早期的比特币企业家查理·谢勒姆（Charlie Shrem）正在带回比特币水龙头

早期的比特币企业家查理·谢勒姆（Charlie Shrem）说，他正在努力带回比特币水龙头 - 一个网站，将比特币分发给解决方案任务的任何人

Early Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem says he’s working on bringing back the Bitcoin faucet — a website that hands out Bitcoin to whoever solves CAPTCHA tasks, normally used to distinguish humans from machines.

早期的比特币企业家查理·谢勒姆（Charlie Shrem）说，他正在努力带回比特币水龙头，该网站将比特币分发给解决方案任务的任何人，通常用于将人类与机器区分开。

Shrem shared his new Bitcoin (BTC) faucet website — 21million.com — in a May 4 X post, which mimics the first-ever Bitcoin CAPTCHA page created by early Bitcoin innovator Gavin Andresen back in 2010.

Shrem在5月4日的帖子中分享了他的新比特币（BTC）水龙头网站 - 2100万.com，该网站模仿了2010年早期比特币创新者Gavin Andresen创建的有史以来的第一个比特币验证码页面。

The 21million.com website currently displays a screenshot of a CAPTCHA task and a box to enter a receiving Bitcoin address, which was not functional at the time of writing.

2100万.com网站当前显示了验证码任务的屏幕截图和输入接收比特币地址的框，该地址在撰写时不起作用。

Shrem’s Bitcoin faucet website also shows that there are 0 Bitcoin available to claim.

Shrem的比特币水龙头网站还表明，有0个比特币可供要求。

Like Andresen’s old website, Shrem’s page explains what Bitcoin is and how to receive Bitcoin.

就像安德森（Andresen）的旧网站一样，Shrem的页面说明了比特币是什么以及如何接收比特币。

“What’s the catch?” According to Shrem, there is no catch. “I want Bitcoin to be successful, so I created this little service to give you a few coins to start with.”

“捕获是什么？”根据Shrem的说法，没有渔获物。 “我希望比特币成功，所以我创建了这项小型服务，为您提供了一些硬币。”

When asked whether Shrem is “vibe coding” the project or receiving external assistance, he responded: “Vibe coded! It’s a lot of fun.” Vibe coding relies on artificial intelligence and prompting to write code.

当被问及Shrem是“氛围编码”该项目或获得外部帮助时，他回答：“编码氛围！这很有趣。” Vibe编码依赖于人工智能并提示编写代码。

Bitcoin faucets assisted Bitcoin adoption in the early days

比特币水龙头早期辅助比特币采用

Bitcoin faucets were key in spreading awareness about the cryptocurrency and facilitating its adoption in the early 2010s.

比特币水龙头是传播对加密货币并促进其在2010年代初采用的关键。

Andresen’s Bitcoin Faucet page handed out 19,700 Bitcoin — now worth $1.86 billion — for solving CAPTCHAs.

安德森（Andresen）的比特币水龙头页面分发了19,700比特币（现在价值18.6亿美元），用于解决验证码。

Users could earn up to 5 Bitcoin per day from Andresen’s page. The Bitcoin faucets encouraged wallet creation and transactions, which assisted with the expansion of Bitcoin’s user base and network activity.

用户每天可以从Andresen的页面赚取多达5个比特币。比特币水龙头鼓励了钱包的创建和交易，这有助于扩大比特币的用户群和网络活动。

Other websites such as FreeBitco.in started offering similar services between 2011 and 2013. But as Bitcoin’s price increased and transaction fees rose, rewards shrank, and the model eventually became unsustainable.

诸如FreeBitco.in等其他网站开始在2011年至2013年之间提供类似的服务。但是，随着比特币的价格上涨和交易费用上升，奖励萎缩，模型最终变得不可持续。

Shrem’s crypto journey has been a rollercoaster

Shrem的加密之旅一直是过山车

Shrem co-founded one of the first Bitcoin exchanges, BitInstant, with Gareth Nelson in 2011. At its peak, the exchange facilitated around 30% of all Bitcoin transactions, according to Shrem’s personal page.

Shrem在2011年与Gareth Nelson共同创立了最早的比特币交易所之一。根据Shrem的个人页面，该交易所达到了最高峰，该交易所促进了所有比特币交易的30％。

In order to offer the instant Bitcoin purchases that Bitcoin’s first dominant exchange, Mt. Gox, lacked, BitInstant purchased Bitcoin from Mt. Gox in large batches before reselling it to customers nearly instantly.

为了提供比特币第一个主要交易所的即时比特币购买，缺乏比特币的Gox山，Bitinstant大批从Gox山购买了比特币，然后几乎立即将其转售给客户。

However, BitInstant’s business model faced scaling issues as its transaction volume grew.

但是，随着交易量的增长，Bitinstant的业务模型面临扩展问题。

To support its expansion, the company received $100,000 from early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver, with additional backing later coming from Erik Voorhees and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

为了支持其扩张，该公司从早期的比特币投资者Roger Ver那里获得了100,000美元，后来来自Erik Voorhees，Cameron和Tyler Winklevoss。

Shrem also co-founded the Bitcoin Foundation in 2012, serving as vice chairman to encourage the adoption of Bitcoin as an alternative to traditional banking.

Shrem还于2012年共同创立了比特币基金会，担任副主席，鼓励采用比特币作为传统银行业务的替代方案。

However, on Jan. 26, 2014, Shrem was arrested while attempting to disembark from a plane in New York and later charged with money laundering related to his role with BitInstant.

但是，2014年1月26日，Shrem试图从纽约的一架飞机上下船时被捕，后来被指控与他在Bitinstant的角色有关的洗钱。

Authorities claimed that some BitInstant customers used the Bitcoin purchased from BitInstant for illicit purposes, including criminal transactions on the Silk Road dark web marketplace.

当局声称，一些BitInstant客户使用了从Bitinstant购买的比特币作为非法目的，包括在Silk Road Dark Web Marketplace上的犯罪交易。

Shrem pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and served one year before being released in 2016.

Shrem对减少的指控认罪，并在2016年获释一年。

After prison, Shrem returned to the crypto space, founding crypto advisory firm CryptoIQ and Druid Ventures, a $13 million venture capital fund. He also launched The Charlie Shrem Show, a podcast with over 400 episodes featuring some of the industry's most notable crypto figures.

监狱后，Shrem返回加密货币空间，创立了Crypto咨询公司Cryptoiq和Druid Ventures，这是一家价值1300万美元的风险投资基金。他还启动了查理·谢勒姆（Charlie Shrem Show），这是一个播客，其中包含400多集，其中包含一些行业最著名的加密货币人物。

Shrem was then sued by the Winklevoss twins in 2018, who claimed Shrem stole 5,000 Bitcoin (BTC) from them in 2012. A judge overturned an asset freeze against Shrem and ordered the brothers to cover Shrem’s legal fees in November 2018. The case was settled confidentially in 2019.

然后，Shrem在2018年被Winklevoss双胞胎起诉，他于2012年从他们偷走了5,000个比特币（BTC）。法官推翻了针对Shrem的资产冻结，并命令兄弟俩在2018年11月弥补Shrem的法律费用。该案在2019年秘密地解决了此案。