专家表示，失去比特币财富的人可能可以通过另一种方式取回它

James Howells 声称他的硬盘上存有大约 8,000 个比特币，是他的前合伙人在清理办公室时不小心扔掉的。

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.

据一位专家称，一名男子声称自己的硬盘上存有大约 8,000 比特币，他的前伴侣在清理他的办公室时不小心扔掉了这些比特币，但他或许可以通过其他方式取回这些比特币。

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·豪厄尔斯 (James Howells) 将加密货币保存在硬盘上，并将其放在南威尔士纽波特以前办公室的抽屉里。

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.

他说，他的前伴侣被要求清理办公室并扔掉垃圾，但她不小心把硬盘放进了垃圾袋。

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.

意识到这个错误后，豪厄尔斯一直试图让纽波特市议会允许他将硬盘从他所说的埋在其中的垃圾填埋场中挖出来。

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

他甚至起诉了该委员会，试图获得开采比特币的许可。

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.

豪厄尔斯认为他确切地知道硬盘在哪里，尽管它被扔掉已经有十多年了，所以它是否处于可以再次使用的状态是任何人的猜测。

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.

随着比特币价值的攀升，他的宝藏价值不断增加，现在价值约为 5.69 亿英镑，所以你可以理解为什么他想把它拿回来。

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'.

该委员会表示，对该地点进行挖掘是“不可能的”，并警告说，让豪厄尔斯挖掘垃圾填埋场将会产生“巨大的环境影响”。

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.

豪厄尔斯此前向当地提供了 25% 的比特币宝藏来资助社区项目，后来当他聚集投资者支持他恢复硬盘的尝试时，他将这一数额减少到了 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.

但据一位加密货币专家称，他可能不必去挖掘，他说可能还有另一种方式来收回资金。

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·琼斯在接受《每日邮报》采访时表示，如果豪厄尔斯仍然拥有他的比特币钱包的“种子短语”，那么他也许能够拿回“钥匙”。

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.

这是至关重要的事情，“钥匙”在硬盘上，如果他对“种子短语”（一系列随机单词）有一些记录或记忆，那么豪厄尔斯也许能够重新进入。

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

琼斯解释说：“所以，只要他有这个，他就可以赚到钱。如果他没有，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.

他补充说，如果没有密钥或种子短语，进入加密货币钱包“在计算上是不可行的”，所以你希望豪厄尔斯把它写在某个地方，只是不知道这些随机单词可能掌握着密钥到他被遗忘的财富。

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.

对于豪厄尔斯来说，可悲的是，加密货币调查员保罗·西贝尼克（Paul Sibenik）告诉《每日邮报》，甚至可能没有助记词，这意味着除非他能找到带有原始密钥的硬盘，否则他就完蛋了。

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，如果没有硬盘驱动器，比特币将“永远无法访问”，因此尝试获得挖掘许可的 A 计划似乎仍然是他最好的选择。