Man who threw out a bitcoin fortune offers $100 million for permission to dig it up Man who threw out a bitcoin fortune offers $100 million for permission to dig it up Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 11:46AM James Howells at the Newport Amenity Centre and landfill site. Howells accidentally threw out a bitcoin fortune and hopes to dig it up. Man who threw out a bitcoin fortune offers $100 million for permission to dig it up Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 11:46AM A British man who accidentally threw a hard drive loaded with bitcoin into the trash has offered the local authority where he lives close to NZ$100 million if it allows him to excavate a landfill site.