A landfill site in Wales, UK, containing $750 million worth of Bitcoin will be permanently closed

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, an IT engineer named James Howells accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins (currently worth about $750 million or £620 million) at a landfill site in Newport, Wales, which is scheduled to close in 2025-26. Howells' attempts to sue the city council for permission to access the site or for compensation have all failed.

The city council plans to close the landfill that has been in use since the early 2000s, with part of the land to be used for the construction of a solar power plant to supply electricity for the city's increasingly large fleet of electric garbage trucks, gradually phasing out diesel vehicles.