冒充比特币创始人的澳大利亚计算机科学家被判入狱

Craig Wright 在三月份“明显违反”了该命令，该命令禁止他发起或威胁采取与比特币相关的进一步法律行动

An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the founder of the bitcoin cryptocurrency was found to be in contempt of an order of London’s High Court on Thursday and was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years.

周四，一名谎称自己是比特币加密货币创始人的澳大利亚计算机科学家被发现藐视伦敦高等法院的一项命令，被判处 12 个月监禁，缓刑两年。

In a judgment on Thursday, Justice James Mellor said Craig Wright had committed “a clear breach” of the order in March that barred him from launching or threatening further legal action related to bitcoin, which has seen a meteoric rise in value since its launch around the time of the global financial crisis in 2008.

在周四的判决中，法官詹姆斯·梅勒 (James Mellor) 表示，克雷格·赖特 (Craig Wright) “明显违反”了 3 月份的命令，该命令禁止他发起或威胁采取与比特币相关的进一步法律行动，比特币自推出以来价值迅速上涨。 2008年，全球金融危机爆发。

Lawyers for the Crypto Open Patent Alliance, or COPA, a group of technology and cryptocurrency firms, told the court on Wednesday that Wright had issued claims worth more than 900 billion pounds ($1.1 trillion) in October from companies and individuals related to intellectual property rights connected to bitcoin.

由技术和加密货币公司组成的加密开放专利联盟 (COPA) 的律师周三告诉法庭，赖特 10 月份向与知识产权相关的公司和个人提出了价值超过 9000 亿英镑（1.1 万亿美元）的索赔连接到比特币。

The organization argued that Wright’s actions constituted contempt of court as he had been ordered to refrain from making any claims related to bitcoin in March, when Mellor ruled that he was not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the digital currency, nor the author of the initial versions of the bitcoin software.

该组织辩称，赖特的行为构成了藐视法庭，因为三月份他被勒令不得提出任何与比特币相关的主张，当时梅勒裁定他并非如他所声称的那样，是数字货币的神秘创造者，也不是作者。比特币软件的初始版本。

Mellor said it was “beyond any reasonable doubt” that Wright had indeed been in contempt of the court order.

梅勒表示，“毫无疑问”，赖特确实藐视了法庭命令。

Wright, who according to court documents is in either Indonesia or Singapore, attended Thursday’s hearing by video link. He did not attend the previous day’s session when COPA made its case.

根据法庭文件，赖特在印度尼西亚或新加坡，他通过视频链接参加了周四的听证会。他没有参加前一天 COPA 阐述观点的会议。

He said he planned to appeal the contempt finding.

他说他计划对藐视法庭的裁决提出上诉。

For eight years, Wright had claimed that he was the man behind “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonym that masked the identity of the creator of bitcoin.

八年来，赖特一直声称自己是“中本聪”背后的人，这个笔名掩盖了比特币创造者的身份。

The murky origins of bitcoin date to the height of the financial crisis in 2008. A paper authored by a person or group using the Nakamoto pen name explained how digital currency could be sent around the world anonymously, without banks or national currencies. Nakamoto seemed to vanish three years later and their identity was never established.

比特币的神秘起源可以追溯到 2008 年金融危机最严重的时候。一篇由使用中本笔名的个人或团体撰写的论文解释了如何在没有银行或本国货币的情况下在世界各地匿名发送数字货币。三年后，中本似乎消失了，他们的身份也从未被确定。

In basic terms, cryptocurrency is digital money designed to work through an online network without a central authority — meaning it’s typically not backed by any government or banking institution — and transactions get recorded with technology called a blockchain.

从根本上来说，加密货币是一种数字货币，旨在通过没有中央权威的在线网络运行——这意味着它通常不受任何政府或银行机构的支持——并且交易是通过称为区块链的技术记录的。

Bitcoin is the largest and oldest cryptocurrency, although other assets like ethereum, XRP, tether and dogecoin have also gained popularity over the years. Some investors see cryptocurrency as a “digital alternative” to traditional money, but most daily financial transactions are still conducted using currencies such as the dollar.

比特币是最大、最古老的加密货币，尽管以太坊、XRP、tether 和狗狗币等其他资产多年来也越来越受欢迎。一些投资者将加密货币视为传统货币的“数字替代品”，但大多数日常金融交易仍然使用美元等货币进行。

Wright, who first claimed he was Nakamoto in 2016, has been accused of seeking to profit from bitcoin’s huge spike in value. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, for example, bitcoin stood at just over $5,000. Earlier this month in the wake of the U.S. election victory of Donald Trump, who is a big supporter of cryptocurrencies, it breached the $100,000 level for the first time.

赖特于 2016 年首次声称自己是中本聪，他被指控试图从比特币价值的大幅上涨中获利。例如，2020 年初 COVID-19 大流行开始时，比特币价格略高于 5,000 美元。本月早些时候，加密货币的大力支持者唐纳德·特朗普在美国大选中获胜后，加密货币的价格首次突破 10 万美元大关。

The currency remains hugely volatile. On Thursday, it was trading at around $80,000, down nearly a fifth in just a couple of weeks.

该货币仍然大幅波动。周四，其交易价格约为 80,000 美元，短短几周内下跌了近五分之一。