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Bitcoin coverage
[edit]2013
[edit]- James Howells searches for hard drive with £4m-worth of bitcoins stored, BBC
- Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site, The Guardian
- Bitcoin worth $9M buried in garbage dump, CNN
- Bitcoin Blunder Man Throws Away '£4m Laptop', Sky News
2017
[edit]- Man accidentally threw away $127 million in bitcoin and officials won’t allow a search, CNBC
- Man who ‘threw away’ bitcoin haul now worth over $80m wants to dig up landfill site, The Independent
- This man's lost bitcoin are now worth $75m – and under 200,000 tonnes of garbage, WRIED
- The unlucky man who accidentally threw away bitcoin worth $100 million, The Telegraph
- The unlucky man who accidentally threw away Bitcoin worth $100 million, Wales Online
2021
[edit]- Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump, New Yorker
- Man makes last-ditch effort to recover $280 million in bitcoin he accidentally threw out, CNBC
- IT worker offers council £50m to let him search tip for bitcoin hard drive The Times
- Man offers Newport council £50m if it helps find bitcoins in landfill, The Guardian
- Man who accidentally threw out a bitcoin fortune offers $70 million for permission to dig it up, CNN
- Newport man offers council £52.5m to search for Bitcoin hard drive, South Wales Argus
- NASA expert helps man find Bitcoin hard drive in Newport tip, South Wales Argus
2022
[edit]- Man who threw away £150m in bitcoin hopes AI and robot dogs will get it back, The Guardian
- The Welshman who accidentally threw out 8,000 Bitcoin in 2013 is mounting an $11 million campaign to get it back, Fortune
- I'll spend £10m to get my Bitcoin back from tip, IT worker tells council, The Telegraph
- Bitcoin Dumpster Guy Has a Wild Plan to Rescue Millions in Crypto From a Landfill, Gizmodo
- Appeal to use robot dogs to search for bitcoin fortune lost in landfill, South Wales Argus
- Man who binned Bitcoin worth £200m assembles team he says can find it in landfill, Wales Online
2023
[edit]- Bitcoin investor who lost £164m in landfill to sue local council, The Telegraph
- How I accidentally threw away £107 million in bitcoin, The Times
- Newport: Can AI help find lost £227m Bitcoin fortune?, BBC
- Robot dogs, AI and the plan to retrieve £165m crypto fortune lost in rubbish dump, The Independent
- 'I've got a £160m fortune lost in the dump and I'll sue the council unless I can dig it up', Wales Online
- Bitcoin treasure hunter James Howells' bid to get in Newport landfill, South Wales Argus
2024
[edit]- Man says his binned Bitcoin fortune now worth £500m, BBC
- $749 million ‘treasure hunt’: Crypto miner fights to retrieve Bitcoin fortune he claims was accidentally thrown in landfill, Fortune
- 'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive, The Register
- British Man Demands He Be Allowed to Dig Through Trash to Find $500 Million in Bitcoin, Decrypt
- Guy Who Threw Away $500 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive Sues Local Government to Search Dump, Gizmodo
- Man sues council for £495m over a lost Bitcoin hard drive in landfill, Boing Boing
- Man Sues Town for $647 Million Over Trashed Bitcoin Hard Drive, VICE
- Man who threw away 'Bitcoin fortune nudging £1.5bn' by mistake launches legal fight to search tip, Wales Online
- 'I'm suing the council for £495m because they won't give me back my bin bag', Wales Online
- Newport man who threw out £569m of Bitcoin sues the council, South Wales Argus
- 'My partner threw away £500m in Bitcoin with the rubbish', Leicester Mercury