James Howells has begged officials to let him dig through a South Wales landfill to find a lost Bitcoin wallet that he says is worth around $800 million.

James Howells has been in a decades-long battle with local officials to gain access to the landfill to look for the lost Bitcoin hard drive.

In one of the most extraordinary modern-day treasure hunts, James Howells, a 39-year-old engineer from Newport, South Wales, remains determined to recover a hard drive he accidentally discarded in 2013—one that holds a staggering 8,