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Remember the guy who threw away over $750 million in Bitcoin? Now he wants to buy the dump where he thinks it's buried

James Howells continues his quest to recover a mistakenly trashed fortune.

Fortune

Man who chucked $750 million of bitcoin into a dump now wants to buy the whole dump

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Brit Who Lost £620M Bitcoin Fortune in Rubbish Blunder Now Wants to Buy the Landfill to Dig It Up

Man accidentally throws away a hard drive containing £620M in Bitcoin. After legal battles fail, he now aims to buy the landfill to search for it.

International Business Times UK

Man with £600m Bitcoin fortune ‘buried in landfill’ wants to buy tip his riches are lost in

James Howells’ former partner mistakenly dumped the hard drive in 2013

The Independent UK

Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site

A Welsh landfill site where 8,000 Bitcoins are thought to be buried will be repurposed, at least partly, into a solar farm - but the man who lost the haul has other plans.

Tom’s Hardware

Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill

James Howells lost case to force Newport city council to allow him to search for hard drive discarded by accident

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Man on hopeless quest to recover $600 million of Bitcoin from landfill is finally told by the High Court to quit it, says he's 'very upset'

"It's not about greed, I'm happy to share the proceeds but nobody in a position of power will have a decent conversation with me."

PC Gamer

High court ruling ends man's hopes of recovering $750M bitcoin hard drive from a Welsh landfill — hard drive storing 8,000 bitcoins was lost over 10 years ago

The legal arguments over $750M worth of Bitcoin buried in Welsh dump have come to an unhappy end for the man who lost his crypto HDD in the trash 12 years ago.

Tom’s Hardware

A UK man accidentally threw away a hard drive with $750 million in Bitcoin. A judge just said 'tough luck'.

Court says James Howells had “no realistic prospect of succeeding”.

Fortune

Bitcoin miner refused access to landfill site to retrieve £598m hard drive, judge rules

James Howells has been fighting Newport council after his former partner accidentally took the hard drive to the rubbish tip in 2013

The Independent UK

Judge halts attempt to retrieve £600m bitcoin wallet from Welsh dump

James Howells, 39, took council to court to try to force it to let him search site for hard drive thrown away by accident

The Guardian - UK

Man who lost £500 million bitcoin fortune to bin day is fighting for a chance to find it in court, after more than 10 years in a landfill

If I lost a hard drive worth £500 million, you can be sure I'd never, ever stop talking about it.

PC Gamer

Man has ‘finely tuned’ plan to find £500m bitcoin thrown in tip, Cardiff court told

James Howells seeking go-ahead to search for hard drive that was accidentally thrown into landfill in 2013

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International Business Times UK

Newport Woman Accidentally Discards Ex-Boyfriend's £627M Bitcoin Fortune In Landfill

Almost a decade ago, Halfina Eddy-Evans's ex-boyfriend asked her to dump his unwanted belongings in a tip site in Newport, Wales. The items included a hard drive with a passkey to 8,000 Bitcoins.

Fortune

Crypto miner fights to retrieve $749M Bitcoin fortune 'accidentally thrown in landfill'

"The treasure is getting more and more valuable by the day and that isn't going to stop," James Howells tells Fortune.

Tom’s Hardware

Man who lost half-billion dollar Bitcoin HDD sues local authority for $500 million for not letting him dig through landfill

A Welsh man whose partner accidentally threw out an HDD containing 8,000 Bitcoins has become increasingly desperate to recoup the lost treasure. Now, he is suing the council.

Latin Times

Man Accidentally Threw Away Bitcoin Hard Drive Worth $500 Million. Now He's Suing City for Refusing to Let Him Look for It in the Dump

A UK man is suing the city council for millions after being denied permission to excavate a landfill to find a hard drive containing Bitcoin worth over $500 million.

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The Independent UK

Robot dogs, AI and the plan to retrieve £165m crypto fortune lost in rubbish dump

James Howells has been embroiled in a decade-long battle to find his digital millions, Joe Middleton writes

Benzinga

Meet A Man On A Quest To Find About $180 Million In Bitcoin Buried In A Landfill

James Howells, a resident of Newport, South Wales, claims to have accidentally thrown away his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) in 2013 while cleaning his office. About a decade later, Howells is determined to do whatever it takes to get the piece of hardware back.

Daily Mirror

Man who lost £150m at dump says he'll give locals £50 if they let him find it

James Howells says he mistakenly threw out a hard drive containing £150million of Bitcoin - and wants to use robot dogs to search through the landfill site he thinks it is at

Input

U.K. man begs to excavate landfill after tossing $184M in bitcoin

James Howells decided to throw away a hard drive back in 2013, and 8,000 bitcoin with it.

Wales Online

Man who binned Bitcoin worth £200m assembles team he says can find it in landfill

James Howells has been battling for nearly a decade to be allowed to dig up a landfill site where the USB drive was tossed

The Guardian - UK

Man who threw away £150m in bitcoin hopes AI and robot dogs will get it back

Computer engineer who accidentally discarded hard drive consults Newport council over scheme

Daily Mirror

Crypto investor's bid to find '£149m of Bitcoin thrown in landfill' using robots

James Howells claims he threw away a hard drive by mistake in 2013 containing Bitcoin with a current value of £149 million, and he is hoping to search a Newport landfill site for it

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