8,000 bitcoins were lost by James Howells. He has 11 million dollars to recover them.

He threw out an iPhone-sized hard drive, and it changed his life.

In 2013, Howells, a resident of the southern Welsh city of Newport, had two identical laptop hard disks stashed away in a drawer. The other had 8,000 bitcoins, which are today valued about $181 million. One was blank.

The drive with the Bitcoin was taken to the dump, so he couldn’t throw out the blank one.

He’s committed to getting his 2009 stash back.

Howells, 36, wants to organize a modern bitcoin treasure hunt. The landfill is off limits to him.

Since almost ten years ago, the city council of Newport has rejected Howells’ pleas to excavate for his hard drive on the grounds that doing so would be costly and harmful to the environment.

His $11 million plan to search 110,000 tons of rubbish was first shown to me. It is his hope that presenting them to the council will persuade it to allow him to recover the hard disk.

Read the full story here $181 million in bitcoin buried in a dump. $11 million to get them back

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