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$950M in Bitcoin… GONE Forever!? [Howells' Insane Story]
Published: 2025-08-09
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Published: 2025-08-09
Status:
Analyzed
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James Howell will launch a new cryptocurrency called Kiocoin, a utility token, to represent the value of his lost Bitcoin, aiming to bring DeFi functionality back to the Bitcoin blockchain.
"I have no choice but to pivot and to tokenize that wallet and that address and those tokens and launch a new cryptocurrency that will represent what is in the wallet. ... What I'm looking to do is create a utility token. I would like to bring a lot of the DeFi functionality that has been enabled by Ethereum, Solana, and many other blockchains back to the Bitcoin blockchain."
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Kiocoin will have a total supply of 800 billion tokens, directly mirroring the 800 billion Satoshis (8,000 Bitcoin) in James Howell's lost wallet.
"So each of my Kiocoins, which there will be a total supply of 800 billion, will mirror one-to-one the number of Satoshis in my wallet address."
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James Howell commits to working on, promoting, and being involved with the Kiocoin protocol for the next 20 years, aiming for it to benefit the Bitcoin community.
"I want to launch a protocol that I will work on for the next 20 years, that I will promote, that I will be involved with, that will be beneficial to the Bitcoin community as a whole."
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Kiocoin was planned to launch in late 2025, with integration into Stacks, Runes, and Ordinals, focused on bringing DeFi use cases to Bitcoin.
"You're saying that it's going to be integrated with Stacks, Runes, and Ordinals, launching late 2025. ... So, this is coming towards the end of the year. I plan to create a DeFi-focused token and bring a lot of use cases back to Bitcoin."
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The physical hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin is likely in recoverable condition and will require professional, multi-step data recovery including stripping, disc extraction, cleaning, component rebuilding, and byte-by-byte data reading.
"There is a very good chance that the physical hard drive itself is in reasonable condition... Obviously, we're going to have to perform high-level data recovery operations on this. We're going to have to strip apart the drive. We're going to have to extract the disc. We're going to have to clean it up professionally, rebuild the hard drive with new components. Then we're going to read the data, byte by byte."
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Newport City Council is predicted to reconsider granting access to the landfill for hard drive recovery once the value of the Bitcoin on the hard drive reaches $1 billion.
"I believe that once the value of this hard drive reached a billion dollars, they would come to their senses and say, 'Okay, let's have a conversation and see if we can make this happen.'"
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James Howell plans to launch a new cryptocurrency called Kiocoin. It will have a total supply of 800 billion tokens, with each Kiocoin mirroring one Satoshi from his lost 8,000 Bitcoin wallet.
"So next is that I take the value from that wallet, which I legally own. I created it, and I transfer that to a new cryptocurrency called Kiocoin... So each of my Kiocoins, which there will be a total supply of 800 billion, will mirror one-to-one the number of Satoshis in my wallet address. 8,000 Bitcoins equals 800 billion Satoshis, individual units of account."
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Kiocoin is intended to be a utility token, functioning as a Bitcoin-focused DeFi Layer 2, aiming to bring DeFi functionality back to the Bitcoin blockchain.
"What I'm looking to do is create a utility token. I would like to bring a lot of the DeFi functionality that has been enabled by Ethereum, Solana, and many other blockchains back to the Bitcoin blockchain. So... So it's going to be a Bitcoin-focused DeFi Layer 2, if you will."
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James Howell commits to launching and actively working on, promoting, and being involved with the Kiocoin protocol for the next 20 years to benefit the Bitcoin community.
"I want to launch a protocol that I will work on for the next 20 years, that I will promote, that I will be involved with, that will be beneficial to the Bitcoin community as a whole."
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Kiocoin is predicted to launch in late 2025, with integrations planned for Stacks, Runes, and Ordinals.
"You're saying that it's going to be integrated with Stacks, Runes, and Ordinals, launching late 2025."
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