在 Web3 時代以比特幣為基礎

Botanix Labs 執行長 Willem Shroé 表示，我們需要一場文化、哲學和技術運動，讓比特幣恢復在去中心化金融領域曾經的突出地位。

Blockchains like Solana, Ethereum, and even the Lightning Network have been capitalizing on Bitcoin’s stagnation. Now is the time to return Bitcoin to its former glory as the hub of innovation.

Solana、以太坊甚至閃電網路等區塊鏈一直在利用比特幣的停滯。現在是讓比特幣恢復昔日作為創新中心的輝煌的時候了。

A few days after Credit Suisse pled guilty in a $2.6 billion settlement for helping their wealthiest clients evade American taxes for decades, Edmund Moy, Director of the United States Mint from 2006 to 2011, had an epiphany. Seeing public statements from the bank’s chief executive, Brady W. Dougan, hours after the charges were announced — which said the fine “won’t do much damage” — Moy wrote on X, “It’s time banks got competition.”

瑞信因幾十年來幫助其最富有的客戶逃稅而以 26 億美元和解金認罪，幾天后，2006 年至 2011 年擔任美國鑄幣局局長的埃德蒙·莫伊 (Edmund Moy) 頓悟了。看到該銀行首席執行官布雷迪·W·道根(Brady W. Dougan) 在指控宣布幾小時後發表的公開聲明——其中表示罰款“不會造成太大損害”——莫伊在X 上寫道，“現在是銀行展開競爭的時候了。”

The experience inspired him to write “The Currency Revolution, Courtesy of Bitcoin,” and to articulate a philosophy that put Bitcoin at the center of a movement he recognized as having the ultimate aim of disrupting money, payments, and all areas of finance. Through his own experience in the financial establishment, Moy started to believe Bitcoin could disrupt “traditional notions” of currencies, banking, and financial technology as a whole by ushering in a permissionless, decentralized financial system.

這段經歷啟發他撰寫了《貨幣革命，由比特幣提供》，並闡明了一種哲學，將比特幣置於一場運動的中心，他認為這場運動的最終目標是顛覆貨幣、支付和所有金融領域。透過自己在金融機構的經驗，莫伊開始相信比特幣可以透過引入無需許可的去中心化金融體系來顛覆貨幣、銀行和金融科技的「傳統觀念」。

Bitcoin was buzzing with invention in those early years, and progress toward the guiding ethos of disrupting traditional finance seemed to be speeding up as a result. Tether launched on Bitcoin during this time, primitive decentralized exchanges like Bisq were launched for Bitcoin traders, and tokens – fungible and non-fungible – popped up like weeds, also on Bitcoin. The industry’s mood was a mix of exuberance, anxiety, and greed.

早年，比特幣的發明蓬勃發展，顛覆傳統金融的指導精神的進展似乎正在加快。在此期間，Tether 在比特幣上推出，為比特幣交易者推出了像 Bisq 這樣的原始去中心化交易所，可替代和不可替代的代幣也像雜草一樣在比特幣上湧現。該行業的情緒是興奮、焦慮和貪婪的混合體。

The vision Moy articulated was shared by nearly every Bitcoin enthusiast, but opinions on how to actualize these ideas of decentralized money and finance differed widely. From stablecoins to NFTs, almost every category of application commonly used in the decentralized finance industry today has its roots in Bitcoin, but a strong ideological undercurrent started to create a cultural shift toward discouraging and combating these projects.

幾乎所有比特幣愛好者都認同 Moy 所闡述的願景，但對於如何實現這些去中心化貨幣和金融的想法，意見卻有很大差異。從穩定幣到 NFT，當今去中心化金融業常用的幾乎所有類別的應用程式都源自於比特幣，但一股強大的意識形態暗流開始產生一種文化轉變，以阻止和打擊這些計畫。

From Satoshi Dice in 2012 to Ordinals in 2024, Bitcoin’s history is littered with experimental projects that have been lambasted for spamming, polluting, or distracting the Bitcoin community from its mission. As a result, the developers, users, and capital that could have flowed to an industry of financial applications running on Bitcoin were incrementally pushed to other public blockchains.

從 2012 年的 Satoshi Dice 到 2024 年的 Ordinals，比特幣的歷史上充斥著實驗項目，這些項目因垃圾郵件、污染或分散比特幣社區的使命而受到嚴厲批評。結果，本來可以流向比特幣金融應用產業的開發者、用戶和資本被逐漸推向其他公鏈。

Imagine creating a new financial system with a strong currency and nowhere to use it. That would be the inevitable outcome for Bitcoin if this anti-innovation movement was successful. Thankfully, they were not as the industry has witnessed over the past two years with inscriptions, runes, new layer-two networks, and other types of innovative projects being built on and around Bitcoin. Billions of dollars from professional investors and retail speculators alike have poured into kicking off what many market participants see as a new era for Bitcoin, but in reality, it marks a cultural return to Bitcoin’s original mission of disrupting and decentralizing the world of finance.

想像一下，創造一個擁有強勢貨幣但無處可使用的新金融體系。如果這場反創新運動成功，這將是比特幣不可避免的結果。值得慶幸的是，它們並不像過去兩年業界所見證的那樣，包括銘文、符文、新的第二層網路以及基於比特幣和圍繞比特幣構建的其他類型的創新項目。來自專業投資者和散戶投機者的數十億美元投入，開啟了許多市場參與者認為的比特幣新時代，但實際上，這標誌著比特幣在文化上回歸了最初的使命，即顛覆和去中心化金融世界。

Bitcoin is the best public blockchain in this industry of thousands of competitors. Bitcoin not only has the largest and most recognizable brand inside and outside the cryptocurrency industry, it also controls the largest pool of capital in crypto, which sits just over $1 trillion today. Bitcoin is also the most battle-tested public blockchain in the world with thousands of nodes running around the world and 100% network uptime for 11 consecutive years. Bitcoin is the biggest, most secure, most decentralized, most reliable permissionless financial network in the world. Building on Bitcoin means building on the best.

比特幣是這個擁有數千個競爭對手的行業中最好的公共區塊鏈。比特幣不僅在加密貨幣產業內外擁有最大、最知名的品牌，還控制著加密貨幣領域最大的資本池，目前該資本池剛超過 1 兆美元。比特幣也是全球最久經考驗的公鏈，在全球有數千個節點運行，網路連續11年100%正常運行。比特幣是世界上最大、最安全、最去中心化、最可靠的無需許可的金融網路。以比特幣為基礎意味著以最好的為基礎。

But Bitcoin has a lot of catching up to do. Solana, Ethereum, and other blockchains have spent years capitalizing on Bitcoin’s near complete stagnation by incubating ecosystems that are home to hundreds of applications, thousands of users, and billions of dollars. Even the Lightning Network, which has long been the darling of the “anti-DeFi” sect in Bitcoin, has seen the number of coins held on its network stagnant for years.

但比特幣還有很多工作要做。 Solana、以太坊和其他區塊鏈多年來一直在利用比特幣幾乎完全停滯的機會，孵化數百個應用程式、數千名用戶和數十億美元的生態系統。即使是長期以來一直是比特幣「反 DeFi」派寵兒的閃電網絡，其網路上持有的代幣數量也多年來停滯不前。

Now is the time to recommit to making Bitcoin the home of innovation and experimentation in the cryptocurrency industry again. If Bitcoin is not the gateway to permissionless finance for new users, we will have failed. If Bitcoin becomes nothing more than an asset custodied by ETF providers, we will have failed. If the world’s best form of money is not adopted alongside the development of a native financial system powered by Bitcoin, we will have failed. The technocultural norms and habits that have arrested Bitcoin development for years must be stomped out completely.

現在是時候重新致力於讓比特幣再次成為加密貨幣產業創新和實驗的家了。如果比特幣不是新用戶通往無需許可的金融的門戶，我們就會失敗。如果比特幣只是成為 ETF 提供者所託管的資產，我們就失敗了。如果世界上最好的貨幣形式不被採用，同時發展以比特幣為動力的本土金融體系，我們就會失敗。多年來阻礙比特幣發展的技術文化規範和習慣必須徹底消除。

Building the future of money and finance on Bitcoin requires an army of builders. In the past two years, hundreds of new founders and engineers have started building on Bitcoin, but that number needs to continue growing. At Botanix Labs, we are developing one piece of Bitcoin’s future with a Layer 2 network called the Spiderchain. But everyone building anything with Bitcoin should be proud to be among this multitude of people collaborating with each other to bootstrap a decentralized financial ecosystem. Bitcoin’

在比特幣上建構貨幣和金融的未來需要一支建設者大軍。在過去的兩年裡，數百名新創辦人和工程師已經開始在比特幣上進行開發，但這個數字需要繼續成長。在 Botanix Labs，我們正在透過稱為蜘蛛鏈的第 2 層網路來開發比特幣的未來之一。但每個用比特幣建立任何東西的人都應該為自己成為眾多相互合作以引導去中心化金融生態系統的人而感到自豪。比特幣'