"The council planning on closing the landfill so soon is quite a surprise, especially since it claimed at the High Court that closing the landfill to allow me to search would have a huge detrimental impact on the people of Newport, whilst at the same time they were planning to close the landfill anyway,” he told the BBC.
Man wants to buy landfill he believes his lost bitcoin fortune is buried in James Howells’ former partner mistakenly dumped the hard drive in 2013.
While the landfill in Newport in Wales holds more than 1.4 million tonnes of waste, Mr Howells said he had narrowed the Bitcoin wallet’s location to an area of 100,000 tonnes.
Mr Howells first began using Bitcoin during the late noughties shortly after its instigation and forgot about it when it was thrown out to the landfill.
A computer engineer who believes his Bitcoin hard drive worth nearly £600m is buried in a landfill is now considering buying the entire site to find it.
