.
00:39Yeah, not that I'm a Bitcoin player myself.
00:42I think I would, yeah, I'd just think about that every single day.
00:44Because, like, especially so much of that money could go to, like, charity
00:47and, like, help so many people.
00:49Like, there's the amount of people, like, in Newport in general
00:52who, like, don't only sleep on the streets, but they, like...
00:55No, there's people living in houses, but these houses, like,
00:57are covered in mould or, like, have, like, leaky roofs and stuff,
01:00and people just don't have, like, I don't know, 60 million.
01:04600 million. 600 million.
01:06Sorry, that's such a mad number that I keep forgetting it.
01:08Yeah, I guess I'd be a bit sick about it,
01:11but then life goes on, doesn't it?
01:13You've got... He can get that again.
01:15Come on, if you can get it once, you can get it again, can't you?
01:19When you look at the numbers and look at the size of the thing
01:21and how long it's been,
01:23you've got to be a bit logical about the situation,
01:25but each to your own on that one, I guess.
01:27I guess hope and faith are two great things to have in life,
01:31and if you've got those, then I'm sure you can carry yourself
01:35through anything, and I'm sure he'll carry himself through it
01:37and hopefully find it, but if it was me and that position,
01:41I'd be looking at the numbers and being like, yeah, it's gone.
01:43I must admit, I put some phones for recycling the other day,
01:46and it was only after I put them for recycling I thought,
01:49I didn't wipe them, but, you know, if you think about things like
01:51Bitcoins and things of value, then, yeah, that's a problem, isn't it?
01:56Absolutely. Poor man.