US EditionMan Who Lost Bitcoin Fortune in Landfill Considers Buying the Site
- The council expects to lose nearly £1 million from the landfill site closure, particularly £777,000 next year and £198,000 the following year.
- The landfill site has been involved in a dispute over a hard drive containing Bitcoin, but a judge dismissed the owner's lawsuit against the council.
- The council plans to close the landfill site in the 2025/26 financial year and has received planning permission for a solar farm on the land.
- James Howells, who believes his lost hard drive is buried there, expressed surprise at the closure and is considering purchasing the site.
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Lost bitcoin hard drive unrecovered
An IT worker is considering buying a council owned tip in Wales where he thinks his Bitcoin fortune is buried. James Howells wishes to search through the rubbish in Newport Household Waste Recycling Centre for his lost hard drive which contains around 8,000 bitcoins. Howells has been attempting to gain permission to hunt the tip for the cryptocurrency worth £620m (€744m) since 2013… Source
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