MacBook 打败了比特币的邦妮和克莱德

史密森尼博物馆的国家钱币收藏是一份货币目录。里面藏有金条、600,000 张南方邦联纸币和 14 世纪的金币。现在，它还存放着一台 MacBook，其中曾经藏有价值 36 亿美元的被盗比特币的钥匙。

The National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Museum is a catalog of money. It houses gold bars, 600,000 Confederate banknotes, and gold coins from the 14th century. Now it also houses a MacBook, one that once contained the keys to $3.6 billion in stolen Bitcoin.

史密森尼博物馆的国家钱币收藏是一份货币目录。里面藏有金条、600,000 张南方邦联纸币和 14 世纪的金币。现在，它还存放着一台 MacBook，其中曾经藏有价值 36 亿美元的被盗比特币的钥匙。

Soon, the laptop will be on display at the museum as part of its “The Value of Money Gallery” where it will sit next to tea, stones, silver, gold, and seashells. The laptop once belonged to Chris Janczewski, an IRS Criminal Investigator who was involved in bringing down Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan [aka Razzlekhan].

很快，这款笔记本电脑将作为“货币价值画廊”的一部分在博物馆展出，旁边还有茶叶、石头、银器、金器和贝壳。这台笔记本电脑曾经属于国税局刑事调查员 Chris Janczewski，他曾参与扳倒 Ilya Lichtenstein 和 Heather Morgan（又名 Razzlekhan）。

Lichtenstein and Morgan are Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde. In 2016, Lichtenstein hacked into the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stole almost 120,000 in Bitcoin. At the time it was worth around $70 million. Morgan had helped him launder it. When they were arrested in 2022, the value was more than $3 billion. It was the biggest financial seizure in DOJ history.

利希滕斯坦和摩根是比特币的邦妮和克莱德。 2016 年，Lichtenstein 入侵了加密货币交易所 Bitfinex，窃取了近 12 万枚比特币。当时它的价值约为7000万美元。摩根帮他洗了它。当他们于 2022 年被捕时，其价值超过 30 亿美元。这是司法部历史上最大的一次财务扣押。

Janczewski’s laptop was instrumental in bringing down the pair. Proponents of cryptocurrency swear by its anonymity, but the Blockchain never forgets. A talented digital forensics expert can map wallets, connect them to people, and create a history of use and spending that proves criminal behavior. That’s exactly what Janczewski did.

Janczewski 的笔记本电脑在击垮这对夫妇的过程中发挥了重要作用。加密货币的支持者宣誓其匿名性，但区块链永远不会忘记。才华横溢的数字取证专家可以绘制钱包地图，将其与人们联系起来，并创建证明犯罪行为的使用和支出历史记录。这正是 Janczewski 所做的。

When the case was strong enough, the Department of Justice raided Lichtenstein and Morgan’s NYC apartment and seized their digital assets. Janczewski used this laptop to root through their files where he discovered the keys to the stolen Bitcoins. For a brief period, the investigator’s laptop held the keys to a $3.6 billion fortune.

当案件足够有力时，司法部突袭了利希滕斯坦和摩根在纽约的公寓并没收了他们的数字资产。 Janczewski 使用这台笔记本电脑翻查了他们的文件，发现了被盗比特币的密钥。调查员的笔记本电脑曾一度掌握着 36 亿美元财富的钥匙。

According to a blog about the laptop from National Numismatic Collection curator Ellen Feingold, the museum has long understood that cryptocurrency was important but has struggled with how to display it in a museum.

根据国家钱币收藏馆馆长 Ellen Feingold 在有关笔记本电脑的博客中表示，该博物馆很早就认识到加密货币的重要性，但一直在努力解决如何在博物馆中展示它的问题。

“We began collecting cryptocurrency ephemera in 2018, when a visitor to the museum, learning of our interest in the history of money, generously donated two physical bitcoins and a copy of the Bitcoin Magazine,” Feingold said in her blog.

Feingold 在她的博客中表示：“我们从 2018 年开始收集加密货币蜉蝣，当时一位博物馆参观者了解到我们对货币历史的兴趣，慷慨地捐赠了两个实物比特币和一本比特币杂志。”

This is not the only piece of cryptocurrency ephemera the museum owns. “I collected a copy of Bitcoin magazine (a print magazine for a virtual currency), two ‘physical’ Bitcoins that had a hologram on the back containing private keys (ours had the holograms removed before donation), and two pieces of 3D-printed Bitcoin jewelry. Known as the ‘Bitcoin engagement ring, a silver ring with a small stylized ‘B, and the ‘Bitcoin bling, a gold necklace with an oversized ‘B, each contains a QR code that links to a digital wallet and shows how much money the owner has stored there,” Feingold said.

这并不是博物馆拥有的唯一一件加密货币蜉蝣。 “我收集了一份比特币杂志（虚拟货币的印刷杂志）、两个背面有包含私钥的全息图的‘实体’比特币（我们的比特币在捐赠前已将全息图移除），以及两块 3D 打印的比特币。比特币珠宝。被称为“比特币订婚戒指，带有小风格化“B”的银戒指，以及“比特币珠宝，带有超大“B”的金项链，每枚都包含一个二维码，链接到数字钱包并显示该钱包的金额。主人已经存放在那里，”法因戈尔德说。

For Feingold, the laptop helps capture the moment when illusions about the anonymity granted by cryptocurrency shattered. “The NNC’s latest acquisition, a seemingly mundane 2019 MacBook Pro, captures this shift in our knowledge and the real-world implications of Bitcoin’s traceability,” she said.

对于 Feingold 来说，笔记本电脑有助于捕捉加密货币赋予匿名性的幻想破灭的那一刻。 “NNC 最新收购的一台看似普通的 2019 款 MacBook Pro，抓住了我们知识的转变以及比特币可追溯性对现实世界的影响，”她说。

The U.S. Department of Treasury had custody of the laptop before handing it over to the Smithsonian. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui took notice of the strange object and reached out to the museum to tell them how important it was.

美国财政部在将笔记本电脑移交给史密森学会之前保管了它。治安法官齐亚·法鲁基注意到了这个奇怪的物体，并向博物馆伸出援手，告诉他们它有多么重要。

Lichtenstein and Morgan plead guilty to the theft. Lichtenstein was sentenced to five years in prison. Morgan got 18 months. Morgan, in addition to being a thief, was also the self-styled “Crocodile of Wall Street” who rapped under the name Razzlekahn. Netflix made a documentary about them.

利希滕斯坦和摩根承认盗窃罪。利希滕斯坦被判处五年徒刑。摩根被判18个月。摩根除了是一名小偷之外，还是一个自封为“华尔街鳄鱼”的人，以拉兹勒卡恩（Razzlekahn）的名义进行说唱。 Netflix 制作了一部关于他们的纪录片。

“While the public may be enthralled by these larger-than-life personalities, to me the real story is how their case helps reshape our understanding of cryptocurrency from an anonymous to a pseudo-anonymous form of exchange,” Feingold said in her blog. “Most people can still use cryptocurrency to make transactions without sharing the details with their families and banks, but criminals cannot rely on cryptocurrencies to hide their crimes and shield them from prosecution.”

Feingold 在她的博客中表示：“虽然公众可能会被这些传奇人物所吸引，但对我来说，真正的故事是他们的案例如何帮助我们重塑对加密货币的理解，从匿名到伪匿名的交换形式。” “大多数人仍然可以使用加密货币进行交易，而无需与家人和银行分享详细信息，但犯罪分子不能依靠加密货币来隐藏他们的罪行并保护他们免受起诉。”