Investor James Hollwells lost this amount ten years ago when his girlfriend was cleaning and threw away the only storage media with information to access her Bitcoin wallet. The assets on the drive are currently valued at almost one and a half billion pounds sterling (almost $2 billion US) Howells is currently trying to recover a storage device containing thousands of bitcoins.
To do this, he must sort through tons of garbage, but the local administration posted guards at the landfill to prevent him from doing this.