Britain's James Howells contacted a panel of data recovery experts to ensure that, if his hard drive containing 7,500 Bitcoins (currently valued at $ 364 million) is found in a landfill, its content can be extracted, he said. Howells to The Sun.
"I have assembled a full consortium of experts in the field to refute all claims that the City Council has said it has concerns about," said the 36-year-old computer engineer, referring to the stance of Newport city officials, who fear that the costly search operation in the landfill does not give results and that finally nobody bears the costs derived from the costly action.
Howells pointed out that among the experts contacted is the company Ontrack, hired by NASA to recover data from the hard drive of the crashed Columbia shuttle, which was destroyed during its launch in 2003.
Then the company was able to extract 99% of the information . As for the British hard drive, the company estimates that, if it has not been broken, the chances of success are between 80% and 90%.
"They were able to recover [the data] from a shuttle that exploded and from what it seems they do not believe that being in a landfill is a problem," said Howells, adding that he proposed to the City Council, which previously refuted his idea, to develop a plan and sign a contract.
"The City Council says they are concerned about who will cover the costs if it is not recoverable, but that would all be part of a signed contract. I am asking them for a three-month feasibility study so that we can sit down and outline our plans and they can raise their concerns. and we can answer them, but they won't agree, "Howells said.
After studying aerial photographs of the landfill, the Briton believes that the hard drive would be found somewhere in an area of 200 square meters and at a depth of up to 15 meters.
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