I saw the news circulating that James Howells had given up everything with his 8,000 lost BTC, but apparently that's not quite true. He himself denied it on social media, saying the story was misreported. In 2013, he threw away a hard drive containing bitcoins mined years earlier, which ended up in a landfill in Newport. With the price skyrocketing, he has been trying for years to get permission to dig it up, but the regional council has always said no. Howells has tried everything, even using AI to locate the disk. With BTC currently at $80,860, that disk would be worth about $646 million. The interesting part is that in July, he made a formal offer between $33 million and $40 million to acquire and excavate the landfill, sent to Newport representatives. To raise funds, James Howells planned to launch an Ordinals token representing 21% of the lost value. But no — Newport didn't even respond to the offer. So now he has said enough with the landfill acquisition, enough with the digging, enough with the council. It's interesting how a simple hard drive loss can turn into such a complex legal and financial battle.