A guy who accidentally threw $ 700 million in bitcoins wants to buy a landfill to find her

James Hawells, a British IT worker, got more than 7,500 bitcoins in 2009, when they were The field is now one bitcoin Assessing its cache worth more than 700 million dollars. Unfortunately, Hawellus accidentally threw a hard drive on which he kept the key in garbage. He has a scheme to return this money, He wants to buy a landfill with a field where it can be buried and dig it.

Hawells does not know where the hard drive is located, but has a firm assumption based on when he threw it into garbage. He narrowed to a certain part of the landfill of South Wales, in which 15,000 metric tons of waste are placed. The landfill is approaching maximum power, so Hawells wants to buy it from the city. Officials warned that the hard drive “buried less than 25,000 cubic meters of waste and land”, as it was there for almost 12 years.

Although the city did not make a final decision, it does not look good for Howells and his plan “needles in the haystack”. There are serious environmental dangers to accidentally dig a landfill. The excavation process will be risky and expensive. After that, the landfills should be lit, another expensive project. The city also plans to build a solar farm for parts of the Earth.

Finally, there is a hard drive itself. Will there be anything restored after lies under tons and tons of garbage for 12 years? This seems unlikely, although Hawells and its investors should have several serious data search specialists.

This is only the last attempt by Hawells to relate to the landfill as an archaeological place of excavation in search of his lost state. He has been in this for more than ten years. In 2017, To let him dig, and the officials said no, And the fear of undermining the treasure hunters to go down to the dug using shovels.

In 2021, he tried to sweeten the pot, offering the city 25 percent of the restored bitcoin. Again, Hawells in 2022 developed a particularly strange scheme, which included sending make digging. You can imagine that the city said this (it was not.)

There was another attempt that it did not get traction. Finally, Hawells decided to sue the city of Newport for the right to a dead end in a landfill, like a really rude, Kanka Indiana Jones. Judge Having decided that the case “had no realistic prospects to succeed.”

That's where we are now. Hawells and his investors are trying to buy a landfill when the city considers it. We will update this post when we get some closure of this particularly strange story about the search for the wealth of one person. In other news, this will completely become a limited series on Peacock or something like that, right?

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