An engineer from the British city of Newport announced that he plans to buy a land plot with a garbage dump, on which his hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins worth more than $ 770 million was buried.

James Howells assured that he was already discussing a purchase with unnamed investment partners. The man believes that buying will allow him to calmly engage in the search for missing bitcoins, which he has been inducently trying to return for more than ten years. The unlucky investor lost his fortune in 2013 – the ex -spouse accidentally threw off the hard drive during cleaning.

In January, the Wales court forbade a man to excavate the garbage blocks, fearing that the release of poisonous gases formed during the decomposition of waste can cause serious harm to people and ecology. Later, the local city council announced plans to close the site. The authorities received permission to build a solar power plant on this territory. The 39-year-old engineer was very surprised to learn about such plans.

“The Council stated in court that the closing of a landfill for excavations would have a detrimental effect on the inhabitants of the Newport. It turned out that the administration planned to close the landfill in any case. I expected that this could happen in the coming years, because the site was full of 80-90%, but I did not think that this would happen so soon, ”said James Hawells.

In December, the owner of the lost bitcoins said that he attracted a team of lawyers and began to use the decision on the basis of artificial intelligence (AI) to search for judicial precedents. He believes that this will help him achieve the cancellation of the ban on excavations of the garbage dump.