Twelve years after throwing away his hard drive that contained 8,000 Bitcoin, James Howells is looking to buy the dump he believes it's in.

A father of three who accidentally threw away a Bitcoin fortune worth nearly £600 million is now considering buying a landfill to recover it. James Howells, a 39-year-old computer engineer, lost access to his digital wealth after his partner mistakenly disposed of a black bag filled with old computer parts—one of which contained the hard drive

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.

A computer engineer who lost £620m-worth of Bitcoin wants to buy the tip where he believes it was buried. James Howells, from Newport, claimed his ex-girlfriend mistakenly chucked out a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013.

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.

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.

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.

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

James Howells, who is pursuing a legal battle to retrieve his $775 million Bitcoin fortune, now wants to buy the landfill site where the stash has been allegedly dumped. Howells said the option is "very much on the table,