The man who lost wealth Bitcoin in the Welsh type explores the purchase of the entire landfill Bitcoin

A computer expert who fought the decades for the recovery of wealth in the amount of £ 600 million, he believes that he was buried at the council-to-southern landfill Velles Given the purchase of place that it can be hunting because of the missing wealth.

James Hovells They lost the case with a high court last month To compel that Newport city council allow him to search the top to retrieve a hard disk that says it contains bitcoine.

The council has announced plans from then to close and opens a website, which would almost certainly write the end of any long-term hopes to reach Bitcoine. The body provided a planning permit for a solar farm at the part of the country.

Hovells, 39, said Monday, it was a “quite surprise” to hear the closing plan. He said, “It was claimed by the High Court that giving me a landfill to search for a huge detrimental effect on newport people, while planning to close the landfill anyway.

“I expected that in the coming years it would close because it was 80/90% full – but it was not expecting its closure soon, I would potentially be interested in buying a landfill” as it ” This option with investment partners and that is something that is in the table. “

When he appeared on Cardiff Civil Justice Centur, which advocated lawyers who work Pro Bono, Howells described how 2013 it was in summer. Years Accidentally put a hard drive It contains his wallet in a black bag in a black bag during the office of the sort and left him in the house of his house. His then said the partner had mistaken a garbage bag and took it with her on a trip to the landfill, where he was lost.

Hovells quickly understood the mistake and has since asked the Council to help him take a hard drive, even to offer money to share money with authority, without success.

The council resisted Howells’ attempts to enable him to search, insisting that the hard disk became her property when he entered the landfill.

Sitting as a judge High Judge, Judge Keiser KC said in January that he accepted the Council’s argument that Hovells had not right to try to take it.

Newport city council refused to comment.