On February 10, according to the Guardian, James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, UK, has spent a decade trying to find a 600 million-pound bitcoin fortune he believes is buried in a municipal dump in south Wales, and he is considering buying the site in order to find the missing wealth. James Howells lost his case in the UK High Court last month, failing to force Newport City Council to allow him to search the dump to retrieve a hard drive he claims contains 8,000 bitcoins.