James Howells has been trying to gain access to a landfill site for the past decade, where he believes his hard drive containing a bitcoin fortune is.

A UK judge ruled against a man who was hoping to retrieve a Bitcoin-laden hard drive from a city dump. That wallet today, the owner says, is worth nearly $750 million and could be worth $1 billion next year.

A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of bitcoins was mistakenly dumped over 11 years ago. Since 2013, James Howells has been hoping to recover a laptop hard drive that he says contains the private key for cryptocurrency which he says he mined in 2009.

The legal arguments over $750M worth of Bitcoin buried in Welsh dump have come to an unhappy end for the man who lost his crypto HDD in the trash 12 years ago.

James Howells lost his legal battle to recover a hard drive with $770 million worth of Bitcoin after a UK judge dismissed the case.