UK Man Sues Council for $647 Million in Damages After Losing Bitcoin in Landfill Site

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An IT engineer from Newport, England, James Howells, is suing the city council of Newport, England, for £495 million ($647 million) in damages after accidentally discarding a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins into a landfill site, Cointelegraph reported on October 12th.

The man is said to have made several attempts to retrieve the hard drive from a local landfill site, but was met with resistance from the city council, which repeatedly denied his requests to excavate the site.

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