I accidentally threw away my boyfriend's £569MILLION Bitcoin fortune. It wasn't my fault, but I hope he finds it... because it will finally shut him up!

A pistillate has revealed however she accidentally threw distant the 'key' to her boyfriend's £569m Bitcoin fortune, arsenic helium fights for the close to hunt a immense landfill successful an effort to find it. 

Halfina Eddy-Evans, speaking for the archetypal clip astir her ex fellow James Howells cyber nightmare, admitted taking the hard thrust to the extremity successful Wales but claims she did truthful astatine his request.

Howells claims helium mined the Bitcoin himself successful 2009 and past forgot astir it. But aft discovering the 8,000 coins are present worthy around £569m is warring for the close to hunt the landfill run by Newport Council. 

Halfina said she took the hard thrust containing the 'key' to the extremity 9 to 10 years ago. The mates person since divided up. 

She said: 'I anticipation helium finds it, not that I privation a penny of his money, but it volition unopen him up!'

In an exclusive interrogation with MailOnline, the parent of their 2 teenage sons admitted: 'Yes, I threw distant his rubbish, helium asked maine to.

'The machine portion had been disposed of successful a achromatic sack on with different unwanted belongings and helium begged maine to instrumentality it away, saying 'There's a container of rubbish present to beryllium taken to the tip'.

'I had nary thought what was successful it but I reluctantly dropped it disconnected astatine the section extremity connected the mode location from going connected the schoolhouse run.

'I thought helium should beryllium moving his errands, not me, but I did it to assistance out.

'Losing it was not my fault.'

She added: 'I'd emotion thing much than him to find it. I'm sick and bushed of proceeding astir it.'

Ms Eddy-Evans broke her soundlessness aft Mr Howells, 39, has vowed to instrumentality a assembly to tribunal successful his last bid to unearth the 'key' to a Bitcoin jackpot.

He is battling for the close to excavation up a extremity wherever helium believes his mislaid and buried hard thrust has been mistakenly trashed.

In a past bid to assistance unlock his luck helium is preparing to instrumentality Newport Council successful Wales to court.

The 'lost' luck astatine today's prices makes his Bitcoin worthy £569m and helium has pledged to donate 10 per cent of proceeds backmost to the section country - capable to alteration Newport into 'Dubai oregon Las Vegas of the UK'.

He claims his spouse astatine the clip had chucked distant his unwanted belongings, including machine instrumentality which contained a captious password.

Ms Eddy-Evans from Newport, Gwent, admitted: 'Yes, I threw distant his rubbish, helium asked maine to.

'It was years ago, possibly nine-ten years, and it was accidentally thrown away.

'But I anticipation helium finds it, not that I privation a penny of his money, but it volition unopen him up!'

He had acquired 8,000 coins aft 10 weeks of experimenting with the caller cryptocurrency craze.

At the clip helium did not realise their value, and helium had to halt mining aft complaints from his past partner, Hafina. He kept his laptop successful their chamber and, erstwhile it was running, the sound of its instrumentality stopped her sleeping.

Soon afterwards James knocked a solid of lemonade implicit his laptop and contempt efforts to cleanable it, it ne'er worked decently again.

He sold the components for parts, keeping the hard thrust and transferring each the photos and euphony connected it to an Apple computer. The lone happening helium couldn't transcript crossed was the tiny record containing the passcode to his Bitcoins due to the fact that it wasn't compatible with Apple's operating system.

He threw the hard thrust into the benignant of junk drawer astir of america person astatine location and forgot astir it for the adjacent 3 years, concentrating connected enactment and household beingness — by past helium and Hafina had 2 young sons.

The exasperated parent said: 'It looks similar he's blaming me, but I don't deliberation helium truly is, not that we are adjacent talking now.'

Recalling the clip her past spouse asked her to bash a favour, she explained: 'He said determination were a fewer achromatic sacks of rubbish to instrumentality to the tip, 3 oregon four, and helium asked maine to bash it.

'Reluctantly, I did it but had nary thought what it contained, a hard thrust linked to Bitcoin which past became a large thing, and has since gone done the roof!

'Losing it was not my fault!'

'At the clip James had discarded the hard drive, throwing it distant and reasoning it was of nary use.

'But present helium thinks it could beryllium worthy a luck and helium is inactive warring the council. It has been going connected a agelong time.'

She added: 'I'd emotion much than thing for him to find it. I'm sick and bushed of proceeding astir it!

'Part of maine thinks the assembly should fto the extremity tract beryllium dug up, it's not helping his intelligence wellness with the thoughts of sitting successful a luck helium can't get.

'But the different portion thinks for him conscionable to driblet it and fto it go.

'People support tagging maine online, my friends and random people, with his comments astir his nonaccomplishment of a fortune.

'But I accidental 'Don't inquire maine astir it!'.

'I person nary assertion connected immoderate wealth helium could beryllium worth. He is the begetter of my 2 sons but I don't privation a penny of his money.'

The terms of the Bitcoin precocious deed a grounds precocious of $80,000 - a emergence of much than 80pc this twelvemonth and the highest connected grounds since it was formed successful 2009. 

But Mr Howells says each Bitcoin needs to bash is deed the $157k people and it would interruption done the cardinal lb barrier. 

'This occupation is ne'er going to spell away. This is ever going to beryllium a treasure hunt,' helium told Fortune.  

'The treasure is getting much and much invaluable by the day, and that isn't going to stop.'

There is much than 1.4million tonnes of discarded astatine the landfill, but Mr Howells says helium won't request to hunt it each arsenic helium has narrowed the hard drive's determination down to an country of 100,000 tonnes, reported the BBC.  

But Newport metropolis assembly has repeatedly refused to fto him hunt the country arsenic it 'is not imaginable nether our biology permit, and that enactment of that quality would person a immense antagonistic biology interaction connected the surrounding area'.

Mr Howells announced past period that helium was suing the assembly for £495,314,800 successful damages, accusing the section authorization of 'withholding my spot without my consent'.

A archetypal proceeding connected an exertion from the authorization to get it thrown retired is scheduled for aboriginal month, with a justice acceptable to regularisation connected December 3.  

A spokesperson for Newport City Council said: 'Newport City Council has been contacted aggregate times since 2013 astir the anticipation of retrieving a portion of IT hardware said to beryllium successful our landfill site.

'The assembly has told Mr. Howells aggregate times that excavation is not imaginable nether our biology permit, and that enactment of that quality would person a immense antagonistic biology interaction connected the surrounding area.

'The assembly is the lone assemblage authorised to transportation retired operations connected the site.

'Mr. Howells's assertion has nary merit, and the assembly is vigorously resisting it.'