比特幣大謎團：誰是中本聰？

彼得‧托德站在捷克某處一棟破舊工業建築的樓上，低聲竊笑。

Peter Todd chuckled under his breath as he stood on the upper floor of a dilapidated industrial building in Czechia. He had just been accused on camera of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin creator, whose identity has remained a burning question for 15 years.

彼得·托德站在捷克一座破舊工業建築的樓上，低聲笑了起來。他剛剛在鏡頭前被指控為比特幣創造者中本聰，15 年來，他的身份一直是一個緊迫的問題。

In the final scene of Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, a new HBO documentary, documentarian Cullen Hoback confronted Todd with the theory that he is Satoshi. In a previous work, Hoback unmasked the figure behind QAnon. Here, he attempted to repeat the trick with Bitcoin.

在 HBO 的新紀錄片《金錢電力：比特幣之謎》的最後一幕中，紀錄片導演卡倫·霍巴克 (Cullen Hoback) 向托德提出了他是中本聰的理論。在之前的作品中，霍巴克揭露了 QAnon 背後的人物。在這裡，他試圖用比特幣重複這個伎倆。

“I will admit, you’re pretty creative—you come up with some crazy theories,” Todd told Hoback, before rejecting the idea as “ludicrous.” “I warn you, this is going to be very funny when you put this into the documentary.”

「我承認，你很有創意——你想出了一些瘋狂的理論，」托德告訴霍巴克，然後拒絕了這個想法，稱其「荒謬」。 “我警告你，當你把這個放進紀錄片時，這會非常有趣。”

The film stopped short of claiming to have conclusively unmasked the creator of Bitcoin, in the absence of incontrovertible proof. “For the record, I am not Satoshi,” Todd said in an email. “It is a useless question, because Satoshi would simply deny it.”

在缺乏無可爭議的證據的情況下，這部電影並沒有聲稱最終揭露了比特幣創造者的真面目。 「鄭重聲明，我不是中本聰，」托德在一封電子郵件中說道。 “這是一個無用的問題，因為中本聰只會否認這一點。”

The WIRED Guide to BitcoinThe Hunt for Bitcoin's Creator: Everyone Is Satoshi, and No One Is

比特幣連線指南尋找比特幣創造者：每個人都是中本聰，但沒有人是中本聰

The hunt for Bitcoin’s creator has yielded a broad cast of Satoshis over the years, among them Hal Finney, recipient of the first ever bitcoin transaction; Adam Back, designer of a precursor technology cited in the Bitcoin white paper; and cryptographer Nick Szabo, to name just a few. The finger is pointed at some; others elect themselves. But though Satoshi has had many faces, a consensus has formed around none of them.

多年來，對比特幣創造者的追捕已經產生了眾多中本聰，其中包括有史以來第一筆比特幣交易的接收者哈爾·芬尼 (Hal Finney)； Adam Back，比特幣白皮書中引用的先驅技術的設計者；密碼學家 Nick Szabo 等等。手指指向某些人；其他人自己選舉。儘管中本聰有許多面孔，但沒有一個人圍繞中本聰形成共識。

“People have suspected basically everyone of being Satoshi,” Todd pointed out early in the documentary. “The problem with this kind of stuff is that people play all these crazy games.”

「人們基本上懷疑每個人都是中本聰，」托德在紀錄片的早期指出。 “這類東西的問題在於人們玩這些瘋狂的遊戲。”

WIRED has its own place in the history of the hunt for Satoshi. On the same day in December 2015, WIRED and Gizmodo separately nominated Australian computer scientist Craig Wright as a potential Satoshi. The original story, based on a trove of leaked documents, proposed that Wright had “either invented Bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did.” A few days later, WIRED published a second story, pointing to discrepancies in the evidence that supported the latter interpretation.

《連線》在尋找中本聰的歷史上佔有一席之地。 2015 年 12 月的同一天，《連線》和《Gizmodo》分別提名澳洲電腦科學家克雷格懷特 (Craig Wright) 為潛在的中本聰。最初的故事基於大量洩露的文件，提出賴特“要么發明了比特幣，要么是一個出色的騙子，他非常想讓我們相信他發明了比特幣。”幾天后，《連線》雜誌發表了第二篇報道，指出支持後一種解釋的證據存在差異。

In March, a judge in the UK High Court ruled categorically that Wright is not Satoshi, closing a case brought by a group of crypto firms to prevent the Australian from bringing nuisance legal claims.

今年 3 月，英國高等法院的一名法官斷然裁定賴特不是中本聰，結束了由一群加密貨幣公司提起的訴訟，以防止澳洲人提出滋擾的法律索賠。

During the two months I spent covering the Wright trial, multiple Satoshis appeared in my inbox, too. “The world is not ready to learn about Satoshi Nakamoto, and they never will unless certain conditions are met,” wrote one of them, in a garbled message.

在我報道賴特審判的兩個月裡，我的收件匣中也出現了多個中本聰。 「世界還沒準備好了解中本聰，除非滿足某些條件，否則他們永遠不會這樣做，」其中一位在一條亂碼訊息中寫道。

Hell, I even met a would-be Satoshi in-person, in the waiting area outside the courtroom. The man, who had introduced himself as Satoshi, sat down in the public gallery to hear closing arguments. Before long, he nodded off, chin slumped against chest. One of the other onlookers anointed him “Sleeptoshi.”

天哪，我甚至在法庭外的等候區見到了一位未來的中本聰。這名自稱中本聰的男子坐在公眾旁聽席上聽取結案陳詞。沒多久，他就睡著了，下巴抵在胸口。另一位旁觀者稱他為「睡眠者」。

Plenty of bitcoiners welcome this strange, crypto version of “I Am Spartacus,” preferring that the identity of Bitcoin’s creator forever remain a mystery. Free from the overbearing influence of a founder, Bitcoin has evolved under a system of unspoiled anarchy, they say, in which nobody’s opinion is worth more than any other. Everyone is Satoshi, and nobody is Satoshi.

許多比特幣愛好者歡迎這種奇怪的加密版本的“我是斯巴達克斯”，他們更希望比特幣創造者的身份永遠是一個謎。他們說，比特幣沒有受到創始人的專橫影響，而是在一個未受破壞的無政府狀態體系下發展起來的，在這個體系中，沒有人的意見比其他人的意見更有價值。每個人都是中本聰，但沒有人是中本聰。