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 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.

James Howells, a man from Wales, claims his KSh 90.3 billion ($700 million) Bitcoin fortune was accidentally dumped in a Newport landfill 12 years ago.

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 U.

Bitcoin miner James Howells, who lost a hard drive containing $750 million in Bitcoin, is now considering the Newport landfill purchase.

Howells sued the city of Newport, Wales, in October 2024 for the right to search the landfill or pay him £495 million ($607 million) in compensation.

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.

THE NEWPORT man who claims to have Bitcoin worth over £600m sat in landfill is now asking to buy the entire landfill site, after he lost his legal battle.

The Bitcoin was accidentally dumped by an ex-girlfriend in 2013, according to reports A man who claims his $700 million Bitcoin fortune was dumped at a landfill is trying to buy the land back in hopes of recovering it,