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💥 12 years of frantically mining junk! A British man gambled his family's lives to take on the government, digging out 950 million Bitcoins! The hard drive was surprisingly gasping for air in a pool of strong acid?!
"My life is buried in this pile of mud! If I dig three feet down and can't find it, I'll die right here!"
—— When James Howells was shouting at the garbage mountain, no one believed he was carrying billions in lottery tickets.
On August 5, 2025, a stinking landfill exploded with a deafening sound!
The British man known as "Crazy James" by his neighbors crawled out of a 17-meter deep garbage pile, covered in black mud, holding a broken old hard drive split into three pieces — locked inside are 8000 Bitcoins, enough to buy 30 private jets, worth $950 million!
■ 12 Years Worse Than Bankruptcy: From a Respectable IT Guy to a Trash Yard Madman
On that rainy night in 2013, he casually threw away a hard drive while cleaning out old items. The next day, he woke up to the news that the price of Bitcoin had soared like a rocket — the 8000 coins on that hard drive had overnight transformed from "digital trash" to "mobile vault"!
He knelt by the trash can, crying until he dry heaved, and madly rushed into the local largest landfill, only to be pressed into the mud by the police: "This is government territory; dare to dig and you'll go to jail!"
For the next 12 years, he became a laughingstock across the internet:
- His wife scolded him for "destroying the family for a string of numbers" and moved out with the children.
- He mortgaged the house into dust, and all the money he got was spent on geological experts, filling the map with crooked Xs.
- Netizens mocked with an edited image: "I suggest burying him in a landfill, to keep company with Bitcoin"
- In his most desperate moment, he ate antidepressants while facing a mountain of garbage, with a suicide note he had written in his pocket.
■ Fight to the last second: Exchange life for the court's "last 30 days"
Everyone thought he would collapse, until the spring of 2025, when he threw out two cards:
✅ The garbage truck driver suddenly appeared that year, trembling as he pointed out "the garbage that day was unloaded in section C, slot three."
✅ Environmental experts have presented the "nano-level dust-free excavation plan" - promising that the excavated areas will be cleaner than parks.
At the moment the judge made the decision, he collapsed in court: "30 days, if you can't mine it, get lost, I will never get entangled!"
For 30 days, he and his team lived in a shipping container by the dump, with the AI scanner buzzing 24 hours a day. On the 28th day, the detector suddenly screamed—17 meters deep in the humus layer, the metal detector was going crazy!
The hard drive that was dug out looked like a piece of rotten mud: the shell was corroded with pits and holes by strong acid, and there was black-green grime at the interface, which fell off at a light touch. The engineer rushed into the lab with it, not sleeping for 72 hours, with sparks from the soldering gun splattering all over the protective suit—when the computer screen displayed "Data Read Successful," the entire team cried until they were oxygen-deprived!
■ It's now the world's turn to go crazy:
A netizen dug up an interview from 12 years ago, where he said with red eyes, "I know this sounds like a joke, but I have to try," and the comments section exploded:
"The people who laughed at him for being stupid back then now have faces more cracked than a hard drive."
"What kind of Bitcoin mining is this? It's burying the words 'never give up' in a landfill."
And James stood at the press conference, holding that crumpled will in his hand, smiling as he announced:
"First, buy a house for the garbage dump manager who drove me away—thank him for not treating me like trash."
"Half of the remaining money will be invested in environmental protection, and the other half... to help everyone who has lost a hard drive to establish a 'digital lost and found'"
Last question:
Isn't the old hard drive in the corner of your drawer also waiting for you to dig it out? #晒出我的Alpha积分# #加密市场反弹# #加密项目计划# #加密市场反弹#