IT 工程师 James Howells 在为比特币硬盘挖掘垃圾填埋场的诉讼中败诉

James Howells 在 2009 年开采了比特币，当时它几乎一文不值，并在 2013 年清理办公室时意外丢弃了硬盘。

A Welsh IT engineer has lost his bid to excavate a landfill in Newport to search for a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin, now valued at over $750 million.

一名威尔士 IT 工程师在纽波特的一个垃圾填埋场挖掘装有 8,000 比特币的硬盘（目前价值超过 7.5 亿美元）的投标中失败了。

James Howells, who mined the Bitcoin in 2009, claimed to have accidentally discarded the hard drive in his garbage during an office clear-out in 2013.

2009 年开采比特币的詹姆斯·豪厄尔斯 (James Howells) 声称，他在 2013 年办公室清理期间不小心将硬盘扔进了垃圾箱。

He has since faced legal hurdles in his attempts to retrieve the device from the landfill, which is owned by Newport City Council.

此后，他在试图从纽波特市议会拥有的垃圾填埋场取回该设备时遇到了法律障碍。

After several failed attempts to gain permission to excavate the site, Howells faced a UK court in his latest bid to either gain access to the landfill or be awarded $608 million in damages.

在多次尝试获得挖掘该场地的许可失败后，豪厄尔斯最近一次向英国法院提出要求，要么获得进入垃圾填埋场的许可，要么获得 6.08 亿美元的损害赔偿。

However, Judge Keyser KC ruled that Howells’ claim had “no realistic prospect” of succeeding at trial.

然而，凯瑟·KC 法官裁定，豪厄尔斯的主张“没有现实的前景”能够在审判中取得成功。

The court upheld the council's stance that the excavation would breach environmental permits and pose significant ecological risks, effectively ending Howells’ excavation efforts.

法院维持了该委员会的立场，即挖掘活动将违反环境许可并构成重大生态风险，从而有效结束了豪厄尔斯的挖掘工作。

After mining the Bitcoin in 2009, when it was nearly worthless, Howells went on to discard the hard drive during an office cleanup in 2013.

2009 年开采比特币后，当时比特币几乎一文不值，豪厄尔斯在 2013 年办公室清理期间丢弃了硬盘。

He has since faced a decade-long struggle to retrieve the device from the Newport landfill.

此后，他为从纽波特垃圾填埋场取回该设备付出了长达十年的努力。

Despite offering 10% of the potential recovery and proposing a £10 million excavation plan funded by investors, the council has consistently denied his requests.

尽管提供了 10% 的潜在回收率，并提议由投资者资助 1000 万英镑的挖掘计划，但该委员会始终拒绝他的请求。

In his latest legal move, Howells sought either access to the landfill or $608 million in damages.

在豪厄尔斯最新的法律行动中，他寻求要么进入垃圾填埋场，要么赔偿 6.08 亿美元的损失。

However, the council countered that the hard drive became its property upon entering the landfill, a point the court upheld.

然而，该委员会反驳说，硬盘在进入垃圾填埋场后就成为其财产，法院维持了这一点。

The council cited the risk of environmental damage as a key reason for denying the excavation.

该委员会将环境破坏的风险作为拒绝挖掘的主要原因。

Howells had previously accused the council of environmental violations, claiming the landfill was already leeching toxins like arsenic.

豪厄尔斯此前曾指责该委员会违反环境规定，声称垃圾填埋场已经在渗出砷等毒素。

However, the court sided with the council's assessment of the environmental impact.

然而，法院支持市议会对环境影响的评估。

Following the court's ruling, Howells stated that he would not give up and that he planned to tokenize the inaccessible Bitcoin into a new cryptocurrency, viewing the landfill as a “super-duper storage vault.”

在法院做出裁决后，豪厄尔斯表示他不会放弃，他计划将无法访问的比特币标记为一种新的加密货币，并将垃圾填埋场视为“超级存储金库”。

While the legal battle over the landfill appears to be over, Howells is not giving up on finding an alternative way to recover his fortune.

虽然围绕垃圾填埋场的法律斗争似乎已经结束，但豪厄尔斯并没有放弃寻找替代方法来收回自己的财富。