The landfill in the United Kingdom where a hard drive containing 768 million dollars in Bitcoin would be closing.
The landfill in Wales where a hard drive supposedly containing 8,000 bitcoins is believed to be lost is about to close.
A landfill in the UK, which has been the center of a man's fight to recover a lost hard drive with 8,000 bitcoins, is reportedly about to close.
The site, located in Newport, Wales, east of the country's capital, Cardiff, is expected to close in the fiscal year 2025-26, according to BBC News on February 9.
“The landfill has been operational since the early 2000s and is reaching the end of its useful life, so the council is working on a planned closure and sealing of the site over the next two years,” said a spokesperson for Newport City Council to the BBC.
The council has obtained planning permissions for a solar farm on part of the land, approved in August.
The site could contain a large stash of Bitcoin stored on a hard drive that local IT worker James Howells claimed ended up in the landfill after his ex-partner accidentally threw it away in 2013.
Howells claimed that the hard drive contained about 8,000 BTC that he mined in 2009, which would currently have an approximate value of 768 million dollars.