我们是比特币

昨晚，我非常高兴与杰夫·布斯（Jeff Booth）进行了深入交谈，我经常将他称为比特币的埃克哈特·托尔（Eckhart Tolle）。

Last night, I had the distinct pleasure of having an in-depth conversation with Jeff Booth, who I often refer to as the Eckhart Tolle of Bitcoin.

昨晚，我非常高兴与杰夫·布斯（Jeff Booth）进行了深入交谈，我经常将他称为比特币的埃克哈特·托尔（Eckhart Tolle）。

Booth, soft-spoken yet direct, harped on one point in particular in the conversation that, while at first I didn’t grasp, ended up resonating deeply with me.

布斯说话温和而直接，在谈话中特别强调了一个观点，虽然一开始我没有理解，但最终引起了我深深的共鸣。

He said multiple times “We are Bitcoin” in efforts to drive home the point that Bitcoin will continue to work if we continue to make it work.

他多次表示“我们就是比特币”，试图让大家明白，如果我们继续让它发挥作用，比特币将继续发挥作用。

At first this statement seemed antithetical to Bitcoin. Technically, of course, we’re not Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that allows people to transfer value securely and permissionlessly. Also, Bitcoin was designed in a way that actually requires less human involvement than the traditional monetary and financial systems, as its inflation rate can’t be altered by humans and there are no middle people involved in Bitcoin transactions.

起初，这种说法似乎与比特币相反。当然，从技术上讲，我们不是比特币。比特币是一种开源协议，允许人们安全且无需许可地转移价值。此外，比特币的设计方式实际上比传统的货币和金融系统需要更少的人类参与，因为它的通货膨胀率无法由人类改变，并且没有中间人参与比特币交易。

Yet we are Bitcoin, just as Booth said.

但正如布斯所说，我们是比特币。

We are the ones that have to spin up nodes to keep the network decentralized.

我们必须启动节点以保持网络去中心化。

We are the ones that plug in the miners to help power and secure the network.

我们是为矿工提供电力和保护网络的人。

And we are the ones who educate others about Bitcoin as well as defend it in the social arena.

我们是向他人传授比特币知识并在社交舞台上捍卫比特币的人。

We’re human nodes in the network, doing our part to technically keep Bitcoin running and propagating information about Bitcoin to the world.

我们是网络中的人类节点，尽自己的一份力量在技术上保持比特币的运行并向世界传播有关比特币的信息。

Without our taking responsibility as human nodes, Bitcoin becomes less decentralized, less secure and less understood.

如果我们不承担作为人类节点的责任，比特币就会变得不那么去中心化、不那么安全、更不被理解。

So, if you’re reading this, know that you are Bitcoin, a component of the most incredible system for human freedom and prosperity ever created, and both savor that and act accordingly.

因此，如果您正在阅读本文，请知道您就是比特币，它是有史以来为人类自由和繁荣创造的最令人难以置信的系统的组成部分，并且双方都可以享受它并采取相应的行动。