His plan has two versions, a minute Zoom meeting in the project, told Insider these allow him to search. Once he's britisb the council a scanner set over a.
Howells believes the search will take about nine to 12 months, however, even if he does get permission from the council, there is no guarantee the hunt will be successful or that the bitcoins he mined all those years ago will be recoverable from the hard drive. But if the platter is damaged, Bridge says, there is only a small chance the data could be retrieved. Phil Bridge, a data-recovery professional who has advised Howells on the project, told Insider these figures were accurate. In , Mr Howells was understood to be one of the first five people in the world to be running Bitcoin mining software and had 8, coins at a time when it was worth virtually nothing. Bitcoin's network is decentralized, meaning it isn't controlled by a single individual but a network of computers.
