James Howells, who lost a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins in a landfill more than a decade ago, is now in a legal battle to recover it. The bitcoins are currently valued at around £500 million, prompting Howells to sue Newport City Council, which claims that anything in the landfill belongs to them. Howells asserts ...
A UK man named James Howells is attempting to sue his local council for access to a buried hard drive that he claims contains a Bitcoin wallet worth £600 million (over $1.1 billion). Howell’s girlfriend accidentally discarded the hard drive in 2013, which ended up in a landfill managed by Newport County authorities in Wales. ...
A man from the UK is suing his local council over a Bitcoin hard drive that was buried in a landfill more than ten years ago. James Howells believes the Bitcoin wallet could now be worth £600 million, or over $1.1 billion. He claims that his girlfriend accidentally threw out the hard drive in 2013. ...
James Howells, a man from Newport, is in court trying to recover a hard drive containing Bitcoin worth around £600 million, which he claims was mistakenly thrown away by his ex-partner and is now buried in a landfill. He has alleged that the council is refusing him access to the site and is seeking either ...
James Howells, a software engineer, is known for accidentally losing a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins, now worth over $760 million. In a recent interview, his ex-girlfriend, Halfina Eddy-Evans, revealed that she tossed the hard drive at Howells’ request while clearing out unwanted items. She insisted she wasn’t to blame for the loss, hoping Howells ...
James Howells is known for one of the biggest Bitcoin losses in history, having accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins, now worth around $760 million. Recently, his ex-girlfriend, Halfina Eddy-Evans, revealed that she was the one who discarded it at his request. In a recent interview, she shared that Howells asked her ...
