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 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, according to a report.

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,