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中本聪 · 2009 年 5 月 4 日

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哎呀,我把你们的 sourceforge 用户名搞混了,很抱歉。我在找你的用户名时点错了邮件。现在你已经有访问权限了。

Oh crap, I got your sourceforge usernames mixed up, sorry about that. I clicked on the wrong e-mail when I was looking for your username. You now have access.

你的常见问题目前看起来不错!

Your FAQ looks good so far!

你可以在 bitcoin.sourceforge.net 上创建任何你想做的内容。帮助新用户迅速了解比特币是什么、如何使用,以及为什么要使用,再配上简洁专业的外观,会让它显得更成熟。我在密码学邮件列表上介绍设计论文时,bitcoin.org 的网站采用了比较学术的风格,但我们正在走出那个阶段。

You can create whatever you want on bitcoin.sourceforge.net. Something to get new users up to speed on what Bitcoin is and how to use it and why, and clean and professional looking would help make it look well established. The site at bitcoin.org was designed in a more professorial style when I was presenting the design paper on the Cryptography list, but we're moving on from that phase.

你可能应该修改“将它们分散到几个密钥下”那部分。论文里的意思是让软件来做,而它已经在这样做了。出于隐私原因,软件已为每笔交易使用不同密钥,所以你钱包里的每笔钱本来就在不同密钥下。例外是使用比特币地址时,发送到同一比特币地址的所有钱都使用同一个密钥,如果你想保持匿名,这就有隐私风险。EC-DSA 的密钥长度很强(为未来预留了余量),实际不必担心密钥被破解。不过,即使真的需要担心,它也有一个好处:别人耗费巨量计算资源,也只能破解一笔交易的钱,而不是某个人的整个账户。钱包文件如何备份的细节,在问答汇总和 readme.txt 中都有说明,肯定应该放进常见问题里。

You should probably change the part about "distribute them under several keys". When the paper says that it means for the software to do it, and it does. For privacy reasons, the software already uses a different key for every transaction, so every piece of money in your wallet is already on a different key. The exception is when using a bitcoin address, everything sent to the same bitcoin address is on the same key, which is a privacy risk if you're trying to be anonymous. The EC-DSA key size is very strong (sized for the future), we don't practically have to worry about a key getting broken, but if we did there's the advantage that someone expending the massive computing resources would only break one single transaction's worth of money, not someone's whole account. The details about how to backup your wallet files is in the Q&A dump and also it's explained in readme.txt and definitely belongs in the FAQ.

哦,我明白了,你想回应 freedomainradio 上 byronm 的担忧。我理解你为什么说密码功能有助于回应这个质疑。银行会让任何掌握你姓名和账号的人把你的账户掏空,而你也没法从 Nigeria 把钱追回来。如果有人在你的电脑上安装了键盘记录器,他同样可以轻易取得银行密码,把钱从账户里转走。等我们用密码加密钱包后,就能更清楚地说明,我们比银行安全得多。我们使用强加密,而银行仍允许任何掌握你账户信息的人从你的账户取钱。

Oh I see, you're trying to address byronm's concern on freedomainradio. I see what you mean about the password feature being useful to address that argument. Banks let anyone who has your name and account number drain your account, and you're not going to get it back from Nigeria. If someone installs a keylogger on your computer, they could just as easily get your bank password and transfer money out of your account. Once we password encrypt the wallet, we'll be able to make a clearer case that we're much more secure than banks. We use strong encryption, while banks still let anyone who has your account info draw money from your account.

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引用 Satoshi Nakamoto satoshin@gmx.com 的话:

Quoting Satoshi Nakamoto satoshin@gmx.com:

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那太好了!我已经把你(dmp1ce)加为 SourceForge 项目的开发者,也给了你编辑网站空间等内容的权限。

That would be great! I added you (dmp1ce) as a dev to the sourceforge project and gave you access to edit the web space and everything.

哦,那不是我,是另一个想帮忙的人。我在 Freedomain Radio 论坛见过他。我叫 Martti Malmi,SourceForge 账号是 sirius-m。没关系!

Oh, that's not me but another guy who wanted to help. I've seen him on the Freedomain Radio forum. My name is Martti Malmi and my Sourceforge account is sirius-m. No problem!

谢谢你发来的问题解答,我会把它们加进 FAQ。这是我目前写好的内容:

Thanks for your answered questions, I'll add them to the faq. Here's what I've done so far:

**** Bitcoin FAQ ****

**** Bitcoin FAQ ****

一般问题

General Questions

1 Bitcoin 是什么?

1 What is bitcoin?

Bitcoin 是一种基于点对点网络的匿名数字货币。点对点(P2P)意味着,没有中央机构发行新货币或记录交易。这些工作由网络节点共同完成。匿名意味着,交易双方在现实世界中的身份可以对公众保密,甚至可以不让对方知道。

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or to keep track of the transactions. Instead, those tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network. Anonymity means that the real world identity of the parties of a transaction can be kept hidden from the public or even from the parties themselves.

2 Bitcoin 如何运作?

2 How does bitcoin work?

Bitcoin 使用公钥/私钥密码学。用户 A 把一个币转给用户 B 时,A 会把 B 的公钥加到这个币上,再用自己的私钥签名。这样 B 就拥有了这个币,并且可以继续转给别人。为了防止 A 把已经花掉的币再转给另一个用户 C,Bitcoin 节点网络会共同维护一份包含此前所有交易的公开列表,并在每次交易前检查这个币是否尚未花费。

Bitcoin utilizes public/private key cryptography. When a coin is transfered from user A to user B, A adds B's public key to the coin and signs it with his own private key. Now B owns the coin and can transfer it further. To prevent A from transfering the already used coin to another user C, a public list of all the previous transactions is collectively maintained by the network of bitcoin nodes, and before each transaction the coin's unusedness will be checked.

详情请看“进阶问题”一章。

For details, see chapter Advanced Questions.

3 Bitcoin 的价值由什么支撑?

3 What is bitcoin's value backed by?

Bitcoin 的价值来自它能换到的东西,就像所有传统纸币一样。

Bitcoin is valued for the things it can be exchanged to, just like all the traditional paper currencies are.

当第一个用户公开宣布,只要有人给他一百个比特币,他就给对方做一份披萨,他就能在一定程度上用比特币付款——程度取决于人们多想吃披萨,以及多相信他的承诺。一位爱吃披萨、把他当朋友并信任他的理发师,随后可能宣布开始接受比特币,为顾客做漂亮的发型;这样比特币的价值就会更高,因为现在既能买披萨,也能理发。当比特币被足够广泛地接受后,他就可以不再经营披萨生意,仍然能使用自己存下的比特币。

When the first user publicly announces that he will make a pizza for anyone who gives him a hundred bitcoins, then he can use bitcoins as payment to some extent - as much as people want pizza and trust his announcement. A pizza-eating hairdresser who trusts him as a friend might then announce that she starts accepting bitcoins as payment for fancy haircuts, and the value of the bitcoin would be higher - now you could buy pizzas and haircuts with them. When bitcoins have become accepted widely enough, he could retire from his pizza business and still be able to use his bitcoin-savings.

4 新比特币如何产生?

4 How are new bitcoins created?

每当一个网络节点解出特定计算问题,就会产生新币。在 Bitcoin 网络最初的 4 年里,会产生 X 个币。这个数量每隔 4 年减半,因此 4 年后会产生 X/2 个,8 年后会产生 X/4 个,以此类推。所以币的总数会趋近于 2X。

New coins are generated by a network node each time it finds the solution to a certain calculational problem. In the first 4 years of the bitcoin network, amount X of coins will be created. The amount is halved each 4 years, so it will be X/2 after 4 years, X/4 after 8 years and so on. Thus the total number of coins will approach 2X.

5 Bitcoin 安全吗?

5 Is bitcoin safe?

安全,前提是你备份币的密钥,用强密码保护它们,并确保计算机没有按键记录器。如果你丢失了密钥,或者某个不明攻击者成功解开了它,就没有办法找回你的币。如果你持有大量比特币,建议把它们分散到多个密钥下。你大概也不会把所有美元或欧元都以纸币形式放进同一个钱包,再把它丢在无人看管的地方。

Yes, as long as you make backups of your coin keys, protect them with strong passwords and keep keyloggers away from your computer. If you lose your key or if some unknown attacker manages to unlock it, there's no way to get your coins back. If you have a large amount of coins, it is recommended to distribute them under several keys. You propably wouldn't either keep all your dollars or euros as paper in a single wallet and leave it unguarded.

6 为什么要使用 Bitcoin?

6 Why should I use bitcoin?

• 方便地通过互联网转账,无需信任第三方。

• Transfer money easily through the internet, without having to trust third parties.

• 第三方无法阻止或控制你的交易。

• Third parties can't prevent or control your transactions.

• 避免垄断性中央银行的不公平货币政策,以及货币供应权力集中带来的其他风险。Bitcoin 系统货币供应的有限通胀,会按 CPU 算力在整个网络中均匀分配,而不是由银行精英垄断。

• Be safe from the unfair monetary policies of the monopolistic central banks and the other risks of centralized power over a money supply. The limited inflation of the bitcoin system's money supply is distributed evenly (by CPU power) throughout the network, not monopolized to a banking elite.

• 随着 Bitcoin 经济的增长超过通胀率,Bitcoin 的价值很可能上涨——把 Bitcoin 当作一种投资,今天就开始运行节点吧!

• Bitcoin's value is likely to increase as the growth of the bitcoin economy exceeds the inflation rate - consider bitcoin an investment and start running a node today!

7 到哪里获得比特币?

7 Where can I get bitcoins?

找到一个持有比特币的人,卖些东西给她——大型多人在线角色扮演游戏里的装备、IT 支持、修剪草坪的服务、美元,或者任何能与她交换的东西。你也可以运行一个 Bitcoin 网络节点,自己生成新比特币。

Find a bitcoin owner and sell her something - MMORPG equipement, IT support, lawn mowing, dollars or whatever you can trade with her. You can also generate new bitcoins for yourself by running a bitcoin network node.

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