斯蒂芬·莫拉 (Stephen Mollah)，最新一位声称发明了比特币的人物

戴着彩色头巾、迷彩裤、黑色西装外套和长长的灰色胡须——一个名叫斯蒂芬·莫拉的男人成为了最新的角色

A man named Stephen Mollah has claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin, unveiling his identity at an event in London on Oct. 31. About a dozen journalists gathered at the Front Line Club after being promised they would finally meet the real Satoshi Nakamoto.

一位名叫斯蒂芬·莫拉 (Stephen Mollah) 的男子自称是比特币的发明者，并于 10 月 31 日在伦敦举行的一次活动中公布了自己的身份。大约十几名记者在被承诺最终会见到真正的中本聪后聚集在前线俱乐部。

However, from the beginning, many journalists were skeptical of the claims, especially given the hefty price tag to attend the event and ask questions of the supposed billionaire mystery man.

然而，从一开始，许多记者就对这些说法表示怀疑，特别是考虑到参加活动并向这位所谓的亿万富翁神秘人提问的高昂费用。

BBC News reporter Joe Tidy live-tweeted the event on X, and his tweets provide a first-hand account of the unfolding scene. According to The Financial Times, the presentation from Mollah and event organizer Charles Anderson kicked off by testing the microphone with the classic: “Testicles, one, two, three.”

BBC 新闻记者 Joe Tidy 在 X 上直播了这一事件，他的推文提供了对这一场景的第一手报道。据英国《金融时报》报道，莫拉和活动组织者查尔斯·安德森的演讲以测试麦克风开始，用经典的“睾丸，一，二，三”。

Apparently, Anderson went on to monologue about how he invented “energy recovery systems” in cars and appeared on Britain’s Got Talent. At least one reporter had already walked out by this point.

显然，安德森继续独白他如何发明汽车“能量回收系统”，并出现在英国达人秀节目中。此时至少有一名记者已经走了出去。

After 40 minutes, Mollah took to the stage dressed like an eccentric grandpa, finally revealing himself to be Satoshi Nakamoto — or so he claimed. Among Mollah’s various reported words of wisdom were him saying that he is a “business person who does business,” and an economic and monetary scientist before claiming he is Satoshi.

40 分钟后，Mollah 打扮得像个古怪的爷爷，最终表明自己就是中本聪——至少他是这么声称的。在莫拉的各种智慧之言中，他说自己是“做生意的商人”，也是一位经济和货币科学家，然后才声称自己是中本聪。

A representative from BitMEX Research also said that Mollah claimed to invent the Twitter logo, the Eurobond and the “ChatGPT protocol” during the bizarre event.

BitMEX Research 的一名代表还表示，Mollah 声称在这次离奇事件中发明了 Twitter 徽标、欧洲债券和“ChatGPT 协议”。

But when it came to providing proof of his so-called claims, Mollah reportedly fell short. According to DL News, Mollah sped through screenshots of Nakamoto’s posts on a Bitcoin forum from nearly 16 years ago, which Tidy pointed out were “easy to fake.”

但据报道，在提供其所谓主张的证据时，莫拉未能做到这一点。据 DL News 报道，Mollah 快速浏览了近 16 年前中本聪在比特币论坛上发帖的截图，Tidy 指出这些帖子“很容易伪造”。

Mollah, however, claimed they were “timestamped” and that he has “paper copies,” which, according to him, proves he published them… somehow.

然而，莫拉声称它们带有“时间戳”，并且他有“纸质副本”，据他说，这证明他以某种方式出版了它们。

Tidy said he then asked Mollah to do a live transfer of Nakamoto’s famed “Genesis coins” on stage. But Mollah said he didn’t have the keys to those early Bitcoin wallets, which had been split into eight parts and put on eight computers “around the world.”

蒂迪说，他随后要求莫拉在舞台上现场转移中本聪著名的“创世币”。但莫拉表示，他没有那些早期比特币钱包的钥匙，这些钱包被分成八个部分，并放置在“世界各地”的八台电脑上。

He also said groups were chasing him to try to hack his devices for the massive crypto haul.

他还表示，有团体正在追捕他，试图破解他的设备以获取大量加密货币。

Mollah is the latest in a line of would-be Nakamotos whose claims or evidence have fallen flat. Earlier this month, an HBO documentary slotted inaccurate information together to claim Canadian Bitcoin dev Peter Todd was the Bitcoin maker, which he denied.

莫拉是一系列可能成为中本聪的人中最新的一个，但他们的主张或证据均已落空。本月早些时候，HBO 的一部纪录片将不准确的信息放在一起，声称加拿大比特币开发者 Peter Todd 是比特币的制造者，但他否认了这一点。

Australian computer scientist Craig Wright was another long-time Nakamoto claimant with no evidence. In March, England’s High Court ruled he wasn’t the Bitcoin inventor, and Wright later admitted as much.

澳大利亚计算机科学家克雷格·赖特（Craig Wright）是另一位长期对中本聪提出索赔但没有证据的人。今年三月，英格兰高等法院裁定他不是比特币发明者，赖特后来也承认了这一点。

Mollah and Anderson are also in a legal fight over their claim, with a private prosecution by alleged victim Dlmit Dohil accusing the pair of dishonestly claiming that Mollah was Nakamoto, which exposed him to a risk of loss, per an Oct. 10 report in the London Standard.

Mollah 和 Anderson 也就他们的主张展开了法律斗争，根据《华尔街日报》10 月 10 日的报道，据称受害人 Dlmit Dohil 提起自诉，指控两人不诚实地声称 Mollah 是中本聪，这使他面临损失的风险。伦敦标准。

Both pleaded not guilty to fraud by false representation last month at a London crown court and were given bail with a trial set for Nov. 3, 2025.

上个月，两人在伦敦皇家法院对虚假陈述欺诈罪不认罪，并获得保释，审判定于 2025 年 11 月 3 日进行。