A man trying to recover a hard drive containing $750 million of bitcoin from a landfill just had his latest bid rejected.
James Howells discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013.
He has been fighting for access to a local landfill to search for it for a decade.
This week, a judge struck down his latest attempt to search for the bitcoin, worth over $750 million.
A British man's yearslong attempts to find a hard drive containing around $750 million of bitcoin in a landfill site have been hit with a fresh setback.
James Howells, 39, launched a legal bid to force Newport City Council in southern Wales to let him search the local dump where he believes the fortune is located. This week, a judge rejected that bid.
Howells says that in 2013, he accidentally discarded a laptop hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in a garbage bag, which ended up at the landfill site. He says he mistook the hard drive for another identical drive he owned, which was blank.
James Howells discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013.
He has been fighting for access to a local landfill to search for it for a decade.
This week, a judge struck down his latest attempt to search for the bitcoin, worth over $750 million.
A British man's yearslong attempts to find a hard drive containing around $750 million of bitcoin in a landfill site have been hit with a fresh setback.
James Howells, 39, launched a legal bid to force Newport City Council in southern Wales to let him search the local dump where he believes the fortune is located. This week, a judge rejected that bid.
Howells says that in 2013, he accidentally discarded a laptop hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in a garbage bag, which ended up at the landfill site. He says he mistook the hard drive for another identical drive he owned, which was blank.
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