都说「比特币的创始人被找到了」，我们觉得可能没这么简单

「比特币的创始人中本聪被找到了！」相信这应该是这两天全世界最热门的新闻之一，经由 BBC、The Economics 以及 GQ 的报道，Craig Wright，这位澳大利亚人被认为就是比特币的发明者「中本聪（Satoshi Nakamoto）」的真身。

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2008 年，中本聪在网上发表了一篇名为《比特币：一种点对点式的电子现金系统》（Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System）的论文，这为比特币的出现打下了基础。后来，到了 2009 年，他开发出了第一版比特币客户端程序 Bitcoin v0.1，获得了自己的第一笔比特币，这也标志着比特币金融体系的诞生。到当年年底，世界上一共产生了 160 多万枚比特币。

In 2008, Nakamoto published an online paper entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, which laid the foundation for the emergence of Bitcoin. Later, in 2009, he developed his first version of Bitcoin v. 0.1, which was his first bitcoin, marking the birth of the Bitcoin financial system. By the end of the year, the world had produced more than 1.6 million bitcoins.

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如果大家有印象的话，在去年年底的时候，就有一波消息称 Craig Wright 就是比特币的真正发明者，当时爆出消息的是《连线》杂志和 Gizmodo。然而，在一天之后，就有众多的媒体做出了质疑，认为这些证据都不够有力，不能就此表明 Craig Wright 就是中本聪，我们当时也为大家都做了报道。当时，在我们的分析中，我们还是倾向于认为 Wright 是比特币从早期开始的管理者，但可能不是那个传说中的发明者「中本聪」。

If you remember, at the end of last year, there was a wave of news that Craig Wright was the real inventor of Bitcoin , which we thought was not the most powerful of this

而这次，虽然在昨天晚上的时候，Wright 就是中本聪的消息似乎已经板上钉钉了，但今天早上，又有一些专业的分析认为这还是一个不可信的消息，Wright 绝对不是中本聪。那么，问题就来了：Wright 到底是不是「中本聪」？为什么有关「中本聪」的消息如此扑朔迷离？中本聪是谁真的重要吗？

And this time, even though, last night, it seems that the news of Mid-Sight seems to have been nailed, this morning, some professional analysis suggests that it's still unconvincing, and Wright is definitely not. So, the question arises: is Wright the "Middle-Sight"? Why is the news of "Middle-Sight" so evasive? Does it really matter who is?

根据 BBC 给出的说明，Wright 在他们面前用比特币发展初期创建的密钥签署了数字信息，这些密钥一直以来都被认为与中本聪创建的比特币区块密不可分；同时，Wright 还展示了有史以来第一笔比特币交易，在 2009 年 1 月，中本聪向帮助构建比特币协议的程序员之一——Hal Finney 转账了 10 个比特币。这些都被认为是非常有力的证据。

According to a note from BBC , Wright signed digital information in front of them with keys created in the early stages of bitcoin development, which have always been considered integral to the bitcoin blocks created by middle-tongue; at the same time, Wright also showed the first bitcoin transaction in history, and in January 2009, he transferred 10 bitcoins to Hal Finney, one of the programmers who helped build the bitcoins.

同时，今天，比特币基金会的首席科学家 Gavin Andresen 也出面表态称他确信 Craig Wright 就是中本聪。作为比特币领域最重要的成员之一，Andresen 在经过了与 Wright 的交流之后表示，「这是一个极度了解比特币的人，他尤其对比特币早期的内容非常了解」，Andresen 说道，「与他交谈的感觉就像是我之前和中本聪在交谈一样。」

At the same time, Gavin Andresen, the chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, said today that he was convinced that Craig Wright was Chinese. As one of the most important members of the Bitcoin field, Andresen, after an exchange with Wright, said, "This is a man who knows bitcoin extremely well, and he knows the early content of Bitcoin in particular." Andresen said, "b" said, "It feels like he was talking to me before."

然而，这似乎还无法彻底证明这一切。

However, this does not seem to be conclusively proven.

首先，事实上，虽然《经济学人》杂志发表了有关「Craig Wright 就是中本聪」的相关文章，但他们给出的结论其实是有所保留的，他们的原话在此：「Our conclusion is that Mr Wright could well be Mr Nakamoto, but that important questions remain.（我们的结论是，Wright 可能就是中本聪，但仍然有一些重要的问题没有得到解决。）」他们甚至认为我们永远无法确定比特币的发明者究竟是谁。

First, although Economists published a related article about "Craig Wright is Middle-Hearing" "Ourconclusion is that Mr Wright could well be Mr Nakamoto, but that important questions remain unresolved.

其次，根据《连线》的文章，虽然 Wright 本人在自己的网站上发表了一篇博文来说明他就是中本聪，但其实这其中仍然疑点重重。程序员 Patrick McKenzie 就在 Github 上发表了分析文章称「博文中反映出来的水平只是一位很熟悉这个加密系统的系统管理员的水平，根本无法说明他就是中本聪。」在美国的论坛上，许多专业的黑客们都认为 Wright 使用的文本和签名早在 2009 年就已经作为比特币数据区块（BlockChain）的一部分公布出来了，因此他所说的根本站不住脚。

Second, according to , although Wright himself published a blog post on his website to show that he is a central person, but that there is still a lot of doubt about it.

此外，今天，澳大利亚著名的网络黑客和网络安全博主 Nik Cubrilovic 也发表了长文，标题就是「Craig Wright 不是中本聪」。文中他分析了 7 点 Wright 不是中本聪的原因，其中从专业技术到时间再到熟人的判断均有涉及，看上去很有说服力。最终，他认为这些证据都是 Craig Wright 伪造的。（这篇文章很长很专业，推荐大家都去看看）

In addition, today, , the title of which is , "Craig Wright is not half-hearing" /b. He analyzes seven points wright is not the reason why half-hearing is involved, from professional skills to time to familiar judgment, and seems convincing. In the end, he believes that all of the evidence is forged by Craig Wright.

根据以上这些各方的信息汇总，我个人认为我们还无法认定 Craig Wright 就是中本聪。

On the basis of a summary of all these sources, I personally do not believe that we can yet conclude that Craig Wright is Chinese.

事实上，从比特币被发明伊始，有关「中本聪是谁」的争论就从未停止，这也是因为「中本聪」确实隐藏得太好了，从未有某个人真的见过中本聪本人，因为他与外界的联系都是通过电子的方式进行；并且在 2011 年 4 月的时候，通过一封邮件，中本聪宣布他退出了比特币的游戏，兴趣转向了其他领域，从此之后，他基本就销声匿迹了。

In fact, the debate about "who is this person" has never stopped since Bitcoin was invented, because it is truly so well hidden that no one has ever actually seen him, because his contact with the outside world is by electronic means; and in April 2011, by an e-mail, he announced that he had withdrawn from the Bitcoin game and that interest had shifted to other areas, and since then he has largely disappeared.

在 2014 年的时候，《新闻周刊》记者 Leah McGrath Goodman 发表文章称自己已经找到了中本聪，那个人就是中本哲史，是一个居住在加利福尼亚州的日裔美国人，名叫多利安?中本聪，或者是多利安?中本哲史。不过随后这个消息受到了广泛的质疑，而中本聪本人后来也发声称自己「不是多利安?中本聪」。

In 2014, Leah McGrath Goodman, a journalist for Newsweek, published an article stating that he had found a Chinese benevolent, a Japanese American living in California called Dorian, or Dorian, or Dorian. But then the news was widely questioned, and he himself later claimed that he was "not Dorian?

（曾被误认的多利安?中本聪）

♪ I've been mistaken for Dorian? ♪

去年 12 月的传言我们也已经为大家做过了介绍，可 Craig Wright 的身份仍然无法完全确定。

Last December's rumor that we've already introduced you, but Craig Wright's identity is still uncertain.

根据《经济学人》的观点，如果想自己是比特币之父，Wright 还需要回答 4 个问题：第一，Wright 能否证明自己拥有只有中本聪本人才有的密钥？第二，他能否为自己去年 12 月第一次被怀疑是中本聪时自己故事的漏洞提供合理解释？第三，他是否具有足够的技术知识来开发比特币这样复杂的系统？第四个检验较为主观，主要要看他在多大程度上符合那些曾与中本聪在线上合作过的计算机科学家的印象？

According to The Economist, if you want to be the father of Bitcoin, Wright needs to answer four questions: First, is Wright able to prove that he has only the key that he owns? Secondly, is he able to provide a reasonable explanation for the loopholes in his story last December, when he was first suspected of being a mediumblog? Thirdly, is he equipped with sufficient technical knowledge to develop a system as complex as Bitcoin? The fourth test is more subjective, depending on the extent to which he meets the impression of a computer scientist who worked with the middlebrow online.

很显然，Wright 并不能完全满足这些条件。甚至我们也可以说，想要真正找到这个人恐怕是不可能完成的任务了，如果他本人不能很明确地站出来承认的话。

Obviously, Wright does not fully meet these conditions. Even we can say that it is impossible to really find this person, if he is not able to come forward and admit it.

最后，让我们来想想看，中本聪是谁真的重要吗？

In the end, let's see, does it really matter who Ben-sung is?

首先，就像我们之前所说的那样，「事实上，知道是谁发明了比特币对其本身并没有什么影响，因为这就是一个开源的技术，任何人都可以到 GitHub 上查询源代码，对其进行调整。」

First of all, like > we said earlier, "knowing who invented Bitcoin has nothing to do with itself, because this is an open source technology where anyone can access GitHub and adjust the source code."

不过，对那些持有比特币的投资者来说，他们可能更关心这件事。目前全球比特币目前总值在 70 亿美元左右，每枚比特币的交易价格大概在 450 美元左右。而作为发明者本人，中本聪本身可能拥有超过 100 万的比特币，其总价大概在 4.5 亿美元左右，一旦他抛出如此大量的比特币，会对这个货币体系造成重大的冲击。

For investors with bitcoins, however, they may be more concerned about it. The current global value of bitcoins is around $7 billion, and the transaction price per bitcoin is around $450.

但是，在这里，我想 Bloomberg View 的文章标题可能更值得大家的借鉴：Bitcoin's Creator Is Human. Get Over It.。对，无论中本聪是谁，他只是我们人类中普通的一员而已；比特币的诞生与存在代表了一种无政府主义的态度，这种对绝对自由市场、自由主义的追求本身就是一种精神的象征，作为一种投资手段的比特币只是它的一部分物质投射而已。人们对「中本聪」的好奇从很大程度上只是一种好奇心作祟以及对个人英雄主义的推崇，能找到他挺好；找不到了，也别忘了比特币最初诞生时的理念和态度。

But here, I think the title of BloombergView's article might be more useful: Bitcoin's Creator Is Human. Get Over It . For anyone in the middle, he's just one of us. The birth and existence of