It's very sad , that he has been trying to retrieve the hard drive that his girlfriend mistakenly threw away in the Newport Wales scrap heap. The hard drive had 8000 BTC stored . In January of 2025 the court formally rejected his legal proposal to dig the landfill. besides the chances of finding the hard drive is so low and even if they find the drive corrosion and contraction make data retrieval unattainable. An agonizing reminder that without a reliable reserve or cold-storage, that large sum of BTC can be lost.