James Howells has expressed his frustration with Newport City Council for refusing to allow him to retrieve a Bitcoin hard drive from a local landfill, pushing him to take legal action.
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James Howells is suing Newport City Council after a decade-long fight to recover a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, now worth nearly $500 million, mistakenly dumped in 2013. The council has repeatedly denied excavation requests, citing environmental concerns. Howells claims the data is recoverable. Council Sued Over Lost $500M Bitcoin Hard Drive James Howells, an […]
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James Howells continues his legal battle for 495 million British pounds ($647 million) in damages after Newport City Council blocked his landfill excavation request.
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Imagine that you had over US$100 million worth of Bitcoin rotting away in a landfill and there was nothing you could do about it. Welcome to the world of James Howells, a Welsh IT worker who threw away a hard drive containing Bitcoin he’d mined back in 2009. The Newport South Wales City Council has repeatedly denied his requests to commence digging operations in the trash heap for his treasure trove of digital gold. One Man’s Treasure Is Literally Trash “You know when you put something in the bin, and in your head, say to yourself ‘that’s a bad idea’?” James Howells rhetorically
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