《法律的重錘重重敲下：自以為凌駕於法律之上的加密貨幣‘兄弟’將面臨正義”

當正義最終對那些藐視法律的「加密貨幣兄弟」進行製裁時，現實卻遭到了猛烈的打擊。三箭資本聯合創辦人凱爾戴維斯（Kyle Davies）曾經是不可觸碰的，現在卻面臨密切關注。 2022 年中期的破產暴露了他們魯莽行為的真正代價，給投資者留下了一系列損失。法律已經說了話，曾經所向無敵的人現在似乎正面臨他們誤導的後果。

I don’t like saying ‘I told you so,’ but I can’t help but notice all the ‘crypto bros’ who thought themselves above the law are slowly but surely being shown the error of their ways.

我不喜歡說“我告訴過你了”，但我不禁注意到所有自認為凌駕於法律之上的“加密貨幣兄弟”正在慢慢但肯定地被證明他們的做法是錯誤的。

I caught some of the interview that Three Arrows Capital (3AC) co-founder Kyle Davies gave to journalist Laura Shin last week. Davies has some nerve giving long-form, on-camera interviews, considering that 3AC’s mid-2022 bankruptcy led to billions of dollars in losses for both institutional and retail investors.

我看到了三箭資本 (3AC) 聯合創始人凱爾戴維斯 (Kyle Davies) 上週對記者勞拉辛 (Laura Shin) 的一些採訪。考慮到 3AC 在 2022 年中期破產給機構投資者和散戶投資者帶來了數十億美元的損失，戴維斯有勇氣接受長篇鏡頭採訪。

But despite a well-documented history of self-interested dealing by Davies and his 3AC partner Su Zhu, Davies expressed zero remorse for his actions. In fact, he showed something resembling pride in acknowledging his lack of cooperation with the authorities looking into 3AC’s demise.

儘管戴維斯和他的 3AC 合夥人蘇朱有充分記錄的自利交易歷史，但戴維斯對自己的行為表示零悔意。事實上，他在承認自己沒有配合當局調查 3AC 的滅亡時，表現出了某種類似自豪的情緒。

Following the interview, Davies suggested that he and Su “devoutly believed in up only forever. Still do.” Davies implied that companies that trusted their money to 3AC’s leadership had only themselves to blame, having chosen to “gamble their own low-risk client’s funds on a high-risk thesis.”

採訪結束後，戴維斯表示，他和蘇「虔誠地相信永遠」。還是這樣。”戴維斯暗示，那些將資金託付給 3AC 領導層的公司只能怪自己，因為他們選擇「把自己的低風險客戶的資金押在高風險的論文上」。

Let’s be clear: believing in ‘up only forever’ isn’t high-risk, it’s insanity. And yet, Davies and Su have gone on to launch new ill-fated ‘crypto’ projects, seemingly convinced that they can just go on stealing forever without consequences (or in Su’s case, a brief stay in a Singapore prison cell for trying to skip town before investigators were done probing 3AC’s collapse).

讓我們明確一點：相信「永遠向上」不是高風險，而是瘋狂。然而，戴維斯和蘇繼續啟動了新的命運多舛的「加密貨幣」項目，似乎相信他們可以永遠繼續偷竊而不會產生任何後果（或者在甦的例子中，因為試圖跳過而在新加坡監獄牢房短暫停留）在調查人員完成對 3AC 倒閉事件的調查之前，曾在該鎮進行過調查）。

Listening to Davies justify all his crimes while wearing a smug, self-satisfied grin, all I could think of was that psycho-Goofy meme “I’ll f*ckin’ do it again.” That might as well be the motto of the broader ‘crypto’ sector. Or at least it was, until legal authorities around the globe finally realized that they already had laws on their books to take action against old-fashioned criminals using high-tech tools to rob people blind.

聽著戴維斯一邊自鳴得意、自鳴得意地笑著為他所有的罪行辯護，我所能想到的就是那句心理高飛模因“我他媽的會再做一次。”這也可能是更廣泛的「加密」產業的座右銘。或者至少是這樣，直到全球各地的法律當局最終意識到他們已經制定了法律，對使用高科技工具進行盲目搶劫的老式犯罪分子採取行動。

The ever-expanding criminal lineup

不斷擴大的犯罪陣容

Former FTX blunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) will be sentenced later this week for the crimes that led to FTX’s demise. Like Davies, SBF has shown little remorse for his actions, despite a flood of victim impact statements detailing the very real harm inflicted by his belief that he was above the law. SBF could be looking at decades behind bars, a scenario that still might fail to satisfy the masses baying for his blood.

前 FTX 犯人 Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) 將於本週晚些時候因導致 FTX 滅亡的罪行而被判刑。和戴維斯一樣，SBF 並沒有對自己的行為表現出任何悔意，儘管大量受害者影響聲明詳細說明了他認為自己凌駕於法律之上所造成的真正傷害。 SBF 可能會面臨數十年的牢獄之災，這種情況可能仍然無法滿足要求他捐血的群眾。

Next month, a similar day of reckoning awaits Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of the Binance exchange. CZ thought ‘crypto’ was so unique and special that he could ignore any and all rules that interfered with his profits. That history will boomerang back on him big time when the judge announces how long CZ will have to spend in a U.S. prison cell.

下個月，幣安交易所創始人趙長鵬（CZ）也將迎來類似的清算日。 CZ 認為「加密貨幣」是如此獨特和特殊，以至於他可以忽略任何干擾他利潤的規則。當法官宣布 CZ 將在美國監獄牢房中度過多長時間時，這段歷史將在他身上重演。

Further down this road, Alex Mashinsky, former head of the Celsius Ponzi scheme, will face his own legal reckoning. Ditto for Richard Heart, whose performative luxury shopping sprees helped him fleece countless Hex ‘investors.’

沿著這條路走下去，攝氏龐氏騙局前負責人亞歷克斯·馬辛斯基（Alex Mashinsky）將面臨自己的法律清算。理查德·哈特 (Richard Heart) 也是如此，他的奢華購物狂潮幫助他騙取了無數 Hex「投資者」。

Davies, SBF, Mashinsky, Heart, Digital Currency Group’s Barry Silbert and countless others are all charter members of crypto’s ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’ ethos. It’s like some malignantly narcissistic superpower (more The Boys than The Avengers).

Davies、SBF、Mashinsky、Heart、數位貨幣集團的 Barry Silbert 以及無數其他人都是加密貨幣「我沒有做錯任何事」精神的創始成員。這就像某種惡性自戀的超級大國（更像是男孩們而不是復仇者聯盟）。

Then there’s all the crypto casinos posing as exchanges (Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Kraken,), hawking lottery tickets to the masses who’ve somehow been led to believe that token values travel in an ‘up only forever’ trajectory. These casinos rely on a steady stream of purpose-free shitcoins, new versions of which—thanks to Solana—are being created every minute. Incredibly, there are those who believe 2017’s initial coin offering (ICO) debacle deserved an encore.

然後還有所有冒充交易所的加密貨幣賭場（Coinbase（納斯達克股票代碼：COIN）、Kraken），向大眾兜售彩票，這些大眾不知何故被引導相信代幣價值沿著「永遠上漲」的軌跡傳播。這些賭場依賴源源不絕的無目的垃圾幣，感謝 Solana，每分鐘都在創建新版本的垃圾幣。令人難以置信的是，有些人認為 2017 年首次代幣發行 (ICO) 的慘敗值得重演。

Lurking behind all of this is Tether, without which the entire ‘crypto’ ecosystem would be exposed as a Potemkin village of wash trades and wafer-thin liquidity. Regardless of whether USDT is fully backed by real-world assets, Tether’s bigger challenge is shedding its well-earned reputation as the common coin of money launderers, drug traffickers, pig-butchering scammers and, yes, Islamic terrorists.

潛伏在這一切背後的是 Tether，如果沒有它，整個「加密貨幣」生態系統將暴露為清洗交易和流動性微薄的波將金村。無論 USDT 是否完全得到現實世界資產的支持，Tether 面臨的更大挑戰是擺脫其作為洗錢者、毒販、屠宰生豬詐騙者以及伊斯蘭恐怖分子的常見貨幣的名聲。

And last week brought word that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was investigating the Ethereum Foundation, reportedly due to the SEC’s belief that ETH is an unregistered security. A centralized authority issuing a token (mostly to themselves) whose value is projected to rise based on that same authority’s efforts, and now rewards a small core of ETH whales (also mostly themselves) for validating network transactions? You mean that unregistered security? Huh…

上週有消息稱，美國證券交易委員會 (SEC) 正在調查以太坊基金會，據報道，這是因為 SEC 認為 ETH 是未註冊的證券。一個中心化機構發行一種代幣（主要是給自己），其價值預計會根據同一機構的努力而上升，現在獎勵一小部分 ETH 鯨魚核心（也主要是他們自己）來驗證網路交易？您是指未註冊的證券嗎？呃…

Flawed tech leads to flawed goals

有缺陷的技術導致有缺陷的目標

The ICO encore is proof of the dearth of development that the overall blockchain sector has demonstrated over the past decade. With their technology unable to scale, these stunted blockchain backers are left recycling the same old scams. It’s perhaps even more outrageous that people continue to fall for these warmed-over grifts, but P.T. Barnum may have underestimated the size of the problem.

ICO encore 證明了整個區塊鏈產業在過去十年中缺乏發展。由於他們的技術無法擴展，這些發育不良的區塊鏈支持者只能回收同樣的舊騙局。更令人憤慨的是，人們繼續上當受騙，但 P.T.巴納姆可能低估了問題的嚴重性。

All that said, I take solace in the old adage that the wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine. Crypto bros may be forever trapped in a state of arrested adolescence, but it’s encouraging to see some of these overgrown adolescents being actually arrested and threatened with more than losing access to their PlayStations for a week.

綜上所述，我對一句古老的格言感到安慰：正義之輪轉動緩慢，但磨得很細。加密貨幣兄弟可能永遠陷入青春期被捕的狀態，但令人鼓舞的是，看到其中一些長大的青少年實際上被捕並受到威脅，不僅僅是一周內無法使用 PlayStation。

I take even greater solace in the ethical way the BSV Blockchain has operated since its launch as the original Bitcoin in 2009. The Bitcoin white paper was never the declaration of war on traditional finance that so many anarchists tried to portray it as, and BSV sees no inherent contradiction between its revolutionary technology and existing financial/legal guardrails.

我對 BSV 區塊鏈自 2009 年作為原始比特幣推出以來的道德運作方式感到更加安慰。比特幣白皮書從來都不是像許多無政府主義者試圖描繪的那樣向傳統金融宣戰，BSV 認為其革命性技術與現有的金融/法律護欄之間不存在內在矛盾。

For instance, BSV believes that victims of crime shouldn’t be forced to accept their losses
because of some quasi-religious adherence to the mantra of ‘not your keys, not your coins.’ The concept of justice should not take a back seat because some self-anointed high priests of tech don’t think you’re smart enough to join their club.

例如，BSV 認為，犯罪受害者不應該因為某種準宗教信仰「不是你的鑰匙，不是你的硬幣」而被迫接受自己的損失。正義的概念不應該退居二線，因為一些自封的科技大祭司認為你不夠聰明，無法加入他們的俱樂部。

BSV’s possibilities continue to expand with the long-awaited launch of the Teranode scaling solution. Teranode will allow the BSV Blockchain to vastly exceed the transaction-per-second limits of Visa and Mastercard, while doing so at a fraction of the costs of these ‘mature’ networks.

隨著期待已久的 Teranode 擴展解決方案的推出，BSV 的可能性繼續擴大。 Teranode 將允許 BSV 區塊鏈大大超過 Visa 和 Mastercard 的每秒交易限制，而成本只是這些「成熟」網路的一小部分。

Teranode’s overlay services will add even greater functionality to network nodes, while ensuring faster, more efficient transaction processing. Combined with BSV’s unparalleled, immutable data storage capacity, enterprises and governments continue to discover real-world, big-data solutions unavailable on any other chain.  

Teranode 的覆蓋服務將為網路節點添加更強大的功能，同時確保更快、更有效率的事務處理。結合 BSV 無與倫比的、不可變的資料儲存能力，企業和政府不斷發現任何其他鏈上無法提供的現實世界的大數據解決方案。

I’m in no way surprised that BSV is still regularly attacked by its rivals. BSV embarrasses the developers behind the other networks, who refuse to accept the fact that enterprise blockchain technology is capable of so much more than recreating feudalism with (naturally) themselves as the lords.

對於 BSV 仍然經常受到競爭對手的攻擊，我一點也不感到驚訝。 BSV 讓其他網路背後的開發者感到尷尬，他們拒絕接受這樣一個事實：企業區塊鏈技術的能力不僅僅是重建封建制度（自然地）讓他們自己成為領主。

BSV’s commitment to honoring the unilateral contract laid down by Satoshi Nakamoto will further set BSV apart from the pretender chains that offer the world little beyond false promises of instant wealth. I’ve only ever been in this space for the technology. With the criminals being pushed back into the shadows, maybe the world will finally be able to see the wealth of benefits this technology has to offer.

BSV 承諾遵守中本聰制定的單邊合同，這將進一步使BSV 與那些冒充區塊鏈的公司區分開來，這些冒充區塊鏈除了向世界提供即時財富的虛假承諾之外，幾乎沒有什麼用處。我進入這個領域只是為了技術。隨著犯罪者被推回幕後，也許世界最終將能夠看到這項技術所帶來的巨大好處。

After so many years of anarchy ruling the digital asset space, I’m encouraged by the restoration of sanity and the reassertion of the rule of law. BSV’s longstanding adherence to the rules will hold it in good stead when the authorities finish dealing with the unrepentant criminals still clinging to their anarchic fantasies. Goodbye and good riddance.

在數位資產領域經歷了多年的無政府狀態之後，我對理智的恢復和法治的重申感到鼓舞。噹噹局處理完那些仍堅持無政府主義幻想的頑固不化的罪犯時，BSV 長期以來對規則的遵守將使其保持良好的地位。再見，祝你擺脫困境。

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區塊鏈新手？請參閱 CoinGeek 的區塊鏈初學者部分，這是了解更多有關區塊鏈技術的終極資源指南。