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

A U.K. man hoping to retrieve a Bitcoin-laden hard drive from a city dump is offering to buy the landfill. That wallet today, the owner says, is worth nearly $770 million. James Howells, who has spent the last 12 years trying to convince officials in the UK city of Newport to let him explore the city landfill,

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

Howells first made headlines in 2013 when he revealed to the public that he lost his ability to access the 7,500 Bitcoins he mined back in 2009 when they were basically worthless. At that point, his Bitcoin stash was worth about $7 million.

Buried in a garbage dump in Wales, U.K., is a hard drive containing Bitcoin worth a colossal $765 million, according to computer engineer James Howells. Howells accidentally discarded the smartphone-sized drive in 2013,

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.

British IT worker James Howells plans to buy a landfill in Newport, South Wales, to recover a hard drive containing Bitcoin worth nearly Rs 6,500 crore. He lost the device in 2013 after his then-partner mistakenly threw it away.