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 accidentally throwing the drive away in 2013.

James Howells, the man who has been in search of his lost Bitcoin worth over $784 million since 2013 is seeking to buy a landfill.

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.

A man wants to buy a landfill in order to look for and retrieve a Bitcoin hard drive that he lost in 2013 and that is worth millions of dollars.

James Howells has been in a decades-long battle with local officials to gain access to the landfill to look for the lost Bitcoin hard drive.

In one of the most extraordinary modern-day treasure hunts, James Howells, a 39-year-old engineer from Newport, South Wales, remains determined to recover a hard drive he accidentally discarded in 2013—one that holds a staggering 8,