{"id":43066,"date":"2025-02-09T22:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=43066"},"modified":"2025-02-09T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T22:10:13","slug":"lost-fortune-landfill-containing-750m-in-bitcoin-to-be-sealed-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=43066","title":{"rendered":"Lost Fortune: Landfill Containing $750M in Bitcoin to Be Sealed Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A landfill in Newport, Wales, where James Howells accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins (now worth approximately $750m or \u00a3620m) is scheduled to close in 2025-26. Howells\u2019 attempts to sue the council for access to the site or compensation were unsuccessful. The council is planning to cap and close the landfill, which has [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landfill in Newport, Wales, where James Howells accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins (now worth approximately $750m or \u00a3620m) is scheduled to close in 2025-26. Howells\u2019 attempts to sue the council for access to the site or compensation were unsuccessful. The council is planning to cap and close the landfill, which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}