Brit Bitcoin miner weighs buying landfill to recover $768m
James Howells is considering buying a public landfill where he claims a massive Bitcoin fortune might be buried, but local authorities plan to shut down the site after a court battle. Despite a court dismissal last month, early Bitcoin (BTC) miner James Howells is considering purchasing the landfill where he believes his lost cryptocurrency, now […]
UK landfill site containing $768M Bitcoin hard drive to close: Report
A Wales landfill site where a hard drive purportedly containing 8,000 Bitcoin is buried is set to shutter. Source link
8,000 BTC Buried in the Landfill and Other Horror Stories of the Lost Coins
A girlfriend of the British man accidentally threw away his hard disk with roughly 8,000 bitcoins on it in 2013. The years of legal battle for the right to retrieve the disk from the waste dump resulted in nothing. These and four other stories remind us to treat our crypto assets with caution. How not […]
Judge rejects man from retrieving Bitcoin from landfill
A decade-long legal battle over a lost Bitcoin fortune has ended in disappointment for James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales. A Cardiff High Court has dismissed Howells’ lawsuit against Newport City Council, according to the BBC, refusing him access to a landfill containing a discarded hard drive holding 8,000 Bitcoins. The hard drive, […]
UK Judge dismisses $770M Bitcoin landfill hard drive case
The hard drive containing over 8,000 Bitcoin was mistakenly disposed of in a landfill in 2013. Source link
