Halfina Eddy-Evans has spoken out for the first time after he lost his fortune when she accidentally threw it away
A woman has spoken about the agonising moment she realised that she had mistakenly thrown away her boyfriend's multimillion dollar Bitcoin fortune. She revealed that she had chucked an old hard drive at a tip in Wales oblivious to the fact it held 8,000 bitcoins mined by now ex-boyfriend, James Howells in 2009.
Adding, "I thought 'he should be running his errands, not me,' but I did it to help out. Losing it was not my fault. I'd love nothing more than him to find it. I'm sick and tired of hearing about it." The 'lost' fortune at today's prices makes his Bitcoin worth £569m, and he has pledged to donate 10 per cent of the proceeds back to his local area. Ms Eddy-Evans, a mother of two, commented: "Part of me thinks the council should let the tip site be dug up, it's not helping his mental health with the thoughts of sitting in a fortune he can't get. But the other part thinks for him just to drop it and let it go.
A Newport City Council spokeswoman stated: " Council has been contacted multiple times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to be in our landfill site.
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