Computer engineer who accidentally discarded hard drive consults Newport council over scheme
A computer engineer who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing approximately £150m worth of bitcoin plans to use artificial intelligence to search through thousands of tonnes of landfill.containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013 during an office clearoutThe council has previously denied the 37-year-old’s repeated requests to search the site due to environmental concerns but he has hatched a £10m hi-tech scheme backed by hedge fund money to find the digital assets.
“We’ve also got an environmental team on board. We’ve basically got a well-rounded team of various experts, with various expertise, which, when we all come together, are capable of completing this task to a very high standard.” Howells said: “We’ve got a whole list of incentives, of good cases we’d like to do for the community.
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