<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">Moving on is hard.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">"Just ask UK-based IT engineer James Howells, who, almost a decade ago, <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/accidentally-buried-bitcoin-landfill" class="gmail-underline gmail-hover:text-the-byte gmail-hover:no-underline gmail-transition-all gmail-duration-200 ease-in-out" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);background-color:transparent;color:inherit;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,0,51)">accidentally threw away a hard drive</a> containing over $180 million worth of Bitcoin — and is still clinging onto hope that it's recoverable."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">Since <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/accidentally-buried-bitcoin-landfill" class="gmail-underline gmail-hover:text-the-byte gmail-hover:no-underline gmail-transition-all gmail-duration-200 ease-in-out" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);background-color:transparent;color:inherit;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,0,51)">early last year</a>, Howells has been lobbying the Newport city council to let him comb through all of the landfill's trash in order to find it.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">Most recently, he claimed to have secured funding and a top-notch, trash-digging team to support the hunt — but <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-62381682" class="gmail-underline gmail-hover:text-the-byte gmail-hover:no-underline gmail-transition-all gmail-duration-200 ease-in-out" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);background-color:transparent;color:inherit;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,0,51)">as the <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236)">BBC </em>reports</a>, the council <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bitcoin-hard-drive-landfill-newport-council-wales-james-howells-b1787863.html" class="gmail-underline gmail-hover:text-the-byte gmail-hover:no-underline gmail-transition-all gmail-duration-200 ease-in-out" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);background-color:transparent;color:inherit;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,0,51)">has once again</a> rejected his search citing environmental concerns.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">Among claims that his newly-assembled team boasts environmental experts, Howells' most recent plea to the council outlined plans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/02/man-hopes-ai-and-robot-dogs-will-help-recover-150m-in-bitcoin-from-landfill" class="gmail-underline gmail-hover:text-the-byte gmail-hover:no-underline gmail-transition-all gmail-duration-200 ease-in-out" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);background-color:transparent;color:inherit;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,0,51)">to incorporate assistive AI and robot dogs</a> in the effort.</p><p class="gmail-ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">"We've basically got a well-rounded team of various experts, with various expertise, which, when we all come together, are capable of completing this task to a very high standard," the IT tech told the <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236)">BBC</em>."</p><div><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/man-lost-million-bitcoin-hard-drive-dig-trash"><font size="4">Man Who Lost $180 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive 9 Years Ago Still Trying to Dig Through Trash (futurism.com)</font></a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>