Man Who Loses 8,000 Bitcoin Plans to Use Boston Dynamics "Spot" to Find Them

Robot dogs and AI will be used to guard the landfill where James Howells originally tossed the hard drive, as well as sort through its 110,000 pounds of trash.

James Howells, the man who made headlines after he lost 8,000 bitcoins on a hard drive that he accidentally threw away, has a master plan to get his cryptocurrency back.

Howells threw out the hard drive containing the bitcoins in 2013. It ended up in Howells' local landfill in Newport, Wales.