Inside the landfill hiding £1.5bn in Bitcoin that council bosses won't let treasure hunters dig up
Early crypto investor James Howells, 38, made the calamitous mistake of accidentally throwing away 8,000 Bitcoins ten years ago.
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Early crypto investor James Howells, 38, made the calamitous mistake of accidentally throwing away 8,000 Bitcoins ten years ago.
Early crypto investor James Howells made the mistake of accidentally throwing 8,000 Bitcoins away more than ten years ago.
The giant landfill site is guarded around the clock with a network of high-tech video cameras to keep those eager to try their luck with metal detectors on the outside
Newport City Council says it has told James Howells multiple times he won't be able to excavate at the landfill site, but the dad is determined on retrieving the device containing Bitcoin
James Howells could bankrupt Newport City Council, he says, following his 10-year battle with the Labour-controlled authority to retrieve a hard drive thought to have been chucked in a tip