{"id":37680,"date":"2025-07-18T15:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37680"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:01:35","slug":"movie-studio-secures-rights-to-tell-tale-of-crypto-investor-who-accidentally-threw-away-digital-keys-to-his-725-million-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37680","title":{"rendered":"Movie Studio Secures Rights To Tell Tale Of Crypto Investor Who Accidentally Threw Away Digital Keys To His $725 Million Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>British<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46187123\/bitcoin-ethereum-solana-xrp-or-dogecoin-if-you-invested-1000-in-these-cryptos-when-2025-began-here-is-how-much-youd-have-today-now-that-half-the-year-is-over\"> cryptocurrency<\/a> investor <strong>James Howells<\/strong> became infamous for accidentally throwing the hard drive containing the passkeys to his $725 million fortune in the trash. The passkeys ended up in a landfill and a movie studio recently secured the right to film a documentary about Howells&#8217; quest to recover his fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrency is no different from any other investment in the sense that the earlier you buy in, the more upside there is. Howells had the presence of mind to buy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/46148904\/donald-trump-says-bitcoin-takes-a-lot-of-pressure-off-the-dollar\"> Bitcoin<\/a> when cryptocurrency was in its infancy, and still relatively affordable. In May, Howells told the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c74zel3ng1vo\"> BBC<\/a> he had amassed 8,000 Bitcoins by 2013, and they were trading at around $950 each by year&#8217;s end. At that point, his crypto fortune was worth roughly $7.6 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Miss:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Deloitte&#8217;s fastest-growing software company partners with Amazon, Walmart &amp; Target \u2013 Many are rushing to grab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/mode-mobile-2\"><strong>4,000 of its pre-IPO shares for just $0.30\/share<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>$100k+ in investable assets? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/wiseradvisor-retirement-planning\"><strong>Match with a fiduciary advisor for free to learn how you can maximize your retirement and save on taxes<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 no cost, no obligation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25134289\">BBC<\/a>, the hard drive with the digital passkeys to Howells&#8217; crypto fortune was inadvertently thrown away at some point in 2013. The incident occurred during a routine cleaning at his house in England, and although Howells insists to the BBC that his girlfriend threw the hard drive away, it doesn&#8217;t matter who threw it out. The end result was still the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/07\/46494803\/movie-studio-secures-rights-to-tell-tale-of-crypto-investor-who-accidentally-threw-away-digital-keys-to-hi\" alt=\"Movie\" studio secures rights to tell tale of crypto investor who accidentally threw away digital keys his million fortune>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British cryptocurrency investor James Howells became infamous for accidentally throwing the hard drive containing the passkeys to his $725 million fortune in the trash. The passkeys ended up in a landfill and a movie studio recently secured the right to film a documentary about Howells&#8217; quest to recover his fortune. Cryptocurrency is no different from [&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-37680","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\/37680","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=37680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}