• James Howells claims to have misplaced a tough drive with 8,000 BTC at a landfill website in 2013.
• The person now desires to purchase the landfill website because the seek for the misplaced BTC price over $784 million continues.

James Howells, the person who has been in the hunt for his misplaced bitcoin price over $784 million since 2013 is looking for to purchase a landfill.

Howell claims to have mistakenly discarded a tough drive that contained 8,000 BTC and is looking for to purchase the landfill website the place he misplaced it in an try to get well his fortune.

The person filed a lawsuit in a bid to have the Newport Council dig up the landfill to attempt to discover the misplaced bitcoin.  In over 10 years Newport Council has made no makes an attempt to attempt to get well the discarded bitcoin.

The search for misplaced BTC

James Howells reported that his fiance discarded the onerous drive containing cryptocurrency estimated to have a market worth of $784 million within the landfill website in 2013. In an try to get his crypto property again, Howells desires to purchase the landfill website.

BBC just lately reported that Howells has approached varied buyers with a bid to doubtlessly purchase the entire landfill website.

Since 2013, Howells claims that Newport metropolis council have disregarded his plea to be allowed to seek for his fortune. The town council has introduced plans to have the landfill website transformed to a photo voltaic farm. They’ve since acquired planning permission to determine a solar energy agency on the positioning.

Howells had filed a lawsuit towards the council looking for authorized grounds to hunt for the by chance discarded bitcoin. In January, a excessive courtroom choose made a ruling dismissing the case that required Newport council to forcefully enable Howells to seek for his bitcoin.

James Howells threw away $750 million of bitcoin by chance a decade in the past and has been attempting to get well the onerous drive from a landfill ever since. At this time, a choose has rejected his newest try to look via 110,000 tons of rubbish for his digital gold. pic.twitter.com/douIDzDdQO

— Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) January 11, 2025

Through the listening to, Howells famous that Newport council claimed that granting him a search warrant would have detrimental results on the folks round Newport. Plans to shut the landfill have been additionally underway, and that will be quickly.

After failed makes an attempt to have the council retrieve the onerous drive price hundreds of thousands for him, Howells provided to purchase the entire landfill.

“I have discussed this option recently with investment partners and it is very much on the table,” he stated, based on the BBC.