James Howells is considering buying a council dump in south Wales after his former partner accidentally threw away a hard drive containing his bitcoin wallet. Howells has already lost a high court ...

James Howells threw away a hard disk containing some 8,000 bitcoins, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Who will find these bitcoins first?

A crypto expert has launched the first round of his legal battle to retrieve a £500million fortune of bitcoin accidentally thrown into a rubbish dump. Father-of-three James Howells has lodged a ...

Now, in a beyond-last-ditch effort to recover his long-lost crypto wallet ... Howells decided to try to find the hard drive when Bitcoin started to gain in value — only to discover that his ...

The council has also ruled that out. But even if he was allowed to send in diggers and they managed to find the hard drive buried under years of garbage, could the digital key be recovered? HOWELLS: ...

What Happened: A U.K. waste expert said the chances of recovering a lost hard drive containing 7,500 BTC from a Newport landfill are 1 in 902 million, essentially zero, due to the landfill's ...

Man wants to search dump for lost hard drive with bitcoin fortune: Here are his odds of finding it But would it even be possible to find it? Let’s do the maths.

The council has also ruled that out. But even if he was allowed to send in diggers and they managed to find the hard drive buried under years of garbage, could the digital key be recovered?

A British man who claims his $700 million worth of Bitcoin is buried in landfill in Wales now says he hopes to buy the site to search for his hard drive, which was dumped more than a decade ago.