You have to give it to some people for being impetuous. A single hard drive is surrounded by a lot of trash. A UK man has been trying to get that goal for nearly a decade after he accidentally lost the chance to be a millionaire by throwing the wrong drive in the bin.
He has a new plan and it involves robot dogs. I don't feel a sense of compassion for him.
James Howells, a former IT worker who could have been a multimillionaire, is trying to find a missing drive in a UK landfill that could hold a missing wallet containing thousands of dollars in digital currency. He dumped the wrong hard drive.
The data cache represents millions of dollars stuck on the block and nobody can access it without a password. He isn't giving up on his quest to find his missing millions. Finding that hard drive requires digging through a mountain of garbage.
In an interview with Business Insider, he said he has a plan to save his money. He put together an $11 million business plan that will be used to get investors and the Newport City Council to help dig the landfill. They would have to dig through over 100,000 tons of trash. The plan would cost $6 million. According to a video hosted by Richard Hammond, the proponent has secured funding from two Euro-based venture capitalists if the local government approves.
Human pickers and an artificial intelligence system would be used to sort the garbage at a pop-up facility near the landfill. Eight experts were brought on to find a single hard drive in a trash pile.
The plan involves using robotic dogs. The former IT worker said the machines could be used to look for hard drives. The price for each robot model was $74,500 when they were released. He already has names for the two. According to Insider, he was going to name him after the person or group behind the white paper that first proposed the virtual currency. Hal was the first person to receive a transaction of the digital currency.
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