News with the tag "hard drive"

A hard drive owner who misplaced his massive trove of Bitcoin ( BTC ) in a UK landfill years ago is now considering purchasing the dumping ground as a means of recovering his funds. According to a new report by CNN, James Howells – a Welsh man who lost his Bitcoin stash worth a staggering $800 milli...

The hard drive containing over 8,000 Bitcoin was mistakenly disposed of in a landfill in 2013.

A UK man is reportedly suing his city council for hundreds of millions of dollars for not allowing him to dig up his old hard drive containing Bitcoin (BTC) from a landfill. According to a new report by WalesOnline, James Howells has filed a $647 million lawsuit against the City Council of Newport f...

James Howells is suing Newport City Council after a decade-long fight to recover a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, now worth nearly $500 million, mistakenly dumped in 2013. The council has repeatedly denied excavation requests, citing environmental concerns. Howells claims the data is recovera...

An AI analysis has underscored the improbable nature of James Howells’ quest to retrieve his lost Bitcoin fortune, estimated at £275 million, from a landfill site. Howells, who inadvertently discarded an iPhone-sized hard drive containing the cryptocurrency ten years ago, has persistently urged Newp...

James Howells, a bitcoin enthusiast who misplaced 7,500 bitcoin (BTC) in a South Wales landfill, is gearing up to take legal action against the local city council for barring his efforts to unearth the missing hard drive from 2013. This former IT professional, now 38, has been at odds with Newport C...