James Howells Loses His £569 Million Bitcoin Fortune After His Ex-girlfriend Halfina Eddy-Evans Threw His Hard Drive Away

One woman named Halfina Eddy-Evans has revealed how she threw away her ex-boyfriend James Howells’ £569 million Bitcoin fortune. Can you imagine? This is heartbreaking! According to Halfina, it wasn’t deliberate as James begged her to trash the hard drive containing the key to the Bitcoin and that’s how the £569 million Bitcoin fortune went missing. Howells claims he mined the Bitcoin himself in 2009 and then forgot about it. But after discovering the 8,000 coins are now worth around £569m he is fighting for the right to search the landfill run by Newport Council. Halfina said she took the hard drive containing the ‘key’ to the tip nine to ten years ago. The couple have since split up. She said: ‘I hope he finds it, not that I want a penny of his money, but it will shut him up!’ In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, the mother of their two teenage sons admitted: ‘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, saying “There’s a bag of rubbish here to be taken to...