#UK court halts treasure hunt plan#

A UK court has halted a plan to search a landfill for $750 million worth of Bitcoin, citing environmental risks. The plan was proposed by James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales, who accidentally discarded a hard drive containing $735 million worth of Bitcoin in 2013. Howells has been trying to persuade Newport City Council to allow him access to the landfill to search for the hard drive, but the council has consistently refused, arguing that it would cause irreversible damage to the environment. UK judge Keyser KC dismissed Howells' application, finding that the case had "no realistic prospect of success" at trial. The judge argued that even if Howells found the hard drive, there was no guarantee that it would still be functional, and that digging up the landfill would cause significant environmental pollution, making it not worth the effort.