中本聪是谁？ 《Money Electric：比特币之谜》纪录片声称已查明加密货币创始人的真实身份

由卡伦·霍巴克（Cullen Hoback）（《Q：进入风暴》）执导的 HBO 新纪录片《金钱电力：比特币之谜》声称已经查明了这个难以捉摸的人物的身份

People are still trying to figure out who created Bitcoin, even though the cryptocurrency has been around for almost 15 years. But for those who already know, there is a more pressing question: Who created global economics?

尽管加密货币已经存在了近 15 年，但人们仍在试图弄清楚是谁创造了比特币。但对于那些已经知道的人来说，还有一个更紧迫的问题：谁创造了全球经济？

The new HBO documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, directed by Cullen Hoback (Q: Into the Storm), claims to have uncovered the identity of the mysterious figure who has been known only by the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" up to this point.

由卡伦·霍巴克（Cullen Hoback）（《Q：陷入风暴》）执导的 HBO 新纪录片《金钱电力：比特币之谜》声称已经揭开了迄今为止仅以化名“中本聪”为人所知的神秘人物的身份。

The documentary, which had its premiere on October 8, begins by explaining what cryptocurrency is for beginners and then taking viewers on a journey through its lengthy and tumultuous past.

这部纪录片于 10 月 8 日首映，首先向初学者解释加密货币是什么，然后带领观众回顾其漫长而动荡的过去。

"Who cares about Bitcoin?" Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, can be heard asking rhetorically in an old clip that appears at the beginning of the documentary as the screen displays the value of one bitcoin in 2010.

“谁关心比特币？”在纪录片开头的一段旧片段中，当屏幕显示 2010 年一枚比特币的价值时，可以听到摩根大通 (JPMorgan Chase) 首席执行官杰米·戴蒙 (Jamie Dimon) 反问。

Consider this a spoiler: It costs 23 cents.

将此视为剧透：售价 23 美分。

A group of people, including Donald Trump, can be seen and heard describing Bitcoin as a "scam" as we watch onscreen as its value increases over the following years. According to the documentary, "Bitcoin has become the 10th most valuable asset in the world" a decade and a half after it was first made available to the public.

当我们在屏幕上看到比特币的价值在接下来的几年里不断上涨时，可以看到和听到包括唐纳德·特朗普在内的一群人将比特币描述为“骗局”。根据这部纪录片，在首次向公众开放十五年后，“比特币已成为世界上第十大最有价值的资产”。

However, the question that is valued at a trillion dollars continues to be unanswered: Who was the inventor?

然而，价值数万亿美元的问题仍然没有答案：发明者是谁？

Satoshi Nakamoto, who might be a genius behind the decentralized, libertarian dream currency and could be worth more than $1 trillion, is said to be the person behind it — but no-one by that name actually exists. And, as the documentary goes on to explain, Nakamoto disappeared years ago, leading to "the greatest mystery of the internet age" — the Gen Z version of "Who killed Jimmy Hoffa?" and "What happened to D.B. Cooper"?

中本聪可能是去中心化、自由主义的梦想货币背后的天才，据说他就是这个货币背后的人，其身价可能超过 1 万亿美元，但实际上并没有叫这个名字的人。而且，正如纪录片继续解释的那样，中本聪几年前就失踪了，导致了“互联网时代最大的谜团”——Z 世代版本的“谁杀了吉米·霍法？”和“DB库珀怎么了”？

Bitcoin was created in 2008 by Nakamoto, and then they seemed to vanish around the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011, before the cryptocurrency really took off.

比特币由中本聪于 2008 年创建，然后在 2010 年底或 2011 年初左右，即加密货币真正起飞之前，它们似乎就消失了。

Cullen travels around the world and speaks to various experts and insiders, including Blockstream CEO Adam Back, early Bitcoin developer Peter Todd and "Bitcoin Jesus" Roger Ver, to get to the bottom of why Satoshi vanished and, more importantly, who they are. Are they still alive? Did they ever even exist?

卡伦走遍世界各地，与各种专家和内部人士交谈，包括 Blockstream 首席执行官 Adam Back、早期比特币开发者 Peter Todd 和“比特币耶稣”Roger Ver，以查明中本聪消失的原因，更重要的是，了解他们是谁。他们还活着吗？它们曾经存在过吗？

At one point, Australian businessman Craig Wright claimed to be Nakamoto, which effectively ruled him out and eventually landed him in the crosshairs of the U.K. High Court.

澳大利亚商人克雷格·赖特(Craig Wright)一度自称是中本聪，这实际上排除了他的可能性，并最终让他成为英国高等法院的焦点。

The documentary throws out several other names — Blockstream cofounder Gregory Maxwell, computer scientist Nick Szabo, researcher and investor Wei Dei and the late Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney — before landing on one man: Peter Todd.

这部纪录片抛出了其他几个名字——Blockstream 联合创始人格雷戈里·麦克斯韦尔 (Gregory Maxwell)、计算机科学家尼克·萨博 (Nick Szabo)、研究员兼投资者 Wei Dei 和已故比特币先驱哈尔·芬尼 (Hal Finney)——最后只提到了一个人：彼得·托德 (Peter Todd)。

Todd, a young Canadian who was still a college student in the early days of Bitcoin, says he didn't get involved in Bitcoin until 2014. But Cullen uncovers evidence that Todd had posted on the Bitcoin forum as far back as 2010, finishing one of Nakamoto's thoughts before disappearing from the platform two days before Nakamoto vanished from the forum.

托德 (Todd) 是一位年轻的加拿大人，在比特币发展初期还是一名大学生，他表示自己直到 2014 年才涉足比特币。但卡伦发现了托德早在 2010 年就在比特币论坛上发帖的证据，并完成了一篇文章中本聪从论坛消失前两天的想法。

Todd starts chuckling when Cullen presents him with his suspicion. "I will admit, you're pretty creative," he says. "You come up with some crazy theories. It's ludicrous, but it's the kind of theory that someone who spends his time as a documentary journalist would come up with."

当卡伦向托德提出自己的怀疑时，托德开始咯咯地笑。 “我承认，你很有创意，”他说。 “你想出了一些疯狂的理论。这很荒唐，但这是那些花时间做纪录片记者的人会想出的理论。”

He goes on to call Cullen's theory "just another example of journalists really missing the point in a way that's very funny."

他接着称卡伦的理论“只是记者以一种非常有趣的方式真正错过重点的另一个例子。”

"What is the point?" Cullen asks.

“有什么意义？”卡伦问道。

"The point is to make Bitcoin the global currency," Todd replies, still chuckling, "and people like you being distracted by nonsense."

“重点是让比特币成为全球货币，”托德回答道，仍然咯咯笑，“像你这样的人会被废话分散注意力。”

That may be amusing to Todd, but it's not exactly a denial.

这对托德来说可能很有趣，但这并不完全是否认。

Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery is available to stream right now on Max.

《Money Electric：比特币之谜》现已在 Max 上播出。

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