British Judge Blocks Bitcoin Recovery

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Judge Ends One Man's 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill

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A British judge rules against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of bitcoins was mistakenly dumped over 11 years ago .

James Howells has been hoping to recover a laptop hard drive that he says contains the private key for cryptocurrency which he says he mined in 2009 .

He says the hard drive is 2 inches in size and has a wallet.dat file containing a private key that can enable access to the bitcoin.

Ex-girlfriend says she brought the hard drive and other unwanted belongings to the dump, at Howells ' request.

"I thought he should be running his errands, not me, but I did it to help out... I'd love nothing more than him to find it. I'm sick and tired of hearing about it," she said.

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