專家表示，失去比特幣財富的人可能可以透過另一種方式取回它

James Howells 聲稱他的硬碟上存有大約 8,000 個比特幣，是他的前合夥人在清理辦公室時不小心扔掉的。

A bloke who claims he had about 8,000 Bitcoin on a hard drive, which his former partner accidentally threw out while she was clearing out his office, might be able to get it back some other way, according to an expert.

據一位專家稱，一名男子聲稱自己的硬碟上存有大約8,000 比特幣，他的前伴侶在清理他的辦公室時不小心扔掉了這些比特幣，但他或許可以透過其他方式取回這些比特幣。

James Howells had the cryptocurrency on a hard drive, which he kept in a drawer at his former office in Newport, South Wales.

詹姆斯·豪厄爾斯 (James Howells) 將加密貨幣保存在硬碟上，並將其放在南威爾斯紐波特以前辦公室的抽屜裡。

He said his ex-partner was asked to clear out the office and throw away his rubbish, but she accidentally included the hard drive in the bin bag.

他說，他的前伴侶被要求清理辦公室並扔掉垃圾，但她不小心把硬碟放進了垃圾袋。

After realising the mistake, Howells has been trying to get Newport City Council to let him dig his hard drive out of the landfill site he says it's buried in.

意識到這個錯誤後，豪厄爾斯一直試圖讓紐波特市議會允許他將硬碟從他所說的埋在其中的垃圾掩埋場中挖出來。

He has even sued the council in an attempt to get the green light to go mining for Bitcoin.

他甚至起訴了該委員會，試圖獲得開採比特幣的許可。

Howells reckons he knows exactly where the hard drive is, though it's been over a decade since it was thrown away, so whether or not it's in any condition to be usable again is anybody's guess.

豪厄爾斯認為他確切地知道硬碟在哪裡，儘管它被扔掉已經有十多年了，所以它是否處於可以再次使用的狀態是任何人的猜測。

With the value of Bitcoin climbing, the amount his treasure trove is worth keeps increasing and it's now worth somewhere in the region of £569 million, so you can understand why he'd want to have it back.

隨著比特幣價值的攀升，他的寶藏價值不斷增加，現在價值約為 5.69 億英鎊，所以你可以理解為什麼他想把它拿回來。

The council has said an excavation of the site is 'not possible' and warned that letting Howells dig up the landfill site would have a 'huge environmental impact'.

該委員會表示，對該地點進行挖掘是“不可能的”，並警告說，讓豪厄爾斯挖掘垃圾掩埋場將會產生“巨大的環境影響”。

Howells previously offered the local area 25 percent of the Bitcoin treasure to fund community projects, which he later reduced to 10 percent as he gathered investors to back his attempts to recover the hard drive.

豪厄爾斯此前向當地提供了 25% 的比特幣寶藏來資助社區項目，後來當他聚集投資者支持他恢復硬碟的嘗試時，他將這一數額減少到了 10%。

But he might not have to go digging according to a cryptocurrency expert, who said there might be another way for him to recover his funds.

但據一位加密貨幣專家稱，他可能不必去挖掘，他說可能還有另一種方式來收回資金。

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Hadyn Jones said that if Howells still had the 'seed phrase' for his Bitcoin wallet then he might be able to get the 'key' back.

哈丁瓊斯在接受《每日郵報》採訪時表示，如果豪厄爾斯仍然擁有他的比特幣錢包的“種子短語”，那麼他也許能夠拿回“鑰匙”。

That's rather the crucial thing here, the 'key' is on the hard drive and if he has some record or memory of the 'seed phrase', a series of random words, then Howells might be able to get back in.

這是至關重要的事情，「鑰匙」在硬碟上，如果他對「種子短語」（一系列隨機單字）有一些記錄或記憶，那麼豪厄爾斯也許能夠重新進入。

Jones explained: "So, as long as he has that, he is quids in. If he doesn't, it's sayōnara."

瓊斯解釋說：“所以，只要他有這個，他就可以賺到錢。如果他沒有，那就是sayōnara。”

He added that without the key or the seed phrase it would be 'computably infeasible' to get into the cryptocurrency wallet, so you'd hope that Howells has written it down somewhere and just didn't know that these random words might hold the key to his forgotten fortune.

他補充說，如果沒有密鑰或種子短語，進入加密貨幣錢包“在計算上是不可行的”，所以你希望豪厄爾斯把它寫在某個地方，只是不知道這些隨機單字可能掌握著密鑰到他被遺忘的財富。

Sadly for Howells, cryptocurrency investigator Paul Sibenik told the Mail there might not even be a seed phrase, which would mean that unless he can find the hard drive with the original key on it he's screwed.

對豪厄爾斯來說，可悲的是，加密貨幣調查員保羅·西貝尼克（Paul Sibenik）告訴《每日郵報》，甚至可能沒有助記詞，這意味著除非他能找到帶有原始密鑰的硬碟，否則他就完蛋了。

He said that the Bitcoin would be 'inaccessible forever' without the hard drive, so it'd seem like plan A of trying to get permission to dig it out is still his best bet.

他表示，如果沒有硬碟驅動器，比特幣將“永遠無法訪問”，因此嘗試獲得挖掘許可的 A 計劃似乎仍然是他最好的選擇。