In 2022, Howells said if he can’t go into the dump, he’ll send Boston Dynamics robotic dogs to do the digging for him. That was part of a larger, $11 million business plan in which he proposed spending three years excavating the landfill to find his hard drive, while also turning the site into a mining facility. Newport did not go for that, either.

A man in UK's South Wales is planning to buy a landfill in his 12-year-long pursuit to find Bitcoin worth ₹6,500 crore he had mistakenly thrown away.

Man says His $700M bitcoin fortune was "buried in landfill," after his ex left it at the garbage dump. Now He’s Trying to buy the land to get it back

James Howells wants to search a landfill site where he lost for 8,000 bitcoins now worth about £620m.

A Welsh landfill site where 8,000 Bitcoins are thought to be buried will be repurposed, at least partly, into a solar farm - but the man who lost the haul has other plans.

A computer engineer who believes his Bitcoin hard drive worth nearly £600m is buried in a landfill is now considering buying the entire site to find it. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

After a legal case to force the council to let him search the site was thrown out by a judge, James Howells is toying with offering to purchase it instead and says he is discussing the idea with his business partners.

James Howells is considering buying the garbage dump he believes his $760million Bitcoin fortune was lost in after losing a legal battle with the local authority to be granted access to search the sit