James Howells, a computer engineer from Newport, Wales, is embroiled in a legal dispute with the local council over access to a landfill where he claims a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins is buried. Now worth approximately £600 million (€781 million), the bitcoins were mistakenly discarded in 2013. Howells is seeking either access to the … Continue reading British Bitcoin Miner Battles Newport Council for Access to £600m Landfill Treasure