In 2013, a man named James Howell threw an old hard drive.

He had a couple of them in a desk drawer, and one of them he knew was no good.

He didn't need it anymore.

He didn't need the information on it, and so he tossed it out.

Tiny little thing.

The size of an iPhone 6, supposedly, this little hard drive.

But what he didn't realize until later was that it contained the only password

that exists in the world for him to be able to get into his crypto wallet,

which as some of you know, you can't do the password recovery, email me,

let me know what the password is, and you download it.

That's the show, honey.

That's all you got.

And so he had tossed out.

He discovered only too late.

This is back in 2013.

He threw away the only key to accessing 8,000 bitcoins, which he had purchased at a really good value.

And these two identical drives.

He knew one had it and one did not, and he thought he was positive.

He had thrown away the one that didn't have it on it.

And to his horror, he realized what he had done when it was already at the bottom

somewhere of this landfill, a landfill with 110,000 tons of garbage.

And somewhere in the midst of that landfill was his password that would allow him to access

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