<ul><li>A British man, James Howells, has been trying to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins for a decade.</li><li>He accidentally discarded the hard drive in 2013 and believes it is in a local landfill.</li><li>This week, a judge rejected his legal bid to search for the bitcoin.</li><li>The value of the cryptocurrency on the hard drive is around $750 million.</li></ul>

A man trying to recover a hard drive containing $750 million of bitcoin from a landfill just had his latest bid rejected

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