《法律的重锤重重敲下：自以为凌驾于法律之上的加密货币‘兄弟’将面临正义”

当正义最终对那些藐视法律的“加密货币兄弟”进行制裁时，现实却遭到了猛烈的打击。三箭资本联合创始人凯尔·戴维斯（Kyle Davies）曾经是不可触碰的，现在却面临着密切关注。 2022 年中期的破产暴露了他们鲁莽行为的真正代价，给投资者留下了一系列损失。法律已经说了话，曾经所向无敌的人现在似乎正面临着他们误导的后果。

I don’t like saying ‘I told you so,’ but I can’t help but notice all the ‘crypto bros’ who thought themselves above the law are slowly but surely being shown the error of their ways.

我不喜欢说“我告诉过你了”，但我不禁注意到所有自认为凌驾于法律之上的“加密货币兄弟”正在慢慢但肯定地被证明他们的做法是错误的。

I caught some of the interview that Three Arrows Capital (3AC) co-founder Kyle Davies gave to journalist Laura Shin last week. Davies has some nerve giving long-form, on-camera interviews, considering that 3AC’s mid-2022 bankruptcy led to billions of dollars in losses for both institutional and retail investors.

我看到了三箭资本 (3AC) 联合创始人凯尔·戴维斯 (Kyle Davies) 上周对记者劳拉·辛 (Laura Shin) 的一些采访。考虑到 3AC 在 2022 年中期破产给机构投资者和散户投资者带来了数十亿美元的损失，戴维斯有勇气接受长篇镜头采访。

But despite a well-documented history of self-interested dealing by Davies and his 3AC partner Su Zhu, Davies expressed zero remorse for his actions. In fact, he showed something resembling pride in acknowledging his lack of cooperation with the authorities looking into 3AC’s demise.

尽管戴维斯和他的 3AC 合伙人苏朱有充分记录的自利交易历史，但戴维斯对自己的行为表示零悔意。事实上，他在承认自己没有配合当局调查 3AC 的灭亡时，表现出了某种类似自豪的情绪。

Following the interview, Davies suggested that he and Su “devoutly believed in up only forever. Still do.” Davies implied that companies that trusted their money to 3AC’s leadership had only themselves to blame, having chosen to “gamble their own low-risk client’s funds on a high-risk thesis.”

采访结束后，戴维斯表示，他和苏“虔诚地相信永远”。还是这样。”戴维斯暗示，那些将资金托付给 3AC 领导层的公司只能怪自己，因为他们选择“把自己的低风险客户的资金押在高风险的论文上”。

Let’s be clear: believing in ‘up only forever’ isn’t high-risk, it’s insanity. And yet, Davies and Su have gone on to launch new ill-fated ‘crypto’ projects, seemingly convinced that they can just go on stealing forever without consequences (or in Su’s case, a brief stay in a Singapore prison cell for trying to skip town before investigators were done probing 3AC’s collapse).

让我们明确一点：相信“永远向上”并不是高风险，而是疯狂。然而，戴维斯和苏继续启动了新的命运多舛的“加密货币”项目，似乎相信他们可以永远继续偷窃而不会产生任何后果（或者在苏的例子中，因为试图跳过而在新加坡监狱牢房里短暂停留）在调查人员完成对 3AC 倒闭事件的调查之前，曾在该镇进行过调查）。

Listening to Davies justify all his crimes while wearing a smug, self-satisfied grin, all I could think of was that psycho-Goofy meme “I’ll f*ckin’ do it again.” That might as well be the motto of the broader ‘crypto’ sector. Or at least it was, until legal authorities around the globe finally realized that they already had laws on their books to take action against old-fashioned criminals using high-tech tools to rob people blind.

听着戴维斯一边自鸣得意、自鸣得意地笑着为他所有的罪行辩护，我所能想到的就是那句心理高飞模因“我他妈的会再做一次。”这也可能是更广泛的“加密”行业的座右铭。或者至少是这样，直到全球各地的法律当局最终意识到他们已经制定了法律，对使用高科技工具进行盲目抢劫的老式犯罪分子采取行动。

The ever-expanding criminal lineup

不断扩大的犯罪阵容

Former FTX blunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) will be sentenced later this week for the crimes that led to FTX’s demise. Like Davies, SBF has shown little remorse for his actions, despite a flood of victim impact statements detailing the very real harm inflicted by his belief that he was above the law. SBF could be looking at decades behind bars, a scenario that still might fail to satisfy the masses baying for his blood.

前 FTX 犯人 Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) 将于本周晚些时候因导致 FTX 灭亡的罪行而被判刑。和戴维斯一样，SBF 并没有对自己的行为表现出任何悔意，尽管大量受害者影响声明详细说明了他认为自己凌驾于法律之上所造成的真正伤害。 SBF 可能会面临数十年的牢狱之灾，这种情况可能仍然无法满足要求他献血的群众。

Next month, a similar day of reckoning awaits Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of the Binance exchange. CZ thought ‘crypto’ was so unique and special that he could ignore any and all rules that interfered with his profits. That history will boomerang back on him big time when the judge announces how long CZ will have to spend in a U.S. prison cell.

下个月，币安交易所创始人赵长鹏（CZ）也将迎来类似的清算日。 CZ 认为“加密货币”是如此独特和特殊，以至于他可以忽略任何干扰他利润的规则。当法官宣布 CZ 将在美国监狱牢房中度过多长时间时，这段历史将在他身上重演。

Further down this road, Alex Mashinsky, former head of the Celsius Ponzi scheme, will face his own legal reckoning. Ditto for Richard Heart, whose performative luxury shopping sprees helped him fleece countless Hex ‘investors.’

沿着这条路走下去，摄氏庞氏骗局前负责人亚历克斯·马辛斯基（Alex Mashinsky）将面临自己的法律清算。理查德·哈特 (Richard Heart) 也是如此，他的奢华购物狂潮帮助他骗取了无数 Hex“投资者”。

Davies, SBF, Mashinsky, Heart, Digital Currency Group’s Barry Silbert and countless others are all charter members of crypto’s ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’ ethos. It’s like some malignantly narcissistic superpower (more The Boys than The Avengers).

Davies、SBF、Mashinsky、Heart、数字货币集团的 Barry Silbert 以及无数其他人都是加密货币“我没有做错任何事”精神的创始成员。这就像某种恶性自恋的超级大国（更像是男孩们而不是复仇者联盟）。

Then there’s all the crypto casinos posing as exchanges (Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Kraken,), hawking lottery tickets to the masses who’ve somehow been led to believe that token values travel in an ‘up only forever’ trajectory. These casinos rely on a steady stream of purpose-free shitcoins, new versions of which—thanks to Solana—are being created every minute. Incredibly, there are those who believe 2017’s initial coin offering (ICO) debacle deserved an encore.

然后还有所有冒充交易所的加密货币赌场（Coinbase（纳斯达克股票代码：COIN）、Kraken），向大众兜售彩票，这些大众不知何故被引导相信代币价值沿着“永远上涨”的轨迹传播。这些赌场依赖于源源不断的无目的垃圾币，感谢 Solana，每分钟都在创建新版本的垃圾币。令人难以置信的是，有些人认为 2017 年首次代币发行 (ICO) 的惨败值得重演。

Lurking behind all of this is Tether, without which the entire ‘crypto’ ecosystem would be exposed as a Potemkin village of wash trades and wafer-thin liquidity. Regardless of whether USDT is fully backed by real-world assets, Tether’s bigger challenge is shedding its well-earned reputation as the common coin of money launderers, drug traffickers, pig-butchering scammers and, yes, Islamic terrorists.

潜伏在这一切背后的是 Tether，如果没有它，整个“加密货币”生态系统将暴露为清洗交易和流动性微薄的波将金村。无论 USDT 是否完全得到现实世界资产的支持，Tether 面临的更大挑战是摆脱其作为洗钱者、毒贩、屠宰生猪诈骗者以及伊斯兰恐怖分子的常见货币的名声。

And last week brought word that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was investigating the Ethereum Foundation, reportedly due to the SEC’s belief that ETH is an unregistered security. A centralized authority issuing a token (mostly to themselves) whose value is projected to rise based on that same authority’s efforts, and now rewards a small core of ETH whales (also mostly themselves) for validating network transactions? You mean that unregistered security? Huh…

上周有消息称，美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 正在调查以太坊基金会，据报道，这是因为 SEC 认为 ETH 是一种未注册的证券。一个中心化机构发行一种代币（主要是给他们自己），其价值预计会根据同一机构的努力而上升，现在奖励一小部分 ETH 鲸鱼核心（也主要是他们自己）来验证网络交易？您是指未注册的证券吗？呃……

Flawed tech leads to flawed goals

有缺陷的技术导致有缺陷的目标

The ICO encore is proof of the dearth of development that the overall blockchain sector has demonstrated over the past decade. With their technology unable to scale, these stunted blockchain backers are left recycling the same old scams. It’s perhaps even more outrageous that people continue to fall for these warmed-over grifts, but P.T. Barnum may have underestimated the size of the problem.

ICO encore 证明了整个区块链行业在过去十年中缺乏发展。由于他们的技术无法扩展，这些发育不良的区块链支持者只能回收同样的旧骗局。更令人愤慨的是，人们继续上当受骗，但 P.T.巴纳姆可能低估了问题的严重性。

All that said, I take solace in the old adage that the wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine. Crypto bros may be forever trapped in a state of arrested adolescence, but it’s encouraging to see some of these overgrown adolescents being actually arrested and threatened with more than losing access to their PlayStations for a week.

综上所述，我对一句古老的格言感到安慰：正义之轮转动缓慢，但磨得很细。加密货币兄弟可能永远陷入青春期被捕的状态，但令人鼓舞的是，看到其中一些长大的青少年实际上被捕并受到威胁，不仅仅是一周内无法使用 PlayStation。

I take even greater solace in the ethical way the BSV Blockchain has operated since its launch as the original Bitcoin in 2009. The Bitcoin white paper was never the declaration of war on traditional finance that so many anarchists tried to portray it as, and BSV sees no inherent contradiction between its revolutionary technology and existing financial/legal guardrails.

我对 BSV 区块链自 2009 年作为原始比特币推出以来的道德运作方式感到更加安慰。比特币白皮书从来都不是像许多无政府主义者试图描绘的那样向传统金融宣战，BSV 认为其革命性技术与现有的金融/法律护栏之间不存在内在矛盾。

For instance, BSV believes that victims of crime shouldn’t be forced to accept their losses
because of some quasi-religious adherence to the mantra of ‘not your keys, not your coins.’ The concept of justice should not take a back seat because some self-anointed high priests of tech don’t think you’re smart enough to join their club.

例如，BSV 认为，犯罪受害者不应该因为某种准宗教信仰“不是你的钥匙，不是你的硬币”而被迫接受自己的损失。正义的概念不应该退居二线，因为一些自封的科技大祭司认​​为你不够聪明，无法加入他们的俱乐部。

BSV’s possibilities continue to expand with the long-awaited launch of the Teranode scaling solution. Teranode will allow the BSV Blockchain to vastly exceed the transaction-per-second limits of Visa and Mastercard, while doing so at a fraction of the costs of these ‘mature’ networks.

随着期待已久的 Teranode 扩展解决方案的推出，BSV 的可能性继续扩大。 Teranode 将允许 BSV 区块链大大超过 Visa 和 Mastercard 的每秒交易限制，而成本只是这些“成熟”网络的一小部分。

Teranode’s overlay services will add even greater functionality to network nodes, while ensuring faster, more efficient transaction processing. Combined with BSV’s unparalleled, immutable data storage capacity, enterprises and governments continue to discover real-world, big-data solutions unavailable on any other chain.  

Teranode 的覆盖服务将为网络节点添加更强大的功能，同时确保更快、更高效的事务处理。结合 BSV 无与伦比的、不可变的数据存储能力，企业和政府不断发现任何其他链上无法提供的现实世界的大数据解决方案。

I’m in no way surprised that BSV is still regularly attacked by its rivals. BSV embarrasses the developers behind the other networks, who refuse to accept the fact that enterprise blockchain technology is capable of so much more than recreating feudalism with (naturally) themselves as the lords.

对于 BSV 仍然经常受到竞争对手的攻击，我一点也不感到惊讶。 BSV 让其他网络背后的开发者感到尴尬，他们拒绝接受这样一个事实：企业区块链技术的能力不仅仅是重建封建制度（自然地）让他们自己成为领主。

BSV’s commitment to honoring the unilateral contract laid down by Satoshi Nakamoto will further set BSV apart from the pretender chains that offer the world little beyond false promises of instant wealth. I’ve only ever been in this space for the technology. With the criminals being pushed back into the shadows, maybe the world will finally be able to see the wealth of benefits this technology has to offer.

BSV 承诺遵守中本聪制定的单边合同，这将进一步使 BSV 与那些冒充区块链的公司区分开来，这些冒充区块链除了向世界提供即时财富的虚假承诺之外，几乎没有什么用处。我进入这个领域只是为了技术。随着犯罪分子被推回幕后，也许世界最终将能够看到这项技术所带来的巨大好处。

After so many years of anarchy ruling the digital asset space, I’m encouraged by the restoration of sanity and the reassertion of the rule of law. BSV’s longstanding adherence to the rules will hold it in good stead when the authorities finish dealing with the unrepentant criminals still clinging to their anarchic fantasies. Goodbye and good riddance.

在数字资产领域经历了多年的无政府状态之后，我对理智的恢复和法治的重申感到鼓舞。当当局处理完那些仍坚持无政府主义幻想的顽固不化的罪犯时，BSV 长期以来对规则的遵守将使其保持良好的地位。再见，祝你摆脱困境。

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