This is the most recent update on it.
Howells has requested to dig for his hard drive for almost ten years, but Newport’s city council has consistently rejected him because they claim it would be costly and environmentally harmful.
He has put together a group of eight professionals, including one advisor who worked for a company that recovered data from the black box of the Columbia space shuttle, who have expertise in things like AI-powered sorting, landfill excavation, waste management, and data extraction.
The specialists and their businesses would be hired to carry out the excavation and would get a bonus if the bitcoin hoard could be found.
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