A Welsh man whose partner accidentally threw out an HDD containing 8,000 Bitcoins has become increasingly desperate to recoup the lost treasure. Now, he is suing the council.

For the past decade, James Howells, a 39-year-old resident of Newport, Wales, has been pleading with his city for permission to search through the local

In 2013, Howells accidentally threw out the hard drive his bitcoin stash that he had mined in 2009, worth around $1 million at the time but which now would be worth over $520 million

A UK man is reportedly suing his city council for hundreds of millions of dollars for not allowing him to dig up his old hard drive containing Bitcoin (BTC) from a landfill.

A man is headed to court because he says there is more than half a billion dollars in a landfill, but they won't let him look.

Now, in an effort to compel the local government to carry out his wishes, Howell has sued the council, asking for £495,314,800 in damages, Wales Online reports. The amount Howells is asking for is roughly the equivalent of what he would have made had he held onto the crypto-bearing drive.