PANews reported on October 12 that according to Cointelegraph, James Howells, an IT engineer in Newport, UK, accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins. He had tried many times to retrieve the drive from the local landfill, but was resisted by the parliament, which repeatedly rejected his request to excavate the site. Therefore, he filed a lawsuit against the Newport City Council in the UK, demanding compensation of 495 million pounds (about 647 million US dollars).
James Howells has been trying to recover the lost hard drive for more than a decade. Although James Howells said that if the hard drive is found, it will offer the city council a 10% reward, but the Newport City Council has always opposed the excavation request on the grounds of environmental issues. James Howells has assembled a team of legal experts to take the case to court, which is expected to be heard in December.
