Woman accidentally throws away boyfriend's £569 million bitcoin, sparking legal battle

Woman threw away her boyfriend's Bitcoin, now he is fighting to dig through a landfill where the hard drive is buried.

A woman has shared the moment she realized she accidentally threw away a fortune worth £569 million and how she had to break the news to her ex-boyfriend. 

Halfina Eddy-Evans recounts how she disposed of an old hard drive at a waste tip in Wales, unaware that it contained 8,000 bitcoins, originally mined by James Howells in 2009, which are now worth an astronomical amount. 

Howells is currently battling for the right to search through the Newport Council landfill where Halfina claims she dropped the hard drive, which held the 'key' to the bitcoin, roughly a decade ago. 

Though the couple has since parted ways, Halfina told Mail Online that she hopes her ex finds the bitcoins, not because she wants a share of the money, but to finally end his constant talk about it. 

She explained: "Yes, I threw away his rubbish, he asked me to. The computer part had been disposed of in a black sack along with other unwanted belongings and he begged me to take it away. I had no idea what was in it but I reluctantly dropped it off at the local tip on the way home from going on the school run."

"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."

James Howells is now taking legal action against the council, hoping to recover the 'key' to his bitcoin fortune. He believes the digital key is on a hard drive buried in 110,000 tons of waste at a nearby landfill that has now been covered with grass.

At current prices, the bitcoin is worth £569 million, and Howells has pledged to donate 10% of the proceeds to his local community.

Ms. Eddy-Evans, a mother of two, also 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."