Since the inception of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency has evolved and is now recognized as the perfect replacement for traditional assets like gold, real estate, and stocks. In fact, the popularity of Bitcoin grew so much that Bitcoiners started referring to the token as digital gold. But gold is valuable and expensive, be it virtual or physical. Recently, a man named James Howells, made headlines after he accidentally threw away 8,000 Bitcoin tokens stored on a hard drive. In a recent interview, Howells, the IT engineer accepts losing his lost fortune but also reveals his new plan to retrieve the coins. Typically, the plan involves two Spot robot dogs that are manufactured by the American robotics design company Boston Dynamics.
Each of these robot dogs costs approximately US$75,000. Their mission will be to excavate the landfill and sort through 110,000 pounds of rubbish to find the hard drive where Howells stored his Bitcoin tokens. The reason why he deployed two robot dogs is that one of them will be working while the other one will charge. Howells' plan is backed up by two venture capitalists, Karl Wendeborn and Hanspeter Jaberg, and would involve a number of engineers and experts who would help him dig up his invaluable crypto tokens.
Howells is currently fighting to secure permission from Newport's city council to dig up the landfill and find the hard drive using a high-tech, multimillion-dollar plan. This master plan would need US$11 million to sort through 110,000 pounds of trash. Both humans and AI-powered machines will be trained to recognize the hard drive and would then sort through it, which might even take three years. Howells has also recruited a data extraction team that would also include an advisor who had helped recover data from the black box of the Columbia space shuttle after it crashed. It seems like the crypto enthusiasts are deeply engrossed in integrating the best practices of technology to utilize the best of what cryptocurrency has to offer.
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