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.

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.

James Howells, the man who has been in search of his lost Bitcoin worth over $784 million since 2013 is seeking to buy a landfill.

He tried to sue the local council for not responding to his requests to search the site, but the case was dismissed by a judge in January.

A man wants to buy a landfill in order to look for and retrieve a Bitcoin hard drive that he lost in 2013 and that is worth millions of dollars.

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.