James Howells lost his court battle against Newport City Council in January
\nThe judge ruled that there were \u201cno reasonable grounds\u201d for succeeding at a full trial
\nToday, Howells\u2019 Bitcoin would be worth around $780 million<\/p>\n
A UK landfill site where a man lost his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin is reportedly set to close in the 2025-26 financial year.<\/p>\n
The site, in Newport, Wales, \u201chas been in exploitation since the early 2000s and is coming to the end of its life, therefore the council is working on a planned closure and capping of the site over the next two years,\u201d said a council spokesperson.<\/p>\n
According to the BBC<\/a>, a solar farm will be built on part of the site after it received planning permission last August.<\/p>\n In January, James Howells lost his court battle<\/a> against Newport City Council to recover his lost hard drive. In 2013, his former partner mistakenly threw it out in a black bin bag.\u00a0 Judge Keyser KC, the Circuit Commercial Judge for Wales, dismissed Howells\u2019 case. At the time, Keyser stated there were no \u201creasonable grounds\u201d for succeeding at a full trial.<\/p>\n Over the last 12 years, Howells tried to engage with Newport City Council to recover his lost hard drive, but was \u201clargely ignored<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n At the time of his loss, his assets \u2013 that he mined in 2009 \u2013 were worth around $1.3 million. Today, they would be valued at over $780 million.<\/p>\n The post Bitcoin hard drive containing $780m lost forever as UK landfill site is set to close<\/a> appeared first on CoinJournal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Howells lost his court battle against Newport City Council in January The judge ruled that there were \u201cno reasonable grounds\u201d for succeeding at a full trial Today, Howells\u2019 Bitcoin would be worth around $780 million A UK landfill site where a man lost his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin is reportedly set to close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2473,"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-2472","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\/2472","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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lost battle<\/h2>\n