The post The Dump Disaster: Half a Billion Bitcoins Gone Forever appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News “Imagine losing $500 million in an instant.” That’s exactly what happened to James Howell, a man who had accumulated 8,000 Bitcoins when it was just $3.78 each in 2009 only to lose the hard drive containing them all. Mr. Howells is a Welsh Computer software programmer and a well-known miner in the world of cryptocurrency. …