James Howells, a British IT worker, accidentally threw away the hard drive that contained a key for over $700 million in Bitcoin. He wants to buy the landfill it went to and try to dig it up.

Buried deep in a Welsh landfill, beneath layers of years-old garbage, there is a hard drive that holds the key to almost $800 million in bitcoin – or so James Howells believes, after ...

Editor’s Note: A quote initially attributed to James Howells has been corrected to reflect its proper source, Halfina Eddy-Evans.

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For 12 years, James Howells has begged officials to let him dig through a South Wales landfill to find a lost Bitcoin wallet that he says is worth around $800 million.

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