Man narrows landfill search for $771 million Bitcoin hard drive with "finely tuned" plan

Man narrows landfill search for $771 million Bitcoin hard drive with "finely tuned" plan

In 2013, Howells had two 2.5-inch hard drives stored in a drawer, one of which he intended to get rid of and another that had a digital...

Hard Drive Tossed in Landfill With Bitcoin Now Worth $8 Billion. Lawsuits Continue

11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It's now worth $8 billion... and James Howell wants it back. The Guardian reports that his "bid to become extremely rich reached a judge on Tuesday with a team of lawyers arguing that it was still possible to launch a hunt for his missing hard drive containing the bitcoin." They claimed that rather than searching for a "needle in a haystack", the position of the bitco…