Bitcoin landfill man loses appeal, says he has one ‘last legal option’

The man who has been trying to recover a hard drive containing the private keys to 8,000 Bitcoin from a UK landfill site now plans to file an international human rights case.

A UK man’s bid to obtain a permit to search a landfill for his hard drive — holding private keys to 8,000 Bitcoin — has been rejected by the UK Court of Appeals.

“Appeal request to the Royal Court of Appeal: refused,” Howells said in a March 14 X post.

“The Great British Injustice System strikes again… The state always protects the state,” the early Bitcoin adopter added before revealing his “next stop” would be the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

UK Royal Court of Appeal Judge Christopher Nugee knocked back Howells’ application, stating that there was no “real prospect of success” and there was “no other compelling reason” as to why it should be heard, according to a March 13 filing shared with Cointelegraph.

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