男子丟掉裝有價值 5 億英鎊比特幣的硬碟後表示希望並未喪失

39 歲的詹姆斯·豪厄爾斯(James Howells) 表示，十年前，當他當時的伴侶哈菲娜·艾迪·埃文斯(Halfina Eddy-Evans) 扔掉了一個裝有電腦驅動器的黑色垃圾袋時，他的財富夢想就破滅了。

A man whose partner threw away his hard drive containing Bitcoin now worth more than half a billion pounds has been told hope is not lost - if he used the right phrase.

一名男子的伴侶扔掉了他的硬碟，裡面裝有比特幣，現在價值超過 5 億英鎊，他被告知希望不會消失——如果他使用了正確的短語。

James Howells, 39, says his dreams of a fortune disappeared a decade ago when his then partner, Halfina Eddy-Evans, chucked out a black bin bag containing the computer drive. On it was around 8,000 Bitcoin he mined in 2009 which is said to be worth £569million.

39 歲的詹姆斯·豪厄爾斯(James Howells) 表示，十年前，當他當時的伴侶哈菲娜·艾迪·埃文斯(Halfina Eddy-Evans) 扔掉了一個裝有電腦驅動器的黑色垃圾袋時，他的財富夢想就破滅了。他在 2009 年開採了大約 8,000 個比特幣，據說價值 5.69 億英鎊。

Newport City Council has denied him access to the landfill, leading to legal action. But now experts have said Mr Howells could still access his money - if he used the right phrase.

紐波特市議會拒絕他進入垃圾掩埋場，導致他採取法律行動。但現在專家表示，豪厄爾斯先生仍然可以獲得他的資金——如果他使用了正確的措辭的話。

Hadyn Jones, an expert in cryptocurrency, told MailOnline : “If he has recorded the seed phrase somewhere physically, then that could be possible.

加密貨幣專家哈丁瓊斯 (Hadyn Jones) 告訴《每日郵報》：「如果他在實體位置記錄了助記詞，那麼這就是可能的。

'It's very easy to do as long as he has the piece of paper with it. So, as long as he has that, he is quids in. If he doesn't, it's sayōnara.'

只要他有那張紙，這很容易做到。所以，只要他有這個，他就有錢。

“There is no computably feasible way of cracking that private key. It's computably infeasible to crack it – there's not enough time in the universe to do that.”

「沒有可計算的可行方法來破解該私鑰。從計算角度來說，破解它是不可能的——宇宙中沒有足夠的時間來做到這一點。

Earlier this week, his ex partner Halfina said: "Yes, I threw away his rubbish, he asked me to. The computer part had been disposed of in a black sack along with other unwanted belongings and he begged me to take it away.

本週早些時候，他的前搭檔哈爾菲娜說：「是的，我扔掉了他的垃圾，他要求我這麼做。電腦零件和其他不需要的物品一起被裝在一個黑色袋子裡，他懇求我把它拿走。

“I had no idea what was in it but I reluctantly dropped it off at the local tip on the way home from going on the school run. I thought he should be running his errands, not me, but I did it to help out.

「我不知道裡面裝的是什麼，但我在學校跑步回家的路上不情願地將它扔到了當地的小費處。我認為他應該跑腿，而不是我，但我這樣做是為了幫忙。

“Losing it was not my fault. I'd love nothing more than him to find it. I'm sick and tired of hearing about it."

「失去它不是我的錯。我最希望他能找到它。我聽膩了這件事。

A spokesperson for Newport City Council said of his attempt to access the site to retrieve his drive: "Newport City Council has been contacted multiple times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to be in our landfill site.

紐波特市議會的一位發言人在談到他試圖訪問該網站取回硬碟時表示：「自2013 年以來，我們多次聯繫紐波特市議會，詢問是否有可能取回據說位於我們垃圾掩埋場的IT 硬體。

"The council has told Mr Howells multiple times that excavation is not possible under our environmental permit, and that work of that nature would have a huge negative environmental impact on the surrounding area.

「委員會多次告訴豪厄爾斯先生，根據我們的環境許可證，不可能進行挖掘工作，而且這種性質的工作將對周圍地區的環境產生巨大的負面影響。

"The council is the only body authorised to carry out operations on the site. Mr Howells's claim has no merit, and the council is vigorously resisting it."

「該委員會是唯一有權在該地點開展行動的機構。豪厄爾斯先生的說法毫無根據，該委員會正在大力抵制。”