James Howells
James Howells is a computer expert from the UK who has been embroiled in a prolonged legal battle to recover a £600 million fortune in bitcoin that he believes is buried in a landfill site in Newport, Wales. In 2013, he accidentally discarded a hard drive containing his bitcoin wallet, which was mistaken for rubbish and taken to the dump. Despite his repeated requests to the Newport city council for permission to search the landfill, he has faced ongoing resistance, culminating in a recent high court ruling against him. Following the council's announcement to close and cap the landfill, Howells is now considering purchasing the site in hopes of recovering his lost fortune.
Born on Jan 01, 1984 (41 years old)
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Bangladesh:
James Howells is desperate to buy a landfill site to recover a hard drive he accidentally lost.
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Kazakhstan:
James Howells is an IT specialist who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013.
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Ecuador:
James Howells is determined to recover a hard drive containing $783 million in bitcoins that his ex-girlfriend accidentally threw away.
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Bolivia:
James Howells is determined to recover a hard drive containing Bitcoins valued at $783 million that his ex-girlfriend accidentally threw away.
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Luxembourg:
James Howells began mining Bitcoin on his laptop in 2009 and lost a hard drive containing 7,500 Bitcoins when his girlfriend discarded it.
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Croatia:
James Howells has been trying for over a decade to recover a hard drive containing bitcoin worth hundreds of millions of pounds that was accidentally thrown away by his ex-partner.
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Croatia:
James Howells has been trying for over a decade to recover a hard drive containing bitcoin worth hundreds of millions of pounds that was accidentally thrown away by his ex-partner.
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United Kingdom:
James Howells is determined to retrieve his hard drive containing Bitcoin worth £620m that ended up in a landfill.
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United States:
James Howells has begged and pleaded with the Newport City Council to gain access to the mountains of waste to find the hard drive that was accidentally thrown away in 2013.
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United States:
James Howells believes there is a hard drive buried in a Welsh landfill that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin.
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