Upon hearing the judge\u2019s decision, Howells said \u201cit\u2019s the great British justice system striking again\u201d
\nHowells lost his hard drive in 2013 when it was accidentally thrown away at the tip
\nHe has been trying to engage with Newport City Council for 12 years to recover his hard drive, but says he\u2019s been \u201clargely ignored\u201d<\/p>\n
James Howells has lost his case to recover a lost Bitcoin hard drive from a Welsh landfill that\u2019s now worth around $740 million.<\/p>\n
Howells accidentally threw out his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin<\/a> in 2013 during a household clearout. At the time, he had two hard drives of the same size: one was blank while the other contained his Bitcoin.<\/p>\n He mistakenly put the one containing the Bitcoin into a black bin bag, which his then-girlfriend took to the tip. At the time of his loss, his assets \u2013 that he mined in 2009 \u2013 were worth around $1.3 million.<\/p>\n In October, Howells sued Newport City Council<\/a> for $646 million in damages after being denied access to the landfill due to environmental concerns.<\/p>\n Now, Judge Keyser KC, the Circuit Commercial Judge for Wales, has dismissed Howells\u2019 case, stating that there are no \u201creasonable grounds\u201d for succeeding at a full trial, reports the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n Upon hearing the decision, Howells said he was \u201cvery upset,\u201d adding \u201cit\u2019s the great British justice system striking again.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the past 12 years, Howells said he has been trying to engage with Newport City Council to recover his lost hard drive, but has been \u201clargely ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n A court filing states Howells hard drive is located in Cell 2, Area 2 of the Docksway landfill. Yet, despite promises to safely excavate the Newport site and to modernize the landfill, the council have rejected Howells\u2019 requests to dig due to \u201cenvironmental concerns<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Howells\u2019 lawyers claim that the council have \u201csimply ignored\u201d that 10% of Bitcoin could bring \u201ca huge and desperately needed investment in the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n The judge\u2019s decision comes as Bitcoin soared past $100,000<\/a> for the first time at the beginning of December, pushing to an all-time high of more than $108,000.<\/p>\n The post UK judge says there\u2019s no \u201creasonable grounds\u201d for success with Bitcoin landfill hard drive case<\/a> appeared first on CoinJournal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Upon hearing the judge\u2019s decision, Howells said \u201cit\u2019s the great British justice system striking again\u201d Howells lost his hard drive in 2013 when it was accidentally thrown away at the tip He has been trying to engage with Newport City Council for 12 years to recover his hard drive, but says he\u2019s been \u201clargely ignored\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A 12-year battle<\/h2>\n