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He needs a so-far nonexistent AI operated ground penetrating scanner that only looks for laptop hard drives, to search the area of the landfill, were he knows the hard drive is.

His story is constantly changing. Wonder what his story is in the upcoming film about him ?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74zel3ng1vo

Did James Howell release his NFT? I believe that he would have more success in making some money back from the loss of his private keys than actually getting all his money back by finding his lost hard drive.

Shower thought. What if he's actually a Bitcoin billionaire with good OPSEC pretending to have lost his private keys? He's probably cashing out today while everyone believes he has no Bitcoin.

That is a valid point, you just made. I am beginning to think why he would not have moved on. And even the thought of inventing devices that would help with the excavation, there is more to this than meets the eyes.

There's also the profit side of things. To give him the benefit of the doubt, if he finds his hard drive, he'll be a billionaire. To not give him a benefit of the doubt, the attention he'll get from his "story" will make him - merely - a millionaire. But both of those conclusions leave him having money, although it would definitely be more preferable to recover the hard drive. It would give him both the billions from the Bitcoins, and the millions for his story. Cool

Absolutely, correct. Either ways its a win for him. Well, I hope that eventually, we will know what comes out of the whole project, as it were.