Man to Buy Entire Landfill to Find Lost "Needle-in-a-Haystack" $800 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive

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In what may be the world's most expensive game of hide and seek, a man in Wales is still trying to recover a hard drive he accidentally threw away over a decade ago—one that just so happens to hold the key to $800 million worth of Bitcoin. 

And since simply asking nicely hasn’t worked, he’s now offering to buy the entire landfill where it’s buried. 

Because when life gives you lemons, you apparently try to purchase the entire citrus farm!

How to Accidentally Throw Away Nearly a Billion Dollars

Back in 2013, a computer science analyst had a routine cleaning day that will haunt him for the rest of his life. 

While tossing out old computer parts, he mistakenly included a hard drive containing the only access to his cryptocurrency fortune—a casual 8,000 Bitcoin—which was worth next to nothing at the time but has since skyrocketed to "could-buy-a-small-country" levels of value.

Since then, he’s spent 12 years trying to convince local officials to let him dig through a literal mountain of garbage in the hopes of finding what might be the most valuable piece of e-waste in human history.


 

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try Buying the Dump

Newport City Council has repeatedly told him, "Absolutely not, mate," citing things like environmental concerns, the astronomical costs of excavation, and, presumably, the fact that they don’t feel like turning the city into the setting of a National Treasure sequel.

But in a final, Hail Mary attempt, the man is now offering to buy the entire landfill before the city permanently shuts it down. 

He promises to clean it up, convert the site into a lovely park (presumably one with Bitcoin-shaped flower beds), or—if necessary—just keep it a landfill, but one with significantly fewer life-altering financial regrets buried under the surface.

The City Says: "Still No"

Despite his willingness to fund the entire project and offer the city a 25% cut of whatever Bitcoin is recovered, officials remain skeptical. 

One judge dismissed his case outright, saying there was "no realistic prospect" of success, which is legal jargon for "Dude, this isn’t a rom-com where you magically find a USB drive in the final act."

Meanwhile, city officials have pointed out that, statistically speaking, the hard drive is probably ruined, and even if it isn't, finding it would be harder than convincing your grandma that Bitcoin isn’t just a fancy online slot machine.

A Billion-Dollar Needle in a Stinking Haystack


 

The man remains undeterred, insisting that he’s willing to go through every single piece of garbage to find his hard drive. 

Which, to be fair, makes sense—if your bank account had $800 million locked inside and you just needed to find one tiny key, you’d probably start digging too.

But for now, the city is holding firm. And if he does somehow manage to pull this off, expect a new Netflix documentary titled Dumb Luck: The Man Who Bought a Landfill and Won.

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