男子扔掉装有价值 5 亿英镑比特币的硬盘后表示希望并未丧失

39 岁的詹姆斯·豪厄尔斯 (James Howells) 表示，十年前，当他当时的伴侣哈菲娜·艾迪·埃文斯 (Halfina Eddy-Evans) 扔掉了一个装有电脑驱动器的黑色垃圾袋时，他的财富梦想就破灭了。

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.

一名男子的伴侣扔掉了他的硬盘，里面装有比特币，现在价值超过 5 亿英镑，他被告知希望不会消失——如果他使用了正确的短语。

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 岁的詹姆斯·豪厄尔斯 (James Howells) 表示，十年前，当他当时的伴侣哈菲娜·艾迪·埃文斯 (Halfina Eddy-Evans) 扔掉了一个装有电脑驱动器的黑色垃圾袋时，他的财富梦想就破灭了。他在 2009 年开采了大约 8,000 个比特币，据说价值 5.69 亿英镑。

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.

纽波特市议会拒绝他进入垃圾填埋场，导致他采取法律行动。但现在专家表示，豪厄尔斯先生仍然可以获得他的资金——如果他使用了正确的措辞的话。

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

加密货币专家哈丁·琼斯 (Hadyn Jones) 告诉《每日邮报》：“如果他在物理位置记录了助记词，那么这就是可能的。

'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.'

只要他有那张纸，这很容易做到。所以，只要他有这个，他就有钱。如果他没有，那就是sayōnara。

“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.”

“没有可计算的可行方法来破解该私钥。从计算角度来说，破解它是不可能的——宇宙中没有足够的时间来做到这一点。”

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.

本周早些时候，他的前搭档哈尔菲娜说：“是的，我扔掉了他的垃圾，他要求我这么做。电脑部件和其他不需要的物品一起被装在一个黑色袋子里，他恳求我把它拿走。”

“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.

“我不知道里面装的是什么，但我在学校跑步回家的路上不情愿地将它扔到了当地的小费处。我认为他应该跑腿，而不是我，但我这样做是为了帮忙。

“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."

“失去它不是我的错。我最希望他能找到它。我听腻了这件事。”

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.

纽波特市议会的一位发言人在谈到他试图访问该网站取回硬盘时表示：“自 2013 年以来，我们多次联系纽波特市议会，询问是否有可能取回据说位于我们垃圾填埋场的 IT 硬件。

"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.

“该委员会多次告诉豪厄尔斯先生，根据我们的环境许可证，不可能进行挖掘工作，而且这种性质的工作将对周围地区的环境产生巨大的负面影响。

"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."

“该委员会是唯一有权在该地点开展行动的机构。豪厄尔斯先生的说法毫无根据，该委员会正在大力抵制。”