寒冷的2月早晨，科林·伯吉斯（Kolin Burges）在戈克斯山（Gox Tokyo）辦公室外面抗議時，要求答案

十一年後，加密貨幣第一個重大金融醜聞的象徵標誌性標誌正在恐嚇上拍賣。城市的儲備價為4.5 BTC。

One cold February morning in 2014, Kolin Burges stood outside Mt. Gox's Tokyo office, clutching a handwritten cardboard sign and demanding answers from the bitcoin exchange's CEO, Mark Karpeles, about his missing tokens.

2014年2月的一個寒冷的早晨，科林·伯吉（Kolin Burges）站在戈克斯山（Gox Tokyo）辦公室外面，抓著手寫的紙板標誌，並要求比特幣交易所的首席執行官馬克·卡佩雷斯（Mark Karpeles）對他的失踪令牌進行答案。

Eleven years later, the iconic sign, emblematic of crypto's first major financial scandal, is being auctioned on Scare.City with a reserve price of 4.5 BTC (about $383,000). The sale starts later Friday and ends April 3.

十一年後，加密貨幣第一個重大金融醜聞的象徵標誌性標誌正在恐嚇上拍賣。銷售從星期五晚些時候開始，於4月3日結束。

"At the time, it didn't even cross my mind it could become valuable," Burges said.

伯吉斯說：“當時，它甚至沒有跨越我的腦海，它可能會變得有價值。”

"I thought maybe I'd write a book someday, but the sign itself never seemed important. It's remarkable how things have evolved."

“我想也許我有一天會寫一本書，但是標誌本身似乎從來都不重要。這是非常了不起的事情。”

Burges had flown from London to Tokyo after Mt. Gox, then the world's largest bitcoin exchange, mysteriously froze withdrawals.

當時是世界上最大的比特幣交易所戈克斯山之後，伯吉斯從倫敦飛往東京，神秘地戒斷了。

"I woke up one morning and knew I had to go to Tokyo," Burges recalled.

伯吉回憶說：“我有一天早上醒了，知道我必須去東京。”

"I didn't really have a detailed plan. I just knew I had to be there.

“我真的沒有一個詳細的計劃。我只是知道我必須在那裡。

"When the withdrawal didn't arrive, I started feeling this growing sense of dread. At first, I wasn't 100% sure, but as time went on, it became increasingly clear something was very wrong."

“當撤回沒有到達時，我開始感到這種恐懼感。起初，我不確定，但是隨著時間的流逝，越來越明顯的事情變得非常錯誤。”

His impromptu protest quickly gained international media attention, even attracting the notice of mainstream financial press like the Wall Street Journal.

他的即興抗議迅速引起了國際媒體的關注，甚至吸引了像《華爾街日報》一樣的主流金融出版社的通知。

Burges recalled those initial days in Tokyo as dreamlike and almost otherworldly.

伯吉（Burges）回憶起東京的最初日子，就像夢幻一樣，幾乎超凡脫俗。

"The moment I confronted Karpeles was intense," he remembered. "I demanded answers, but he just brushed me off, blaming technical issues. It felt surreal, standing there in the snow, knowing something major was unfolding."

他記得：“我面對卡佩萊斯的那一刻很激烈。” “我要求答案，但他只是把我甩開了，指責技術問題。感覺超現實，站在雪地裡，知道主要的事情正在發生。”

As Burges protested outside Mt. Gox's offices, the exchange's attempts to mitigate the public fallout became increasingly evident.

當Burges在Gox山的辦公室外面抗議時，該交易所減輕公共影響的嘗試變得越來越明顯。

"Mt. Gox kept dangling hope, but everyone could see the situation spiraling out of control," Burges said. "They even invited us inside to protest privately. Anything to remove us from public view. It was ridiculous and desperate."

伯吉斯說：“戈克斯山一直在懸而未決，但每個人都可以看到這種情況失控了。” “他們甚至邀請我們在裡面進行私人抗議。任何事情都可以從公眾視野中消除我們。這是荒謬而絕望的。”

Burges recalls how over drinks, someone from Mt. Gox, whom he declined to name, privately pressured him to cut it out.

伯吉回憶起他拒絕命名的戈克斯山的某人過度的飲料，私下向他施加壓力。

"At one point, Mt. Gox representatives met me secretly, warning that continued protests would cause the exchange to collapse and everyone would lose their bitcoins," he said. "That conversation made it clear they knew more than they admitted, and the situation was far worse than publicly acknowledged."

他說：“有一次，戈克斯山的代表秘密地見了我，警告說，持續的抗議活動將導致交換崩潰，每個人都會失去他們的比特幣。” “這次談話清楚地表明，他們知道的比他們所承認的要多，而且情況遠比公開承認的要差。”

Then, Burges recollects, one representative tried paying for their drinks with a Mt. Gox credit card — and it was declined.

然後，伯吉（Burges）回憶起，一位代表試圖用山頂信用卡（Mt. Gox）信用卡為自己的飲料付款，並被拒絕。

"It was an ominous sign their banking relationships were unraveling," Burges said.

伯格斯說：“這是他們的銀行關係正在揭露的不祥跡象。”

Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy in February 2014, days after Burges started his protest.

伯吉斯開始抗議活動的幾天后，Gox山於2014年2月申請破產。

Seven years later, Karpeles was found innocent of embezzlement in a Tokyo court, while receiving a suspended sentence for manipulating data.

七年後，卡佩萊斯在東京法院被發現無辜，同時因操縱數據而被緩刑。

Last September, Karpeles set up a new crypto exchange, EllipX. He also established a crypto ratings company called Ungox in 2022.

去年9月，Karpeles建立了新的加密交易所Ellipx。他還在2022年成立了一家名為ungox的加密評分公司。

In an interview with CoinDesk on the sidelines of Korea Blockchain Week in August 2024, Karples said that if he had modern blockchain analytical tools in 2014, and third-party custodians, Mt. Gox "wouldn't have happened."

在2024年8月在韓國區塊鏈週的旁觀中接受Coindesk的採訪時，Karples說，如果他在2014年擁有現代的區塊鏈分析工具，而第三方保管人則是Gox山山“就不會發生”。