紐波特男子詹姆斯·豪威爾斯將基於他難以獲得的比特幣財富推出新的加密貨幣

來自紐波特的詹姆斯·豪厄爾斯（James Howells）將基於他難以獲得的比特幣財富來創建一種新的加密貨幣。這位 39 歲的三個孩子的父親於 2009 年透過瀏覽網路論壇了解了比特幣，他相信自己是該加密貨幣的第一批礦工之一。

A man whose bid to dig up a hard drive containing around £600m worth of Bitcoin from a landfill site has failed in the High Court has said he now plans to create a new cryptocurrency based on his inaccessible Bitcoin wealth. James Howells, from Newport, claims to have mined 8,000 Bitcoins in 2009 which were stored on a hard drive in his home office. But in 2013 his then-partner is said to have mistakenly thrown out the hard drive which ended up at the Docksway landfill site in Newport.

一名男子試圖從垃圾掩埋場挖出一個裝有價值約6 億英鎊比特幣的硬碟，但在高等法院失敗。貨幣。來自紐波特的 James Howells 聲稱在 2009 年開採了 8,000 個比特幣，這些比特幣儲存在他家庭辦公室的硬碟上。但據說 2013 年，他當時的合夥人錯誤地扔掉了硬碟，最終被扔到了紐波特的 Docksway 垃圾掩埋場。

Mr Howells, 39, has spent years trying to get permission to excavate the site and approached investors who were prepared to pay for the dig. But Newport council refused and Mr Howells took them to the High Court in a "last resort" attempt to get the go-ahead for the dig or be paid £495m in damages.

39 歲的豪厄爾斯先生多年來一直試圖獲得挖掘該遺址的許可，並接觸了願意支付挖掘費用的投資者。但紐波特市議會拒絕了，豪厄爾斯先生將他們告上高等法院，作為“最後手段”，試圖獲得挖掘許可，否則將獲得 4.95 億英鎊的賠償金。

His claim was thrown out by Judge Keyser KC on Thursday, who said it would have "no realistic prospect" of success at trial. Mr Howells told WalesOnline he now feels "the dig is completely off the table".

週四，凱澤·KC 法官駁回了他的主張，稱該主張在審判中「沒有現實的前景」。豪厄爾斯先生告訴威爾斯在線，他現在覺得「挖掘工作完全不可能」。

But he said a comment made by the judge during the hearing could help him in a new scheme to finally make the most of his inaccessible Bitcoin. He said: "During the hearing, the judge himself stated it was his belief that the council owned the physical hard drive but that I am the owner of the Bitcoin. But he was disappointed that this finding did not feature in the written judgement handed down by Judge Keyser on Thursday.

但他表示，法官在聽證會上發表的評論可能會幫助他制定一項新計劃，最終充分利用他無法訪問的比特幣。他說：「在聽證會上，法官本人表示，他相信理事會擁有實體硬碟，但我才是比特幣的所有者。但令他感到失望的是，這項發現並未出現在書面判決中。 」週四，凱澤法官發表演說。

"What was issued was the judgment but there is also going to be a final order," Mr Howells added. "I am hoping the order will recognise my ownership of the Bitcoin in law which will allow me to legally tokenise them into a new asset."

豪厄爾斯先生補充說：“發布的是判決，但也將有最終命令。” “我希望該命令能夠在法律上承認我對比特幣的所有權，這將使我能夠合法地將它們標記為新資產。”

Mr Howells admitted his tokenisation plan has been a difficult concept for some people to understand but he made this analogy to explain it. He said: "In the old days, gold bars would be held in a vault and the notes traded in public would represent the value held in the vault. I could use the Bitcoin as backing, like a financial vault, and create a new currency - let's imagine it's called James Coin - which would replicate one for one the assets in the Bitcoin wallet.

豪厄爾斯先生承認，他的代幣化計畫對某些人來說是一個難以理解的概念，但他用這個類比來解釋它。他說：「在過去，金條會存放在金庫中，公開交易的紙幣將代表金庫中持有的價值。我可以使用比特幣作為支持，就像金融金庫一樣，並創造一種新的貨幣- 讓我們想像它被稱為詹姆斯幣- 它將一一複製比特幣錢包中的資產。

"Everyone can see the Bitcoin is never going to move. I can't get the private key so it's going to be sat there for eternity. But I believe with a court declaration of ownership, I can tokenise them into a sub-currency. I would become a figurehead for James Coin and it would be marketed as a child currency of Bitcoin. Its value would always be derived from Bitcoin - James Coin's value will go up and down as the market price of Bitcoin goes up and down."

「每個人都可以看到，比特幣永遠不會移動。我無法獲得私鑰，因此它將永遠留在那裡。但我相信，透過法庭聲明所有權，我可以將它們標記為子貨幣。我將成為詹姆斯幣的傀儡，它將作為比特幣的子貨幣進行營銷，它的價值將始終源自比特幣——詹姆斯幣的價值將隨著比特幣市場價格的上漲和下跌而上漲和下跌。

We asked Mr Howells if his inability to access the Bitcoin would be an obstacle to these ambitions. "It's not an obstacle," he replied. "It's a benefit. The landfill acts like a super-duper storage vault. The coins never come out of the vault, and something else that's traded represents what is in the vault."

我們詢問豪厄爾斯先生，他無法獲得比特幣是否會成為實現這些雄心壯志的障礙。 「這不是障礙，」他回答。 「這是一個好處。垃圾掩埋場就像一個超級儲存金庫。硬幣永遠不會從金庫中出來，而交易的其他東西代表金庫中的東西。”

Mr Howells believes he could get the cryptocurrency running within a year. Even in a best-case scenario the scheme would not see him recover all of his £600m wealth, he acknowledged. "It's a very small win for me but it would allow me to do something else, rather than sit there and look at the Bitcoin I can't access."

豪厄爾斯先生相信他可以在一年內讓加密貨幣運作起來。他承認，即使在最好的情況下，該計劃也不會讓他收回全部 6 億英鎊的財富。 「這對我來說是一個很小的勝利，但它讓我可以做其他事情，而不是坐在那裡看著我無法訪問的比特幣。”

He added that James Coin was only a "placeholder" for the currency's yet-to-be-decided name. When we asked if he had considered using 'Bin Coin' for marketing purposes, he said he saw the funny side but he was more likely to go with Ceiniog Coin. "Ceiniog is the Welsh word for penny, or the smallest denomination of money," he said, adding that he liked the "old-school" association with ancient Welsh money.

他補充說，詹姆斯幣只是該貨幣尚未確定的名稱的「佔位符」。當我們問他是否考慮過使用「Bin Coin」進行行銷時，他說他看到了有趣的一面，但他更有可能選擇 Ceiniog Coin。 「Ceiniog 在威爾斯語中是便士的意思，或者是最小面額的貨幣，」他說，並補充說他喜歡與古代威爾斯貨幣的「老派」聯繫。

After securing backing from investors, Mr Howells had assembled a team of experts who were prepared to carry out a £10million landfill dig at no cost to the council. He had also offered the council 10% of the Bitcoin's value if recovered. But James Goudie KC, representing the council in court, argued that this could have amounted to a "bribe" and would have been playing "fast and loose" with regulations. He said that the hard drive had become council property when it entered the landfill and that the site's environmental permits would prevent the proposed excavation.

在獲得投資者的支持後，豪厄爾斯先生組建了一個專家團隊，準備在不向市議會支付任何費用的情況下進行 1000 萬英鎊的垃圾掩埋場挖掘工作。如果比特幣被收回，他還向理事會提供了 10% 的補償。但在法庭上代表該委員會的詹姆斯·古迪·KC (James Goudie KC) 辯稱，這可能構成“賄賂”，並且會“隨意”違反規定。他說，硬碟在進入垃圾掩埋場時已成為議會財產，該地點的環境許可證將阻止擬議的挖掘。

Mr Howells' team had narrowed down the likely location of the hard drive and estimated the dig would take 18 to 36 months followed by around a year of remediation work. His barrister Dean Armstrong KC said the search was not so much a "needle in a haystack" case as a "finely tuned plan

豪厄爾斯先生的團隊已經縮小了硬碟可能的位置範圍，並估計挖掘工作需要 18 至 36 個月的時間，然後進行大約一年的修復工作。他的律師 Dean Armstrong KC 表示，這次搜查與其說是“大海撈針”，不如說是一個“精心調整的計劃”。