A British man is, once again, pleading with his local city council to let him excavate a landfill for a key that he says will allow him to finally access a long-lost nine-figure digital fortune.
James Howells, 35, has offered tens of millions of dollars to the city council in Newport, Wales, if he gets permission to excavate and if he manages to find the hard drive he tossed out in 2013, reports CNBC. That hard drive, says Howells, contains the only copy of the cryptographic key that will let him access his 7,500 Bitcoin trove, which currently holds an estimated value of $280 million.
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