A man’s effort to get permission to search a landfill in the UK for his lost hard drive, which holds the keys to 8,000 Bitcoin, has been denied by the UK Court of Appeals. James Howells expressed his disappointment on social media, criticizing the justice system and stating he plans to take his case to ...
James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer, is contemplating purchasing a landfill in South Wales to search for a lost hard drive that contains his bitcoin wallet, potentially worth £600 million. After losing a high court case for access to the site, Howell’s chances of finding the hard drive among 1.4 billion kg of waste are ...
James Howells, a computer engineer, believes his Bitcoin hard drive, worth nearly £600 million, is buried in a Newport landfill after it was mistakenly thrown away in 2013. Over the past decade, he has fought to recover it but recently lost a legal battle against the local council, which plans to close the landfill by ...
James Howells, a 39-year-old computer engineer, accidentally tossed a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins, worth about £620 million, while cleaning up old computer parts. His partner mistakenly disposed of a black bag that included the hard drive at a Newport landfill. Despite launching a legal battle to search the dump, a judge ruled against him, ...
James Howells, a father of three, is determined to recover £620 million worth of bitcoins he accidentally threw away. The lost bitcoin was stored on a hard drive that went to a landfill after his partner discarded a bag of old computer parts. Despite his legal efforts to search the council-owned dump, a judge recently ...
