?600m worth of Bitcoin with the trash has accepted for the first time it is 'game over' - after a judge threw out his bid to dig it up.James Howells has described his lost legal bid to recover the fortune as 'gut-wrenching' and said he will spend the rest of his life wondering what might have been.The 39-year-old launched had launched court action against a council that refused to let him excavate computer equipment needed to unlock his 8,000 Bitcoins - currently worth more than ?
?600million bitcoin fortune is set to close.. Father-of-three James Howells, 39, lost the 8,000 bitcoins when his partner threw out a black bag containing old computer parts - including the hard drive where it was stored.
Pictured here is James Howells during the court case WALES NEWS SERVICE] But Howells has said that Newport Council has backed down on what it previously cited as a reason for not allowing him to search the tip.
Man wants to buy tip where he thinks his lost £620,000,000 Bitcoin is buried A man who accidentally binned a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin tokens more than a decade ago is hoping to buy the tip where he lost his fortune.
He said: ‘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.
