Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
It's a nightmarish situation – you mine some Bitcoin onto a hard drive when it's worth pennies, forget about the hard drive, end up accidentally throwing out the hard drive, and then realising that values of crypto have taken off since then and you've thrown away a quarter of a billion dollars! Richard Hammond met up with James, a crypto miner from Wales, who has lost out big time, but is putting together a serious plan to rescue his Bitcoin fortune.
It's a nightmarish situation – you mine some Bitcoin onto a hard drive when it's worth pennies, forget about the hard drive, end up accidentally throwing out the hard drive, and then realising that values of crypto have taken off since then and you've thrown away a quarter of a billion dollars! Richard Hammond met up with James, a crypto miner from Wales, who has lost out big time, but is putting together a serious plan to rescue his Bitcoin fortune.
