MacBook 打敗了比特幣的邦妮和克萊德

史密森尼博物館的國家錢幣收藏是一份貨幣目錄。裡面藏有金條、60 萬張南方邦聯紙幣和 14 世紀的金幣。現在，它還存放著一台 MacBook，其中曾經藏有價值 36 億美元的被盜比特幣的鑰匙。

The National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Museum is a catalog of money. It houses gold bars, 600,000 Confederate banknotes, and gold coins from the 14th century. Now it also houses a MacBook, one that once contained the keys to $3.6 billion in stolen Bitcoin.

史密森尼博物館的國家錢幣收藏是一份貨幣目錄。裡面藏有金條、60 萬張南方邦聯紙幣和 14 世紀的金幣。現在，它還存放著一台 MacBook，其中曾經藏有價值 36 億美元的被盜比特幣的鑰匙。

Soon, the laptop will be on display at the museum as part of its “The Value of Money Gallery” where it will sit next to tea, stones, silver, gold, and seashells. The laptop once belonged to Chris Janczewski, an IRS Criminal Investigator who was involved in bringing down Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan [aka Razzlekhan].

很快，這款筆記型電腦將作為「貨幣價值畫廊」的一部分在博物館展出，旁邊還有茶葉、石頭、銀器、金器和貝殼。這台筆記型電腦曾經屬於國稅局刑事調查員 Chris Janczewski，他曾參與扳倒 Ilya Lichtenstein 和 Heather Morgan（又名 Razzlekhan）。

Lichtenstein and Morgan are Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde. In 2016, Lichtenstein hacked into the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stole almost 120,000 in Bitcoin. At the time it was worth around $70 million. Morgan had helped him launder it. When they were arrested in 2022, the value was more than $3 billion. It was the biggest financial seizure in DOJ history.

利希滕斯坦和摩根是比特幣的邦妮和克萊德。 2016 年，Lichtenstein 入侵了加密貨幣交易所 Bitfinex，竊取了近 12 萬枚比特幣。當時它的價值約為7000萬美元。摩根幫他洗了它。當他們於 2022 年被捕時，價值超過 30 億美元。這是司法部史上最大的一次財務扣押。

Janczewski’s laptop was instrumental in bringing down the pair. Proponents of cryptocurrency swear by its anonymity, but the Blockchain never forgets. A talented digital forensics expert can map wallets, connect them to people, and create a history of use and spending that proves criminal behavior. That’s exactly what Janczewski did.

Janczewski 的筆記型電腦在擊垮這對夫婦的過程中發揮了重要作用。加密貨幣的支持者宣誓其匿名性，但區塊鏈永遠不會忘記。才華橫溢的數位鑑識專家可以繪製錢包地圖，將其與人們聯繫起來，並創建證明犯罪行為的使用和支出歷史記錄。這正是 Janczewski 所做的。

When the case was strong enough, the Department of Justice raided Lichtenstein and Morgan’s NYC apartment and seized their digital assets. Janczewski used this laptop to root through their files where he discovered the keys to the stolen Bitcoins. For a brief period, the investigator’s laptop held the keys to a $3.6 billion fortune.

當案件足夠有力時，司法部突襲了利希滕斯坦和摩根在紐約的公寓並沒收了他們的數位資產。 Janczewski 使用這台筆記型電腦翻查了他們的文件，發現了被盜比特幣的密鑰。調查員的筆記型電腦曾經一度掌握著 36 億美元財富的鑰匙。

According to a blog about the laptop from National Numismatic Collection curator Ellen Feingold, the museum has long understood that cryptocurrency was important but has struggled with how to display it in a museum.

根據國家錢幣收藏館館長 Ellen Feingold 在有關筆記型電腦的部落格中表示，該博物館很早就認識到加密貨幣的重要性，但一直在努力解決如何在博物館中展示它的問題。

“We began collecting cryptocurrency ephemera in 2018, when a visitor to the museum, learning of our interest in the history of money, generously donated two physical bitcoins and a copy of the Bitcoin Magazine,” Feingold said in her blog.

Feingold 在她的部落格中表示：「我們從2018 年開始收集加密貨幣蜉蝣，當時一位博物館參觀者了解到我們對貨幣歷史的興趣，慷慨地捐贈了兩個實體比特幣和一本比特幣雜誌。 」

This is not the only piece of cryptocurrency ephemera the museum owns. “I collected a copy of Bitcoin magazine (a print magazine for a virtual currency), two ‘physical’ Bitcoins that had a hologram on the back containing private keys (ours had the holograms removed before donation), and two pieces of 3D-printed Bitcoin jewelry. Known as the ‘Bitcoin engagement ring, a silver ring with a small stylized ‘B, and the ‘Bitcoin bling, a gold necklace with an oversized ‘B, each contains a QR code that links to a digital wallet and shows how much money the owner has stored there,” Feingold said.

這並不是博物館擁有的唯一一件加密貨幣蜉蝣。 「我收集了一份比特幣雜誌（虛擬貨幣的印刷雜誌）、兩個背面有包含私鑰的全息圖的『實體』比特幣（我們的比特幣在捐贈前已將全息圖移除），以及兩塊3D 列印的比特幣。被稱為“比特幣訂婚戒指，帶有小風格化“B”的銀戒指，以及“比特幣珠寶，帶有超大“B”的金項鍊，每個戒指都包含一個二維碼，鏈接到數字錢包並顯示該錢包的金額。

For Feingold, the laptop helps capture the moment when illusions about the anonymity granted by cryptocurrency shattered. “The NNC’s latest acquisition, a seemingly mundane 2019 MacBook Pro, captures this shift in our knowledge and the real-world implications of Bitcoin’s traceability,” she said.

對 Feingold 來說，筆記型電腦有助於捕捉加密貨幣賦予匿名性的幻想破滅的那一刻。 「NNC 最新收購的一台看似普通的 2019 年 MacBook Pro，抓住了我們知識的轉變以及比特幣可追溯性對現實世界的影響，」她說。

The U.S. Department of Treasury had custody of the laptop before handing it over to the Smithsonian. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui took notice of the strange object and reached out to the museum to tell them how important it was.

美國財政部在將筆記型電腦移交給史密森學會之前保管了它。治安法官齊亞·法魯基注意到了這個奇怪的物體，並向博物館伸出援手，告訴他們它有多重要。

Lichtenstein and Morgan plead guilty to the theft. Lichtenstein was sentenced to five years in prison. Morgan got 18 months. Morgan, in addition to being a thief, was also the self-styled “Crocodile of Wall Street” who rapped under the name Razzlekahn. Netflix made a documentary about them.

利希滕斯坦和摩根承認竊盜罪。利希滕斯坦被判處五年徒刑。摩根被判18個月。摩根除了是一名小偷之外，還是一個自封為“華爾街鱷魚”的人，以拉茲勒卡恩（Razzlekahn）的名義進行說唱。 Netflix 製作了一部關於他們的紀錄片。

“While the public may be enthralled by these larger-than-life personalities, to me the real story is how their case helps reshape our understanding of cryptocurrency from an anonymous to a pseudo-anonymous form of exchange,” Feingold said in her blog. “Most people can still use cryptocurrency to make transactions without sharing the details with their families and banks, but criminals cannot rely on cryptocurrencies to hide their crimes and shield them from prosecution.”

Feingold 在她的部落格中表示：「雖然大眾可能會被這些傳奇人物所吸引，但對我來說，真正的故事是他們的案例如何幫助我們重塑對加密貨幣的理解，從匿名到偽匿名的交換形式。 “大多數人仍然可以使用加密貨幣進行交易，而無需與家人和銀行分享詳細信息，但犯罪分子不能依靠加密貨幣來隱藏他們的罪行並保護他們免受起訴。”