The risky strategy of the engineer James Howells looking for a needle in a haystack continues standing. Everything to find the hard drive that threw 12 years during the cleaning of his home without remembering the millionaire content he had and had undermined: “8,000 bitcoin, in 2013 the price of a single Bitcoin was around 96 euros. Today, that value It is located at almost 93,000 euros, that is, The treasure would have a total value of 744 million euros“, As the computer scientist said. To find it, he has used several methods. However, he has now claimed that he has decided to buy the landfill where he thinks he is buried.
The tasty of life is that nothing is said, or insured. Accidents arise, which unintentionally can generate an abysmal headache. This happened to Howells, a computer engineer who 12 years ago I threw a hard drive With a fortune in Bitcoin. Today you want dig up a landfill to find it At all costs and not only that, he wants to buy all the land.
When accounting for this millionaire accident, the computer scientist began to Create a Master Search plan valued at 11 million eurosto excavate in a Newport landfill (United Kingdom) and thus find the lost “treasure”. The search also brought a promise in case of recovering the lost hard drive, and that is that the engineer offered 10% of the profits to build a cryptocurrency center in the British country.
For the risky mission, the computer scientist said it would be a search Without environmental “damage” and promised that it will be “beneficial” for the city of Newport (It aims to transform the landfill into a solar farm with wind turbines). But the British local authorities forbade him to pass the landfill on numerous occasions to suppose a “high” ecological risk.
In his attempt to recover it, too NASA already resorted to robot dogs to banish the landfill. DI enter its budget of 11 million euros, hired Phil Bridge’s services, an expert linked to NASA in the recovery of space ferry columbia after its disintegration. Also, he requested Robot Spot dogs from Boston Dynamics, to track in the area through a scanner to try to locate the hard drive.
“This is the most professional operation we have mounted. It is a serious proposal, we are able to complete this task at a very high level “he pointed to Times. “I have seen data recovered in the most unusual circumstances you can imagine,” he added in his second attempt.
“The third is the defeated” (or not)
In his third attempt, James Howells has decided to take a more radical measure: Buy all the landfill. According to Fortune, This year the huge dump will close and will be replaced by a solar park. Howells sees it as an opportunity after having lost in a legal instance in January when the judge ruled that he had no “realistic successful perspective” in his effort if the case continued.
“The fact that the City Council is planning to close the landfill is as soon as a surprise, especially since he affirmed before the Superior Court to close the landfill to allow me To carry out the search would have a huge negative impact on the population of Newportwhile at the same time they were planning to close the landfill anyway, “the engineer explained to Metro.” You might be interested in buying the landfill. I have talked about this option recently with investor partners and is very on the table, “he added.
Howells offered divide the value of the bitcoins With the city of Newport. Officials insist that the search is impossible due to environmental permits and that the hard drive It became the property of the city As soon as he entered the landfill.
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