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Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin
Hard drive that could provide access to 8,000 bitcoins is buried at the dump.
The council said that excavating the landfill site would let harmful substances escape into the environment, endangering residents with "potentially serious risks which raises public health issues and environmental concerns," the ruling said. "The claimant then set about securing investment and expertise to enable a team of experts to undertake a landfill excavation and recovery operation and in 2023 he began to advance his case formally to the defendant." The 2021 CNN report quoted Howells as saying he wanted to "dig a specific area of the landfill based on a grid reference system and recover the hard drive whilst adhering to all safety and environmental standards.
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