Fred Thiel, CEO of MARA, discusses the impact of being debanked and shares insights on the digital currency industry, including President Trump’s ambitions for the U.S. to become the crypto capital. Meanwhile, James Howells is intensifying his quest to recover a hard drive containing a Bitcoin key worth approximately $800 million, which he mistakenly threw ...
James Howells, a computer engineer, believes his Bitcoin hard drive, worth nearly £600 million, is buried in a Newport landfill. The hard drive was accidentally thrown away by his former partner in 2013, and its value has skyrocketed since then. After a decade of trying to recover it, a High Court judge dismissed Howells’ attempt ...
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 ...
A Welsh landfill, believed to contain 8,000 lost Bitcoins, is set to become a solar farm after the local council caps the site in the 2025-26 financial year. The site’s original owner, James Howells, shocked by the news, is considering buying the landfill to recover his lost fortune. The Bitcoin, valued at over $780 million, ...
A father-of-three named James Howells is facing a tough situation as he battles to recover his lost £600 million worth of bitcoin, which accidentally ended up in a landfill. The trouble started when his partner mistakenly discarded a bag containing old computer parts, including the hard drive with the bitcoin data. Despite his legal efforts ...
James Howells, a computer engineer from Newport, is trying to reclaim £620 million worth of lost Bitcoin that he believes is buried in a landfill site. In 2013, he lost a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins when his ex-girlfriend mistakenly threw it away. Howells previously attempted to sue the Newport council for access to the ...
James Howells, a man who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins worth approximately $750 million, has faced a tough legal blow. After fighting for years to dig up the drive from a landfill, a judge has dismissed his case, leaving Howell feeling defeated and hopeless. He expressed deep disappointment about not even ...
James Howells, a man who lost a hard drive containing $750 million worth of Bitcoin in a Welsh dump, faced a setback when the British High Court dismissed his lawsuit against the local council. Howells claimed that council workers wouldn’t allow him to search for his lost HDD, which he accidentally discarded in 2013. However, ...
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 ...
