寒冷的2月早晨，科林·伯吉斯（Kolin Burges）在戈克斯山（Gox Tokyo）办公室外面抗议时，要求答案

十一年后，加密货币第一个重大金融丑闻的象征标志性标志正在恐吓上拍卖。城市的储备价为4.5 BTC。

One cold February morning in 2014, Kolin Burges stood outside Mt. Gox's Tokyo office, clutching a handwritten cardboard sign and demanding answers from the bitcoin exchange's CEO, Mark Karpeles, about his missing tokens.

2014年2月的一个寒冷的早晨，科林·伯吉（Kolin Burges）站在戈克斯山（Gox Tokyo）办公室外面，抓着手写的纸板标志，并要求比特币交易所的首席执行官马克·卡佩雷斯（Mark Karpeles）对他的失踪令牌进行答案。

Eleven years later, the iconic sign, emblematic of crypto's first major financial scandal, is being auctioned on Scare.City with a reserve price of 4.5 BTC (about $383,000). The sale starts later Friday and ends April 3.

十一年后，加密货币第一个重大金融丑闻的象征标志性标志正在恐吓上拍卖。销售从星期五晚些时候开始，于4月3日结束。

"At the time, it didn't even cross my mind it could become valuable," Burges said.

伯吉斯说：“当时，它甚至没有跨越我的脑海，它可能会变得有价值。”

"I thought maybe I'd write a book someday, but the sign itself never seemed important. It's remarkable how things have evolved."

“我想也许我有一天会写一本书，但是标志本身似乎从来都不重要。这是非常了不起的事情。”

Burges had flown from London to Tokyo after Mt. Gox, then the world's largest bitcoin exchange, mysteriously froze withdrawals.

当时是世界上最大的比特币交易所戈克斯山之后，伯吉斯从伦敦飞往东京，神秘地戒断了。

"I woke up one morning and knew I had to go to Tokyo," Burges recalled.

伯吉回忆说：“我有一天早上醒了，知道我必须去东京。”

"I didn't really have a detailed plan. I just knew I had to be there.

“我真的没有一个详细的计划。我只是知道我必须在那里。

"When the withdrawal didn't arrive, I started feeling this growing sense of dread. At first, I wasn't 100% sure, but as time went on, it became increasingly clear something was very wrong."

“当撤回没有到达时，我开始感到这种恐惧感。起初，我不确定，但是随着时间的流逝，越来越明显的事情变得非常错误。”

His impromptu protest quickly gained international media attention, even attracting the notice of mainstream financial press like the Wall Street Journal.

他的即兴抗议迅速引起了国际媒体的关注，甚至吸引了像《华尔街日报》一样的主流金融出版社的通知。

Burges recalled those initial days in Tokyo as dreamlike and almost otherworldly.

伯吉（Burges）回忆起东京的最初日子，就像梦幻一样，几乎超凡脱俗。

"The moment I confronted Karpeles was intense," he remembered. "I demanded answers, but he just brushed me off, blaming technical issues. It felt surreal, standing there in the snow, knowing something major was unfolding."

他记得：“我面对卡佩莱斯的那一刻很激烈。” “我要求答案，但他只是把我甩开了，指责技术问题。感觉超现实，站在雪地里，知道主要的事情正在发生。”

As Burges protested outside Mt. Gox's offices, the exchange's attempts to mitigate the public fallout became increasingly evident.

当Burges在Gox山的办公室外面抗议时，该交易所减轻公共影响的尝试变得越来越明显。

"Mt. Gox kept dangling hope, but everyone could see the situation spiraling out of control," Burges said. "They even invited us inside to protest privately. Anything to remove us from public view. It was ridiculous and desperate."

伯吉斯说：“戈克斯山一直在悬而未决，但每个人都可以看到这种情况失控了。” “他们甚至邀请我们在里面进行私人抗议。任何事情都可以从公众视野中消除我们。这是荒谬而绝望的。”

Burges recalls how over drinks, someone from Mt. Gox, whom he declined to name, privately pressured him to cut it out.

伯吉回忆起他拒绝命名的戈克斯山的某人过度的饮料，私下向他施加压力。

"At one point, Mt. Gox representatives met me secretly, warning that continued protests would cause the exchange to collapse and everyone would lose their bitcoins," he said. "That conversation made it clear they knew more than they admitted, and the situation was far worse than publicly acknowledged."

他说：“有一次，戈克斯山的代表秘密地见了我，警告说，持续的抗议活动将导致交换崩溃，每个人都会失去他们的比特币。” “这次谈话清楚地表明，他们知道的比他们所承认的要多，而且情况远比公开承认的要差。”

Then, Burges recollects, one representative tried paying for their drinks with a Mt. Gox credit card — and it was declined.

然后，伯吉（Burges）回忆起，一位代表试图用山顶信用卡（Mt. Gox）信用卡为自己的饮料付款，并被拒绝。

"It was an ominous sign their banking relationships were unraveling," Burges said.

伯格斯说：“这是他们的银行关系正在揭露的不祥迹象。”

Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy in February 2014, days after Burges started his protest.

伯吉斯开始抗议活动的几天后，Gox山于2014年2月申请破产。

Seven years later, Karpeles was found innocent of embezzlement in a Tokyo court, while receiving a suspended sentence for manipulating data.

七年后，卡佩莱斯在东京法院被发现无辜，同时因操纵数据而被缓刑。

Last September, Karpeles set up a new crypto exchange, EllipX. He also established a crypto ratings company called Ungox in 2022.

去年9月，Karpeles建立了新的加密交易所Ellipx。他还在2022年成立了一家名为ungox的加密评分公司。

In an interview with CoinDesk on the sidelines of Korea Blockchain Week in August 2024, Karples said that if he had modern blockchain analytical tools in 2014, and third-party custodians, Mt. Gox "wouldn't have happened."

在2024年8月在韩国区块链周的旁观中接受Coindesk的采访时，Karples说，如果他在2014年拥有现代的区块链分析工具，而第三方保管人则是Gox山山“就不会发生”。