According to Golden Finance, IT engineer James Howells from Newport accidentally dropped a $669 million worth of Bitcoin. Although he is trying to enter the landfill by legal means or buy the site directly. However, a UK scrap station management expert questioned the possible retrieval, claiming that the chances of finding a lost hard drive and recovering $669 million worth of Bitcoin were almost zero. Howells, a computer engineer from Newport, South Wales, believes his ex-wife mistakenly dropped a hard drive containing a Bitcoin wallet in 2013 and took legal action to try to enter a local landfill or ask Newport to The SARS government compensated £495 million (US$609 million). At the December hearing, the court learned Howells, an early Bitcoin user, mined more than 7,500 bitcoins in 2009, when the value of Bitcoin was low. However, the judge dismissed the case on January 9, saying that since so long has passed, the reasons for filing the lawsuit are insufficient, "if the case continues to be heard, the possibility of success is almost zero." British commercial scrap companies say that even if Howells manages to enter the scene, he is only one in 902 million of the probability of finding a hard drive from the 1.4 million tons of garbage in the landfill.