# He Threw Away a BILLION POUNDS - Now He Is Fighting Councils and Investors to Get It Back (Bit Coin, Wealth & Investing) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/should-i-invest-in-bitcoin-grow-your-wealth-understand-the-cryptocurrency-bit-coin-for-millennials-serious-about-money-and-investing-6616963/he-threw-away-a-billion-pounds-now-he-is-fighting-councils-and-investors-to-get-it-back-bit-coin-wealth-investing Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/should-i-invest-in-bitcoin-grow-your-wealth-understand-the-cryptocurrency-bit-coin-for-millennials-serious-about-money-and-investing-6616963/he-threw-away-a-billion-pounds-now-he-is-fighting-councils-and-investors-to-get-it-back-bit-coin-wealth-investing.md Podcast: [Should I Invest in Bitcoin? Grow Your Wealth & Understand the Cryptocurrency Bit Coin, for Millennials Serious About Money and Investing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/should-i-invest-in-bitcoin-grow-your-wealth-understand-the-cryptocurrency-bit-coin-for-millennials-serious-about-money-and-investing-6616963) Published: 2026-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2249636/episodes/18761032-he-threw-away-a-billion-pounds-now-he-is-fighting-councils-and-investors-to-get-it-back-bit-coin-wealth-investing.mp3 Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2249636/episodes/18761032-he-threw-away-a-billion-pounds-now-he-is-fighting-councils-and-investors-to-get-it-back-bit-coin-wealth-investing.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/should-i-invest-in-bitcoin-grow-your-wealth-understand-the-cryptocurrency-bit-coin-for-millennials-serious-about-money-and-investing-6616963/episodes/he-threw-away-a-billion-pounds-now-he-is-fighting-councils-and-investors-to-get-it-back-bit-coin-wealth-investing Duration seconds: 761 ## Resource After the mistake comes the real story. For more than a decade James has tried to recover the lost hard drive buried in a landfill. Engineers have proposed digging operations. Investors have offered funding. Local councils have refused permission. What began as a simple accident slowly became an obsession. In Part 2 we explore the search for the missing fortune β€” the legal battles, the critics who say it’s impossible, and the strange hope that somewhere beneath a mountain of trash... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/should-i-invest-in-bitcoin-grow-your-wealth-understand-the-cryptocurrency-bit-coin-for-millennials-serious-about-money-and-investing-6616963/episodes/he-threw-away-a-billion-pounds-now-he-is-fighting-councils-and-investors-to-get-it-back-bit-coin-wealth-investing/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/should-i-invest-in-bitcoin-grow-your-wealth-understand-the-cryptocurrency-bit-coin-for-millennials-serious-about-money-and-investing-6616963/he-threw-away-a-billion-pounds-now-he-is-fighting-councils-and-investors-to-get-it-back-bit-coin-wealth-investing.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.