News with the tag "james howells"

A British judge has rejected a Welsh IT worker’s bid to search a landfill for a discarded hard drive containing Bitcoin ( BTC ) worth over $600 million, ending a 12-year quest to recover the lost cryptocurrency. According to a new report from the BBC, James Howells lost the device containing 8,000 B...

Speaking to Cointelegraph, James Howells shares an update on his ongoing battle with legal and environmental challenges to recover a landfill hard drive containing $773M in lost Bitcoin.

James Howells’ $716 million Bitcoin fortune in a landfill has sparked legal battles, and his ex-partner now claims she followed his instructions to discard the hard drive.

James Howells has expressed his frustration with Newport City Council for refusing to allow him to retrieve a Bitcoin hard drive from a local landfill, pushing him to take legal action.

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...

James Howells sues council for blocking landfill excavation to retrieve a discarded hard drive with 8,000 Bitcoin. Damages sought: $647M.

James Howells continues his legal battle for 495 million British pounds ($647 million) in damages after Newport City Council blocked his landfill excavation request.

James Howells, who lost 8,000 Bitcoins in a landfill, intends to sue the city for not allowing him to excavate the site in search of his lost fortune. After a decade of attempting to obtain permission to recover his lost Bitcoin from the Newport City Council, James Howells has reached the authority ...

James Howells, a Welsh Bitcoin investor and the man who inadvertently lost $557 million worth of BTC in a flash drive is seeking to file a lawsuit against Newport City Council (NCC) in the United Kingdom for refusing his requests to excavate the area he presumed he misplaced the hard drive. Howells ...

A 38-year-old former IT professional, James Howells, is preparing for a legal battle against Newport City Council. The dispute revolves around a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, valued at approximately $194 million, based on today’s exchange rate, which was accidentally discarded in a landfill ...