A UK judge ruled against a man who was hoping to retrieve a Bitcoin-laden hard drive from a city dump. That wallet today, the owner says, is worth nearly $750 million and could be worth $1 billion next year.

A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of bitcoins was mistakenly dumped over 11 years ago. Since 2013, James Howells has been hoping to recover a laptop hard drive that he says contains the private key for cryptocurrency which he says he mined in 2009.

James Howells lost his legal battle to recover a hard drive with $770 million worth of Bitcoin after a UK judge dismissed the case.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced plans to liquidate 69,370 Bitcoin valued at $6.5 billion, seized from the infamous Silk Road case. While headlines focus on the staggering sum, this move isn’t just a one-off financial manoeuvre;

A federal judge approved the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to sell $6.5 billion in Bitcoin acquired from the Silk Road darknet.