卡在垃圾填埋場的8億美元比特幣鑰匙的男人最終請求發掘

詹姆斯·豪威爾斯（James Howells）懇求，談判並懇求任何人（通常是南威爾士州的紐波特市議會），以獲取浪費山的追求，以追捕他的加密貨幣白鯨：這是一種在2013年意外拋棄的硬盤驅動器。

James Howells claims his goal is simple: buy a landfill, excavate tens of thousands of tons of trash, cart every piece by dump truck to a scanner with A.I.-trained detection technology, install a backup magnetic belt to pick up any lingering metallic objects and, thus, find the long-lost hard drive that contains his mistakenly discarded bitcoin key, worth somewhere around $800 million.

詹姆斯·豪威爾斯（James Howells）聲稱自己的目標很簡單：購買垃圾填埋場，挖掘成千上萬噸的垃圾，自卸卡車每件貨車每件用AI訓練的檢測技術推向掃描儀，安裝備用磁帶以拾取任何揮之不去的金屬物體和任何揮之不去的金屬物體和，因此，找到一個久違的硬盤驅動器，其中包含他錯誤丟棄的比特幣鑰匙，價值約8億美元。

“This seems logical,” Mr. Howells said of his plan.

“這似乎是合乎邏輯的，”豪威爾斯先生談到他的計劃時說。

For more than a decade, Mr. Howells has begged, negotiated and pleaded with anyone — most often, the Newport City Council, in South Wales — to get access to the mountains of waste in pursuit his crypto White Whale: a hard drive that was accidentally thrown away in 2013.

十多年來，豪威爾斯先生一直乞求，談判和懇求任何人（最常見的是南威爾士的紐波特市議會），以接近浪費的山脈，以追求他的加密貨幣白鯨：一種硬盤驅動器： 2013年不小心扔掉。

He has secured a data recovery firm and an excavator. He has enlisted the former landfill director to map out the site. He has taken the case to court, to no avail. The city has so far refused to let him excavate the landfill, and is planning to close the site for good.

他已經獲得了數據恢復公司和挖掘機。他已邀請這位前垃圾填埋場董事繪製現場。他已將此案提交法庭，無濟於事。到目前為止，該市拒絕讓他挖掘垃圾填埋場，併計劃永久關閉該地點。

Now, in what may be the final stage of his Pequodian journey, Mr. Howells has one final ask of the Newport City Council: If it won’t let him dig up the place, let him buy it.

現在，在他的Pequodian旅程的最後階段，Howells先生對Newport市議會有一個最後的要求：如果它不允許他挖掘這個地方，請讓他購買。