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US firm buys rights to make ‘buried bitcoin' TV series
Western Mail
|May 01, 2025
AN AMERICAN production company has bought the rights to make a TV series about a Welsh father who lost a fortune at a rubbish dump.
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James Howells, from Newport, became one of the first miners of Bitcoin in 2009 after learning about the cryptocurrency from internet forums. The 39-year-old created 8,000 coins, which cost him almost nothing, and stored the access code on a 2.5in hard drive in a drawer at his home office. But in 2013 his then-partner mistakenly threw out the hard drive.
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