A British Man is Considering Buying a Landfill Site to Recover a Hard Drive Containing 8000 Bitcoins

BlockBeats News, February 10th. According to The Guardian, IT engineer James Howells from Newport, UK, has spent ten years trying to find what he believes to be a £6 billion Bitcoin fortune buried in a municipal landfill in southern Wales. He is now considering buying the site to search for the missing wealth.

James Howells lost his appeal last month in the UK High Court, failing to compel Newport City Council to allow him to search the landfill for the hard drive containing what he claims to be 8,000 bitcoins.

Subsequently, the UK council announced plans to close and cap the site, which would almost certainly end any hopes of recovering the bitcoins. The council has obtained planning permission to build a solar power station on part of the land.

Howells, 39, said on Monday that he was "pretty surprised" to learn of this closure plan. He said, "The council argued in the High Court that allowing me to search the landfill would have a huge detrimental impact on Newport residents, but at the same time, they have plans to close the landfill."

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