谁创建了比特币？

16多年前，在2008年万圣节那天，一个名叫Nakamoto的实体寄出了白皮书

Benajmin Wallace’s “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto” is a 342-page investigation into the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious entity who created Bitcoin. First announced in October 2008 via email to a cypherpunk listserv, Bitcoin quickly spawned a global cultural movement and a multi-trillion dollar industry.

Benajmin Wallace的“神秘的Nakamoto先生”是一项为期342页的调查，对创建比特币的神秘实体Satoshi Nakamoto的身份进行了342页的调查。比特币于2008年10月首次通过电子邮件宣布，通过电子邮件到Cypherpunk Listserv，迅速产生了全球文化运动和数万亿美元的行业。

Back in 2011, when Wallace wrote a piece on the phenomenon for WIRED, it seemed like everyone was searching for Nakamoto, but no one could figure it out. Now, more than 10 years later, the author of “The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine” (2009) is still juggling that question.

早在2011年，华莱士（Wallace）就有线现象写了一篇文章，似乎每个人都在寻找中村，但没人能弄清楚。现在，十多年后，“亿万富翁的醋：世界上最昂贵的葡萄酒的奥秘”（2009年）仍在嘲笑这个问题。

After receiving persistent emails from an ex-Tesla employee who was absolutely convinced that Elon Musk was Nakamoto, Wallace decided to take another look at the enigma, which he previously covered in 2011 for WIRED. Keeping clear of that particular theory, which he says is “not a view I share,” Wallace lays out his own findings in “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto,” set for release on March 18 by Simon & Schuster.

在收到前泰斯拉雇员的持续电子邮件后，他绝对坚信埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）是中村（Nakamoto）之后，华莱士（Wallace）决定再看一次谜，他此前在2011年介绍了该谜团。避开了特定的理论，他说这是“我分享的观点”，华莱士在3月18日由Simon＆Schuster于3月18日发布的“ Nakamoto先生”中提出了自己的发现。

The conclusion? Well, by the end of it, Wallace is forced to admit that he failed to solve the Nakamoto riddle once again. But his obsession yielded a thoughtful survey of Bitcoin’s history with a special emphasis on the cypherpunks whose ideas contributed to the cryptocurrency’s birth. “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto” is a perfect work for crypto veterans and beginners alike who are curious to know more about Bitcoin’s origins; in that respect, it’s comparable to Laura Shin’s “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (2022), which focuses on Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum’s early days.

结论？好吧，到最后，华莱士被迫承认他未能再次解决Nakamoto Riddle。但是他的痴迷对比特币的历史进行了深思熟虑的调查，特别强调了cypherpunk的想法有助于加密货币的出生。对于加密退伍军人和初学者来说，“神秘的纳卡摩先生”是一项完美的作品，他们很好奇地了解比特币的起源。在这方面，它可以与劳拉·辛（Laura Shin）的“加密主义者：理想主义，贪婪，谎言”和第一个大加密货币狂热的制作相媲美”（2022年），它重点介绍了维塔利克·布特林（Vitalik Buterin）和以太坊的早期。

The DEVOLUTION OF A MYSTERY

神秘的权力下放

At the beginning of the book, we learn that the fibonnacci sequence, magic squares, and "exceedingly boring" meetings with venture capitalists will play a role in the tale to come. We're also told that Nakamoto's identity is one of the great secrets of the 21st century.

在本书的开头，我们了解到，斐波那纳克的序列，魔术广场和与风险投资家的“极其无聊”的会议将在未来的故事中发挥作用。我们还被告知，中村的身份是21世纪的伟大秘密之一。

As Wallace points out, everyone is interested in putting a face on Bitcoin's inventor now that Wall Street and the White House are beginning to fully embrace the crypto sector. There is perhaps a feeling that we need to make the digital asset a little cleaner and safer to integrate into the global financial system.

正如华莱士指出的那样，现在华尔街和白宫开始完全拥抱加密货币领域，每个人都有兴趣在比特币的发明家身上贴上一张脸。也许有一种感觉，我们需要使数字资产更加清洁，更安全，以集成到全球金融体系中。

Nakamoto's identity is crucial because its discovery would impact the way people see Bitcoin. Crypto folks prefer to think of Satoshi as a kind of promethean figure that unleashed Bitcoin as a gift to mankind before disappearing for the greater good. But what if Nakamoto was an outright criminal like former cartel boss Paul Le Roux who simply cannot access his private keys because he's behind bars? Would BlackRock and Fidelity still race to recommend exposure to the cryptocurrency to their clients?

Nakamoto的身份至关重要，因为它的发现会影响人们看到比特币的方式。加密货币人士更喜欢将萨托岛视为一种普罗米修斯人的形象，在为更大的利益而消失之前，将比特币作为送给人类的礼物。但是，如果纳卡本（Nakamoto）是一个像前卡特尔（Cartel）老板保罗·勒·鲁克斯（Paul Le Roux）这样的直接罪犯，因为他在狱中而无法访问他的私钥，该怎么办？贝莱德（BlackRock）和忠实（Fidelity）是否仍会竞争向客户推荐对加密货币的接触？

Finally, we're told that the tale unfolded over the course of a year and a half and begins in the autumn of 2021, when, after an "unusually hot summer," a friend of the author's suggested that maybe he shouldn't try to solve the mystery of Nakamoto's identity.

最后，我们被告知，这个故事在一年半的时间内展开了，始于2021年秋天，当时，在“异常炎热的夏天”之后，作者的一个朋友建议也许他不应该试图解决中玛托的身份的奥秘。

"What could we possibly learn from Nakomoto’s biography?" Wallace muses at some point, after a friend of his suggests the story would be better without an answer. "That he was a random professor who’d had a lucky brainstorm? No, what was most interesting about Nakamoto was his absence. He was defined by what we didn't know about him."

“我们可以从纳科莫托的传记中学到什么？”华莱士在某个时候沉思着，在他的一个朋友暗示没有答案的情况下，这个故事会更好。 “他是一位随机的教授，他有一个幸运的头脑风暴？不，纳卡本最有趣的是他的缺席。他的定义是由我们对他不了解的。”