A woman has revealed how she accidentally threw away the ‘key’ to her boyfriend’s £569million Bitcoin fortune, as he fights for the right to search a huge landfill in an attempt to find it.
Halfina Eddy-Evans, speaking for the first time about her ex boyfriend James Howells cyber nightmare, admitted taking the hard drive to the tip in Wales but claims she did so at his request.
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 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…
