比特币大谜团：谁是中本聪？

彼得·托德站在捷克某处一座破旧工业建筑的楼上，低声窃笑。

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旧工业建筑的楼上，低声笑了起来。他刚刚在镜头前被指控为比特币创造者中本聪，15 年来，他的身份一直是一个紧迫的问题。

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 的新纪录片《金钱电力：比特币之谜》的最后一幕中，纪录片导演卡伦·霍巴克 (Cullen Hoback) 向托德提出了他就是中本聪的理论。在之前的作品中，霍巴克揭露了 QAnon 背后的人物。在这里，他试图用比特币重复这个伎俩。

“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.”

“我承认，你很有创意——你想出了一些疯狂的理论，”托德告诉霍巴克，然后拒绝了这个想法，称其“荒谬”。 “我警告你，当你把这个放入纪录片中时，这会非常有趣。”

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.”

在缺乏无可争议的证据的情况下，这部电影并没有声称最终揭露了比特币创造者的真面目。 “郑重声明，我不是中本聪，”托德在一封电子邮件中说道。 “这是一个无用的问题，因为中本聪只会否认这一点。”

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

比特币连线指南寻找比特币创造者：每个人都是中本聪，但没有人是中本聪

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.

多年来，对比特币创造者的追捕已经产生了众多中本聪，其中包括有史以来第一笔比特币交易的接收者哈尔·芬尼 (Hal Finney)； Adam Back，比特币白皮书中引用的先驱技术的设计者；密码学家 Nick Szabo 等等。手指指向某些人；其他人自己选举。尽管中本聪有很多面孔，但没有一个人围绕中本聪形成共识。

“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.”

“人们基本上怀疑每个人都是中本聪，”托德在纪录片的早期指出。 “这类东西的问题在于人们玩这些疯狂的游戏。”

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.

《连线》在寻找中本聪的历史上占有一席之地。 2015 年 12 月的同一天，《连线》和《Gizmodo》分别提名澳大利亚计算机科学家克雷格·怀特 (Craig Wright) 为潜在的中本聪。最初的故事基于大量泄露的文件，提出赖特“要么发明了比特币，要么是一个出色的骗子，他非常想让我们相信他发明了比特币。”几天后，《连线》杂志发表了第二篇报道，指出支持后一种解释的证据存在差异。

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，英国高等法院的一名法官断然裁定赖特不是中本聪，结束了由一群加密货币公司提起的诉讼，以防止澳大利亚人提出滋扰的法律索赔。

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.

在我报道赖特审判的两个月里，我的收件箱中也出现了多个中本聪。 “世界还没有准备好了解中本聪，除非满足某些条件，否则他们永远不会这样做，”其中一位在一条乱码信息中写道。

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，我什至在法庭外的等候区见到了一位未来的中本聪。这名自称中本聪的男子坐在公众旁听席上听取结案陈词。没过多久，他就睡着了，下巴抵在胸口。另一位旁观者称他为“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.

许多比特币爱好者欢迎这种奇怪的加密版本的“我是斯巴达克斯”，他们更希望比特币创造者的身份永远是一个谜。他们说，比特币没有受到创始人的专横影响，而是在一个未受破坏的无政府状态体系下发展起来的，在这个体系中，没有人的意见比其他人的意见更有价值。每个人都是中本聪，但没有人是中本聪。