He’s About to Buy a Landfill with $800 Million Worth of Trash – You Won’t Believe Why! – Knowhere News

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He’s About to Buy a Landfill with $800 Million Worth of Trash – You Won’t Believe Why! – Knowhere News

According to recent reports, a man who lost $800 million in Bitcoin wants to purchase the rubbish dump. According to James Howells, who unintentionally tossed away the hard drive in 2013, it contains the key to over $800 million in bitcoin that is hidden deep beneath layers of old trash at a landfill in Wales. After years of battling the local government in court to reclaim the hard drive, Howells has now come up with a new plan: he will just pu…

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Man Who Lost $800 Million In Bitcoin In Landfill Wants to Buy the Garbage Dump

Imagine you own nearly $800 million in Bitcoin and one day you accidentally threw away a hard drive containing the necessary information you need to access your million. That’s what happened to a British man named James Howells. Now Howells is still trying to find his hard drive, and he thinks it in a landfill. So Howells’ solution? Buy the landfill. Photo by Photo By: Kaboompics.com: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-shot-of-a-bitcoin-burie…

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James Howells: The man hoping to buy a rubbish dump in his search for £750m of bitcoin

In 2013, James Howells’ ex-partner threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins, now worth in excess of £750m. Having pleaded with – and sued – Newport council to let him comb through the rubbish dump where he believes it’s located, he is now considering a radical new option: buying the landfill. IT-worker James Howells insists it isn’t just about the money. Recovering the 8,000 coins from a hard drive that his ex-partner mistakenly took to…

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Man in yearslong battle to retrieve lost Bitcoin hard drive worth around $800 million offers to buy landfill

James Howells, a computer science analyst, is intensifying his efforts to recover a hard drive he accidentally discarded in 2013, which contains a Bitcoin wallet now worth approximately $800 million. After years of unsuccessful pleas to the Newport City Council…

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For more than ten years, James Howells, a 39-year-old Welsh computer scientist, has been stirring up sky and earth to find a digital treasure. His Grail? A hard drive mistakenly thrown in 2013, containing 8,000 bitcoins, now estimated at almost $800,000 million.

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Now James Howells (39) is considering buying the landfill to search for the hard drive that was accidentally thrown away in 2013.