Man wants to buy tip where he lost bitcoin luck

A computer engineer who lost £ 620m-the price of bitcoin wants to buy the tip where he believes it was buried.

James Howels claimed from Newport His ex -girlfriend accidentally evacuated a hard drive In 2013, containing 8,000 bitcoins.

He tried to sue the city council to reach the site on Newuport’s dock, or received £ 495M in compensation, but His case was rejected by a judge,

The Newport Council said it was not commenting on the matter.

Is authority Plan to close tip 2025-26 in the financial year.

Its land is allowed to plan for a solar farm, which expects the council to strengthen new bin laws.

Mr. Hells said: “The council’s plan to shut down the landfill is quite surprised so soon, especially when it was claimed in the High Court that the people of Newoport to allow me to find me to close the landfill. There will be a very harmful effect, while at the same time they were planning to close the landfill anyway. “

The landfill has more than 1.4m ton of garbage.

Mr. Hells believes that the hard drive is in an area of ​​100,000 tonnes.

“I would likely be interested in buying a landfill site,” he said.

“I have recently discussed this option with investment partners and this is very high in the table.”

Mr. Havels also wants to appeal to the judge’s decision to throw his case out.

The judge said that there were no basis for the claims of succeeding in the test and “no realistic possibility”.

He said that a lot of time had passed between losing hard drives and bringing the claim.

Bitcoin is often described as a cryptocurrency, a virtual posture or a digital currency and is a type of money that is completely virtual – no physical coins or notes.

You can use it to buy products and services, but many shops do not accept bitcoin.

In China, this trade or mine is illegal for bitcoin and its use is banned in countries including Saudi Arabia and Qatar.