Man who threw ₹6,500 crore in Bitcoin plans to buy landfill where he thinks it's buried

British IT worker James Howells is planning to buy an entire landfill in New Port in United Kingdom's South Wales, The Guardian reported.

Why do you think so? Howells' ambitious plan is part of his 12-year-long pursuit to locate Bitcoin worth £600 million (nearly ₹6,500 crore) he accidentally lost in trash.

The case first came to the fore in 2013 when Howells revealed that he had accidentally lost the Bitcoin he had mined. He said that he had put the hard drive containing his Bitcoin wallet in a black bag and left it in the hall of his house.

His then partner reportedly mistook the bag for trash and dumped it in the trash, where it has since been allegedly lost.