{"id":1215237,"date":"2025-02-14T14:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215237"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:31:03","slug":"man-offers-to-buy-city-dump-in-last-ditch-effort-to-recover-800m-in-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215237","title":{"rendered":"Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Howells, the IT pro who <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/01\/judge-ends-mans-11-year-quest-to-dig-up-landfill-and-recover-765m-in-bitcoin\/\">lost about 8,000 bitcoins in a landfill<\/a> more than a decade ago, thinks he has one last chance to dig up his buried treasure before it&#8217;s lost forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He wants to buy the landfill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/01\/judge-ends-mans-11-year-quest-to-dig-up-landfill-and-recover-765m-in-bitcoin\/\">Howells lost a court battle with Newport City Council<\/a> in Wales, which many expected would be his last shot at excavating the dump. But soon after, the Newport council revealed that it would be closing the landfill, arousing in Howells a new hope that the bitcoins\u2014today worth nearly $800 million\u2014might still be found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/man-offers-to-buy-city-dump-in-last-ditch-effort-to-recover-800m-in-bitcoins\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/man-offers-to-buy-city-dump-in-last-ditch-effort-to-recover-800m-in-bitcoins\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Howells, the IT pro who lost about 8,000 bitcoins in a landfill more than a decade ago, thinks he has one last chance to dig up his buried treasure before it&#8217;s lost forever. He wants to buy the landfill. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}