Howells loses battle to recover $770M Bitcoin hard drive from landfillJames Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales, lost his 12-year legal battle to access a landfill where he believes a hard drive containing over $770 million worth of Bitcoin is buried. The hard drive was discarded by Howells in 2013 while holding 8,000 Bitcoin mined in 2009. While the court acknowledged Howells’ ownership of the Bitcoin on the hard drive, it ruled against granting access to the landfill. Among the items was a hard drive that contained 8,000 Bitcoin, which Howells mined in 2009 when the cryptocurrency was worth less than $1 per coin. Eddy-Evans claims that the loss of the hard drive wasn’t her fault, as she acted under Howells’ instructions at the time.