SMRTR TechFeb 14, 2025Ars Technica

Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins

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Newport City Council rejects James Howells' offer to buy a landfill containing his lost Bitcoin hard drive worth millions. The council plans to close the landfill and build a solar farm, citing environmental goals and lack of alternative sites, while Howells proposes turning it into a park or reopening it as a landfill.

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