Its ex ousted 700 million in garbage bitcoins. Now you want to buy the landfill where the record is

After being prevented from looking for the hard drive that his ex-girlfriend laid the trash, James Howells now wants to buy the landfill to try to recover the fortune in bitcoins.

A man who claims to have lost a fortune in bitcoins In a landfill is now considering the possibility of buying the site before it is permanently closed, in a last effort to regain its digital wealth.

James Howells, a 39-year-old Newport engineer in the southern Wales, claims that his ex-girlfriend was mistakenly laid out a hard drive with thousands of bitcoins in 2013. With the increase in the value of Bitcoin over the course of Bitcoin of the years, lost cryptocurrencies should be worth now more than 700 million euros. Despite years of effort to gain access to the landfill, their attempts were unsuccessful.

Several media reported on Monday that Howells is now exploring the possibility of buy the landfill itself. Newport City Council, which supervises the landfill, is planning to end it in the fiscal year of 2025-26. This closing would probably mark the end of any hypothesis of recovering the missing hard drive.

Howells expressed his surprise with the board’s plans, stating that although he predicted the closure of the landfill due to the fact that he was almost full, he did not expect it to happen anytime soon, it refers to.

The engineer also stressed an apparent contradiction in the reasoning of the House, saying that during a Recent Legal Battlethe House argued that the closing of the site for him to look for the album would “have a huge negative impact on the population of Newport, while planning to close the landfill in any way.”

Last month, a judge rejected the legal process of Howells, who intended to obtain authorization to research the landfill or a compensation of 495 million pounds. Judge Keyser KC decided that his request had no “any realistic successful perspective” in court.

Despite this setback, Howells remains determined and has revealed that he has discussed the potential purchase of landfill with investment partners and is seriously considering making an offer. “If the Newport City Council was willing, I would be potentially interested in buy the landfill ‘as it is’”He said.

Newport City Council was contacted to comment on the matter, but no response has yet been given.