Bitcoin miner refused access to landfill site to retrieve £598m hard drive, judge rules

James Howells outside the landfill site where he believes his hard drive full of cryptocurrency belongs - (James Howells)

A man’s bid to sue a council over his attempts to excavate a rubbish tip to find a Bitcoin hard drive worth nearly £600m has had his case thrown out of court by a judge.

James Howells says his former partner had mistakenly dumped the hard drive in 2013, only for it to increase in value over the last year to be now worth an estimated £598m.