
• 一名英国男子希望从该市垃圾填埋场找回一个装有比特币的硬盘,为此他提出购买该垃圾填埋场。该硬盘的所有者称,这个钱包如今价值近7.7亿美元。
詹姆斯·豪威尔斯(James Howells)在过去的12年里一直试图说服英国纽波特市的官员允许他搜查该市的垃圾填埋场,如今他提出购买该垃圾填埋场。
豪威尔斯认为,该垃圾填埋场中埋藏着他的一块旧硬盘,里面存储着价值近7.7亿美元的比特币。今年1月,他试图通过法律途径挖掘硬盘的努力宣告失败,当时一名法官裁定,若案件继续推进,他“成功的可能性微乎其微”。
然而,今年,该垃圾填埋场将被关闭,据报道将被一座太阳能发电场取代。豪威尔斯认为这是一个机会。
他在接受英国媒体《地铁报》采访时表示:“市议会这么快就计划关闭垃圾填埋场,这着实令人意外,尤其是他们之前在高等法院声称,关闭垃圾填埋场让我进行搜查会对纽波特居民产生极大的不利影响,而与此同时,他们竟然计划关闭垃圾填埋场。我对购买该垃圾填埋场颇感兴趣。最近,我与投资伙伴探讨了这一方案,这确实是个非常可行的选择。”
整个事件的起因要追溯到2013年的夏天,当时豪威尔斯不慎将装有比特币钱包(内有7500枚比特币)的笔记本电脑放在家中客厅的一个黑色袋子里。他当时的伴侣以为袋子里装的是垃圾,便将其丢弃。
当时,一枚比特币的价格在100美元左右。如今,这一数字接近9.7万美元。
豪威尔斯提出与纽波特市平分钱包里比特币的价值,并表示愿意自行承担挖掘所需的费用。官员们坚持认为,由于环境许可证的限制,挖掘工作无法进行,而且硬盘一进入垃圾填埋场就归市政府所有。(财富中文网)
译者:中慧言-王芳
• 一名英国男子希望从该市垃圾填埋场找回一个装有比特币的硬盘,为此他提出购买该垃圾填埋场。该硬盘的所有者称,这个钱包如今价值近7.7亿美元。
詹姆斯·豪威尔斯(James Howells)在过去的12年里一直试图说服英国纽波特市的官员允许他搜查该市的垃圾填埋场,如今他提出购买该垃圾填埋场。
豪威尔斯认为,该垃圾填埋场中埋藏着他的一块旧硬盘,里面存储着价值近7.7亿美元的比特币。今年1月,他试图通过法律途径挖掘硬盘的努力宣告失败,当时一名法官裁定,若案件继续推进,他“成功的可能性微乎其微”。
然而,今年,该垃圾填埋场将被关闭,据报道将被一座太阳能发电场取代。豪威尔斯认为这是一个机会。
他在接受英国媒体《地铁报》采访时表示:“市议会这么快就计划关闭垃圾填埋场,这着实令人意外,尤其是他们之前在高等法院声称,关闭垃圾填埋场让我进行搜查会对纽波特居民产生极大的不利影响,而与此同时,他们竟然计划关闭垃圾填埋场。我对购买该垃圾填埋场颇感兴趣。最近,我与投资伙伴探讨了这一方案,这确实是个非常可行的选择。”
整个事件的起因要追溯到2013年的夏天,当时豪威尔斯不慎将装有比特币钱包(内有7500枚比特币)的笔记本电脑放在家中客厅的一个黑色袋子里。他当时的伴侣以为袋子里装的是垃圾,便将其丢弃。
当时,一枚比特币的价格在100美元左右。如今,这一数字接近9.7万美元。
豪威尔斯提出与纽波特市平分钱包里比特币的价值,并表示愿意自行承担挖掘所需的费用。官员们坚持认为,由于环境许可证的限制,挖掘工作无法进行,而且硬盘一进入垃圾填埋场就归市政府所有。(财富中文网)
译者:中慧言-王芳
• A U.K. man hoping to retrieve a Bitcoin-laden hard drive from a city dump is offering to buy the landfill. That wallet today, the owner says, is worth nearly $770 million.
James Howells, who has spent the last 12 years trying to convince officials in the U.K. city of Newport to let him explore the city landfill, is now offering to buy the dump.
Howells believes the landfill contains an old hard drive of his that contains almost $770 million in Bitcoin. His attempts to excavate the drive through legal means hit a dead end in January, when a judge ruled he had “no realistic prospect of succeeding” in his effort if the case were to continue.
This year, however, the landfill is being closed and will reportedly be replaced by a solar farm. And Howells sees that as an opening.
“The council planning on closing the landfill so soon is quite a surprise, especially since it claimed at the High Court that closing the landfill to allow me to search would have a huge detrimental impact on the people of Newport, whilst at the same time they were planning to close the landfill anyway,” he told the UK media outlet Metro. “I would be potentially interested in purchasing the landfill site. I have discussed this option recently with investment partners and it is very much on the table.”
The whole situation started in the summer of 2013, when Howells accidentally put a laptop that contained his Bitcoin wallet (with 7,500 Bitcoin) in a black bag in the hall of his house. His partner at the time assumed the bag was filled with trash and disposed of it.
At the time, the price of a single Bitcoin was in the neighborhood of $100. Today, that stands at nearly $97,000.
Howells offered to split the value of the Bitcoin in the wallet with the city of Newport and had said he would pay for the excavation himself. Officials insist a search is impossible due to environmental permits—and that the hard drive became city property as soon as it entered the landfill.