Owner of 7,500 ‘junk’ BTC demands $647 million in compensation from Newport authorities
A resident of the British city of Newport, James Howells, has filed a lawsuit against the local city council, demanding $647 million from it for refusing to dig up a garbage dump to find a lost hard drive containing 7,500 BTC. James Howells was forced to resort to legal action because he has been unsuccessfully trying for more than a decade to get permission from the local government to dig up his hard drive with…
