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‘No chance’ dad who binned £275m Bitcoin harddrive will be allowed to search landfill

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By Bradley Jolly A defiant council has stressed a dad will not be able to dig in a landfill site for IT hardware containing Bitcoin worth £275million. James Howells, 38, is desperate to find the hard drive lost more than 10 years ago amid a spring clean of his office and says it ended up in a tip in his home city. His then partner is believed to have accidentally chucked the hard drive out. The computer engineer has said he intends to sue Newport City Council, action he says would bankrupt the Labour-controlled authority. However today, the council insisted it cannot help Mr Howells further. A…

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