重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

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Abstract

大二学生Martti Malmi,是中本聪第一个合作者,也是「All in」暴富传说的祖师爷。

原文作者:OneKey

2009 年,当时还在赫尔辛基理工大学读本科二年级的 Martti Malmi@marttimalmi 偶然浏览到 bitcoin.org,他给中本聪发邮件写道:「I would like to help with Bitcoin, if there’s something I can do(我想帮帮比特币,如果有什么事是我能做的话)。」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

有一说一,这真是一封挺草率的应聘邮件。但从此,命运的齿轮开始转动。

Martti Malmi,成为中本聪的第一个合作者,也是中本聪最信任的人,并从此被比特币改变了人生。币圈一直有大学生「All in」暴富的传说,那 Martti 必然是这个传说的祖师爷。

上个月, 他公开了与中本聪的电子邮件历史记录(https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/),让我们能以更多的视角去回顾比特币这波澜壮阔的历史。以下是 OneKey 的一些有趣发现。

比特币的早期运作,很像一个初创公司

就像当年大多数初创公司一样,他们抢注「bitcoin.org」域名,进行了大量关于产品特性、UI(用户界面)、网站等的讨论。

与当时的创业氛围很不同的是,工作都是邮件沟通,没有人见过老板「中本聪」。而如今加密行业远程工作已经普及,各大加密公司如币安、Paradigm,包括我们 OneKey 等都不同程度的采用了全球协作。

这是中本聪给大学生 Martti Malmi 布置的第一个远程工作任务——FAQ(常见问题解答)。中本聪说目前网站最需要的是一些写作内容,而他「不擅长写作,更擅长写代码」。原文翻译:「你可以考虑在 SourceForge 上搭建一个网站,目前那儿还没内容。如果你能准备一份 FAQ,我可以整理我之前在邮件和论坛里回答的内容给你,这样可以帮你获取所需的信息和灵感。」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

中本聪显然是个好老板,认真思考一个毛头大学生 Martti 的建议。这里中本聪像一个产品经理一样,在讨论比特币核心客户端「最小化托盘」和「开机启动」的特性。和当时很多的电脑程序一样,大家都在争夺用户使用,降低「用户流失率」。当然,比特币采用这个「心机」是为了更多人运行全节点,让早期的网络更安全。原文翻译:

「接下来我计划加入一个让比特币程序能在 Windows 上启动时自动运行,并且可以最小化到系统托盘的功能,这样就能显著增加在线节点的数量。

回想起来,你确实指出了一个当前极为关键的缺失功能,这个功能有潜力极大地增加节点数。如果没有自动启动,我们很难在用户初次尝试后留住他们。正如早期文件共享网络成功的秘诀,让程序自动运行并默认隐藏至系统托盘至关重要。虽然在我们的第一个版本(v 0.1.0)时,由于稳定性尚未得到保证,引入这一功能似乎不太恰当。但现在,随着程序已经变得足够稳定,这一功能成为了我们下一版必须添加的特性,以确保那些愿意尝试新版本的用户能有更好的体验并且愿意继续使用。」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

作为「创业者」,中本聪也不免和 Martti 吐槽那些「连代码都没有」确热度拉满的互联网创业项目。

在下面这篇邮件里,中本聪认为 SourceForge 的功能已经不能满足比特币论坛,需要换个论坛服务提供商。同时吐槽道:「我已经看到一些项目仅凭借论坛的讨论和规划就吸引了大量关注,尽管他们还没有开始编写任何代码。论坛上的讨论为项目提供了一个曝光平台,吸引了新用户,帮助解决支持问题,梳理出最需要的功能。(所以这个论坛很重要)」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

在初创公司的市场营销上,中本聪也并不完全是那种极端「极客」主义的人。他在这封邮件里有提到官网的宣传点「匿名」有点让人觉得太可疑,认为他们这个点可以是大家私底下知道就行。

原文翻译:「“匿名”这个词听起来有点可疑。我认为那些想要匿名的人还是能自己弄明白,无需我们大肆宣扬。我对 bitcoin.org 首页做了一些修改。更新翻译并不真的紧急。我倾向于在之后一段时间内继续编辑和修正,所以如果他们想更新,最好等等。」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

终究是 Martti 扛下了所有

在邮件沟通中,中本聪多次表示不想成为抛头露脸的人(尽管最终绝大多数人记住的,还是中本聪)。他鼓励 Martti 使用他的真实姓名和地址。要求 Martti 使用他自己的信用卡 / 身份证办服务器和银行账户。

假如你是 Martti,会不会被吓得「跑路」?

原文翻译:「我收到了一份 2000 美元的捐赠请求。但是我需要你的邮寄地址才能让他寄出。是的,他(捐赠者)希望保持匿名,所以也请保护信封来源的隐私。」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

在一些比特币宣传点的说辞上,中本聪还让 Martti 来代发言,同时提醒了一些营销风险。原文翻译:

「在 sourceforge 的 网站上,你能发表很多在我自己的网站上不能说的观点。然而,直白地提出『将比特币视为一种投资』这一点,我还是感到有些不妥。这种说法颇有风险,你最好去掉这一观点。如果用户自己有这样的想法当然无妨,但我们不能将其作为一个卖点来宣传。」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

把采访任务丢给新人 Martti,似乎也没什么不妥。原文翻译「有个博客作者想要撰写一篇关于比特币的文章,但我目前没空回答他的问题。如果我把他介绍给你,你愿意回答他的问题吗?这样我们可能会获得一个很好的链接资源。」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

老板中本聪突然消失一个月,还是 Martti 扛下了论坛运营。原文翻译:「过去一个半月我也忙于其他事务。我刚刚从四月初开始下载我的电子邮件。我大部分事情都处理好了,应该很快会回到比特币的工作中。很高兴看到你在我不在的时候处理了一些事情。祝贺你完成了你的第一笔比特币交易!」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

为 Martti 充值信仰

中本聪也预见到了如果比特币进入主流,一定会使用大量的能源。这或许在当时是很「炸裂」的观点:银行系统,比 PoW 更浪费资源。

「如果我们最终不得不在经济自由和节约资源之间做出选择,那真是太讽刺了。

遗憾的是,工作证明是我找到的唯一能够在没有可信任第三方的情况下让点对点电子现金系统工作的解决方案。即便我没有将其作为一种初步分配货币的辅助方式,工作证明对于协调网络和防止重复支付仍然至关重要。

如果它真的开始消耗大量能源,我认为这样的能源消耗仍然比它要替代的那些劳动力和资源消耗大的传统银行活动要少。其成本会比银行费用少很多,银行费用高达数十亿美元,用于支付所有的砖石建筑、摩天楼和无用的信用卡促销邮件。」

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

最后一封邮件

我们都知道, 2010 年 12 月 12 日,中本聪最后一次在比特币论坛上发帖讨论了 DoS(拒绝服务攻击)后,就停止了论坛活动。而这并不是中本聪最后一封邮件。

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

一个月后,在这篇中本聪发给 Gavin Andresen 的邮件(抄送给了 Martti)中,中本聪再次确认他不想参与任何的媒体公关内容与访谈。并且这里可以看到,中本聪十分担忧比特币增长过快,导致各种功能、攻击防御等需求无法被满足。同时他们对舆论的狂热感到担忧,当时出现了一些非官方的比特币代言人进行过度吹嘘,甚至宣传会取代 Paypal 甚至是欧元。他们希望在媒体中更强调比特币是一个前沿的测试,还没到大规模应用的程度。

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

再过一个月,这是中本聪发给 Martti 的最后一封邮件,安排了一些管理员密码的事宜,便又消失了,这一告别,就是 13 年,且大概率再也见不到了。

重读Martti的中本聪邮件:加密史第一个暴富的「大学生」故事

中本聪的消失充满了传奇色彩,但是在这些邮件里,我们看到了中本聪更亲近一面,似乎「神」并不是遥不可及,似乎他就在我们身边,仿佛人人都是中本聪。

Martti 的故事也并非镜花水月,新的一轮牛市浪潮,我们又将见证多少「大学生」传奇?

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