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Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins

James Howells believes a hard drive buried in Docksway Landfill contains nearly $800 million in bitcoin after accidentally discarding it in 2013.
Howells has attempted to gain access to the landfill and previously offered Newport City Council over $70 million in 2021.
A British High Court judge dismissed Howells' case, stating his ownership of the bitcoins ended when the hard drive was discarded.
Newport City Council plans to close the landfill in the 2025/26 financial year and has not entertained Howells' recent offer to buy the site.

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Man accidentally dropped a disk with $800 million in bitcoin and is looking to get it back by buying a London dumpster

Issy Ronald, CNN Buried in a landfill in Wales, beneath layers of years-old trash, is a hard drive that holds the key to nearly $800 million worth of bitcoin — or at least that’s what James Howells believes, after he accidentally dumped the drive in 2013. And now, after years of battling in court with the local authority to get the hard drive back, Howells has come up with a new plan: simply buy the landfill. “I’m considering buying a landfill s…

8 days ago·Panama City, United States

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Investing.com

British man willing to buy entire landfill in bid to recover $800M in Bitcoin - Business Fast

British man willing to buy entire landfill in bid to recover $800M in Bitcoin READ SOURCE

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CTV News

Man who lost US$800 million bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost US$800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after accidentally throwing the drive away in 2013.

8 days ago·Canada

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Ars Technica

Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins

Bid from man tortured by trashed bitcoins seems unlikely to sway city council.

8 days ago·United States

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CNN

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Man who lost $800 million bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after accidentally throwing the drive away in 2013.

9 days ago·Atlanta, United States

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Hawaii Tribune-Herald

In yearslong search for lost bitcoin, a final proposal: let me buy the landfill - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

What James Howells wants to do is, by his account, simple: buy a landfill, excavate tens of thousands of tons of trash, cart every piece by dump truck to a scanner with AI-trained detection technology, install a backup magnetic belt to pick up any lingering metallic objects and, thus, find the long-lost hard drive that contains his mistakenly discarded bitcoin key, worth somewhere around $800 million.

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