A British man is suing the council for $647 million after losing Bitcoin at a landfill site

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, a British IT engineer James Howells from Newport accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins into a landfill and is suing the Newport City Council for £495 million (approximately $647 million) in damages.

It is reported that the man has made several attempts to retrieve the hard drive from the local landfill but has faced resistance from the city council, which has repeatedly denied his requests to excavate the site.