{"id":6901,"date":"2025-01-09T19:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:47:17","slug":"man-who-accidentally-threw-away-8000-bitcoin-hard-drive-suffers-new-kick-in-the-teeth-as-uk-court-dismisses-his-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Accidentally Threw Away 8,000 Bitcoin Hard Drive Suffers New &#8216;Kick In The Teeth&#8217; As UK Court Dismisses His Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>James Howells<\/strong>, who is infamously known for having accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 8,000 <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), has suffered a new setback in his quest to <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\">reclaim his fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> A high court ruling by Judge Keyser KC has dismissed James Howells\u2019 legal claim to recover the hard drive, citing no \u201creasonable grounds\u201d for bringing the claim and \u201cno realistic prospect\u201d of winning it.<\/p>\n<p>Howells, who had sued the Newport City Council in Wales over the case, said he was \u201cvery upset\u201d after the ruling, saying \u201cit\u2019s the great British injustice system &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/42901382\/man-who-accidentally-threw-away-8000-bitcoin-hard-drive-suffers-new-kick-in-the-teeth-as-u\" alt=\"Man\" who accidentally threw away bitcoin hard drive suffers new in the teeth as uk court dismisses his claim>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Howells, who is infamously known for having accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), has suffered a new setback in his quest to reclaim his fortune. What Happened: A high court ruling by Judge Keyser KC has dismissed James Howells\u2019 legal claim to recover the hard drive, citing no \u201creasonable [&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-6901","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\/6901","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=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}