Wales Court Bars Man From Recovering $770 Million in Bitcoin from Landfill

James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer from Newport who lost his Bitcoin hard drive in a landfill in 2013, lost his legal battle today to access the site to recover the cryptocurrency.  The hard drive, which held 8,000 Bitcoin mined in 2009, is now worth over $770 million. The judge dismissed the case, citing “no realistic prospect” of succeeding at a full trial.  A Series of Unfortunate... source: https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-landfill-recovery-lawsuit-wales/