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.

Desperate Measures In a last-ditch effort to recover his long-lost crypto wallet, a Welshman is attempting to purchase an entire landfill where he believes it may have been thrown away. As the BBC reports,

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 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,