10-year-old mystery of missing Rs 5,900 crore Bitcoin solved, and why no one can be blamed for the big loss

James Howells, who famously lost a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins (now worth approximately Rs 5,900 crore) in 2009, is facing another ‘bad news’. His former partner, Halfina Eddy-Evans, has reportedly confessed to discarding the hard drive at a Newport, Wales landfill nearly a decade ago.