James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales, has lost his long-running legal battle to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin valued at over $750 million. 

The Newport City Council has consistently denied access to the landfill where the hard drive was accidentally discarded in 2013, citing environmental concerns. 

In the latest setback, Judge Keyser KC dismissed Howells’ case, ruling it had “no realistic prospect” of success at trial, according to a BBC report. 

Howells mined the Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009, when it cost mere pennies to do so, and stored it on a hard drive that was later mistakenly thrown away. 

Despite offering 10% of the recovered fortune to the council and the community, his proposals—including a £10 million (US$12.3 million) excavation plan funded by investors—were consistently rebuffed. 

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