{"id":15152,"date":"2025-02-26T16:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15152"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:46:31","slug":"man-who-lost-775-million-bitcoin-hard-drive-faces-new-setback-recovery-chances-are-1-in-902-million-waste-expert-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15152","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Lost $775 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive Faces New Setback: Recovery Chances Are 1 In 902 Million, Waste Expert Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>James Howells, the man behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/02\/43584910\/man-who-accidentally-lost-his-775-million-bitcoin-stash-expresses-desire-to-buy-the-landfill-site\">a $775 million<\/a> <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) treasure hunt, is pushing back against waste management experts claiming recovering the lost fortune impossible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>A U.K. waste expert said the chances of recovering a lost hard drive containing 7,500 BTC from a Newport landfill are 1 in 902 million, essentially zero, due to the landfill&#8217;s massive size and waste accumulation over the years, The Block <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/343231\/waste-expert-says-chances-of-uk-man-finding-lost-bitcoin-fortune-are-1-in-902-million?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Howells strongly disputed this assessment, claiming their calculations are baseless. <\/p>\n<p>He argued that his team has access to advanced excavation techniques, including AI-powered object detection and sophisticated &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43979519\/man-who-lost-775-million-bitcoin-hard-drive-faces-new-setback-recovery-chances-are-1-in-90\" alt=\"Man\" who lost million bitcoin hard drive faces new setback: recovery chances are in waste expert claims>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Howells, the man behind a $775 million Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) treasure hunt, is pushing back against waste management experts claiming recovering the lost fortune impossible. What Happened: A U.K. waste expert said the chances of recovering a lost hard drive containing 7,500 BTC from a Newport landfill are 1 in 902 million, essentially zero, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-15152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}