比特币是一项技术，而不是宇宙的力量

新的比特币被带入比特币的世界，该镜头掩盖并扭曲了比特币的现实作为一种技术

The author of the original post, which appeared on Bitcoin Magazine, argues that New Bitcoiners are being brought into the world of Bitcoin through a lens that obscures and distorts the realities of Bitcoin as a technology and what that entails, and tries to pack it into the box of “digital gold.”

发表在比特币杂志上的原始帖子的作者认为，新的比特币通过镜头将新的比特币被带入比特币的世界中，该镜头掩盖了比特币作为一种技术，并试图将其包装到“数字黄金”盒中。

This is a disastrous way for people to conceptualize Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a decentralized computer network. The conditions of a network are not a static thing. Environments change, network loads change, behavior of network users change. All of these things can have impacts on the viability and functioning of the network itself.

这是人们概念化比特币的灾难性方式。比特币是一个分散的计算机网络。网络的条件不是静态的。环境变化，网络负载变化，网络用户的行为变化。所有这些事情都可能影响网络本身的可行性和功能。

Gold doesn’t need patches for vulnerabilities. Gold doesn’t have to overhaul major subsystems because a change in user behavior overloaded them to the point of not functioning correctly or efficiently. Gold doesn’t need to worry about Denial of Service attack vectors that could disrupt, or worst case bring down, the entire “gold network.”

黄金不需要漏洞的补丁。黄金不必大修主要子系统，因为用户行为的变化使它们超载到无法正常或有效运行。黄金不必担心拒绝服务攻击向量会破坏或最坏的情况，即整个“黄金网络”。

Bitcoin does. Bitcoin is not “digital gold,” it is a decentralized network made of software individuals actually have to run and maintain. The Bitcoin goldbugs have completely lost connection with this reality, at least when it comes to rationally assessing risks to Bitcoin, or ways it genuinely could fail or be co-opted.

比特币会。比特币不是“数字黄金”，它是由软件个人实际运行和维护的分散网络。比特币金肉与这一现实完全失去了联系，至少在理性地评估比特币的风险时，或者它真正可以失败或选择。

Bitcoin is going to have problems it needs to solve, at a fundamental technical level. It already does, and it will have more. This is how technology works, it is an inherent part of it. Bitcoin’s value stems from its use as a censorship resistant network, a freedom money no one can stop you from using. That is its core valuable characteristic.

比特币将在基本技术层面上遇到需要解决的问题。它已经做到了，它将有更多。这就是技术的工作原理，它是IT的固有部分。比特币的价值源于其用作抵抗审查的网络，没有人可以阻止您使用的自由资金。这是其核心有价值的特征。

That characteristic hinges entirely on its decentralized nature.

该特征完全取决于其分散的性质。

If people do not work to defend that decentralized nature, to interact with Bitcoin in a decentralized fashion, to improve and fix it as needed to counteract limitations or pressures encouraging centralization, then it will not remain decentralized.

如果人们不努力捍卫这种分散的性质，以分散的方式与比特币进行互动，以根据需要改进和修复它以抵消限制或鼓励集中化的压力，那么它将不会保持分散。

We are going to very soon regret the consequences of focusing so much outreach the last few cycles purely on spreading this “digital gold” narrative. This entire generation of Bitcoiners does not fundamentally understand that decentralization isn’t a static unchanging characteristic set in stone forever.

我们很快将对将最后几个周期纯粹放在传播这种“数字黄金”叙述上的最后几个周期中的后果后悔。这一代比特币的人从根本上了解到，权力下放不是永远存在的静态不变特征。

It needs to be maintained.

它需要维护。