{"id":1086,"date":"2024-10-14T09:48:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:48:34","slug":"man-who-accidentally-threw-hard-drive-containing-8000-bitcoins-worth-half-a-billion-dollars-in-landfill-sues-local-city-council-for-not-excavating-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Accidentally Threw Hard Drive Containing 8,000 Bitcoins Worth Half A Billion Dollars In Landfill Sues Local City Council For Not Excavating The Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>James Howells<\/strong>, etched in the history books for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/22\/08\/28706518\/meet-a-man-on-a-quest-to-find-about-180-million-in-bitcoin-buried-in-a-landfill\">accidentally discarding<\/a> <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), which is worth more than half a billion dollars today, took a major step in retrieving them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: In a last-ditch effort, the Wales-based software engineer filed a lawsuit against Newport City Council for roughly 495.31 million British pounds, or about $647 million, in damages for repeatedly denying his request to excavate the landfill site housing the discarded hard drive, which contains around 8,000 units of Bitcoin, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/im-suing-council-495m-because-30106009\">reported<\/a> by WalesOnline.<\/p>\n<p>Howells explained that the lawsuit is a strategy to convince the council &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41308908\/man-who-accidentally-threw-hard-drive-containing-8-000-bitcoins-worth-half-a-billion-dolla\" alt=\"Man\" who accidentally threw hard drive containing bitcoins worth half a billion dollars in landfill sues local city council for not excavating the site>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Howells, etched in the history books for accidentally discarding Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), which is worth more than half a billion dollars today, took a major step in retrieving them. What Happened: In a last-ditch effort, the Wales-based software engineer filed a lawsuit against Newport City Council for roughly 495.31 million British pounds, or about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}