Christopher Smith：新社群為何想要自己的貨幣？
Why a New Country Needs a New Currency
- Christopher Smith Quantus
影片
影片與逐字稿來源：Network State Podcast （CC BY）
場次摘要
Quantus 的 Christopher Smith 認為，新建立的社群若沿用既有貨幣，就仍受原有貨幣制度影響。他從美元的歷史與政府發行貨幣的誘因談起，將比特幣的稀缺性視為一種替代方案；接著介紹 Quantus 想加入的抗量子攻擊、隱私與易用特性。後者是他對產品的主張，並非已獲獨立驗證的安全結論。
值得記下的 5 件事
- 新社群若需要獨立協作與交換價值，可能也需要自己的貨幣。
- 主導貨幣會隨歷史更迭，美元的地位不能視為永久。
- 增發貨幣比作出艱難取捨容易，這種誘因可能侵蝕法幣購買力。
- 比特幣以 2,100 萬枚上限與開放參與，建立稀缺且難以任意排除使用者的貨幣。
- Quantus 結合抗量子攻擊、隱私與手機錢包，目標是讓數位現金容易使用。
逐字稿
開場
Hello 各位。聽說你想開新國家？那你大概需要新貨幣。Network State 的 motto 是「win and help win」。這是自由市場資本主義的精髓，人類自願合作解決共同問題的理想。Hello, everyone. So I heard you want to start a new country. Well, you're probably going to need a new currency. So the motto of Network State is “win and help win.” This is the essence of free market capitalism, the ideal of humans voluntarily collaborating to solve our collective problems.
這是文明的基礎。我喜歡說 money is love，love is a circle。金錢的概念被過度複雜化，其實很簡單：你為別人做事，你的數字上升。It's the foundation of civilization. I like to say money is love, and love is a circle. The idea of money has been dramatically overcomplicated. It's actually very simple. You do things for other people, and your number goes up.
別人為你做事，你的數字下降。這就是賺錢與花錢。當然是理想，不總是如此。有時人做了事沒得到 credit；有時人拿 credit 沒做事，那叫偷竊。Other people do things for you, and your number goes down. That's making and spending money. Of course, that's just an ideal. It doesn't always work like that. Sometimes people do things, and they don't get credit for it. And sometimes people take credit, and they didn't do anything. That's called stealing.
有一種特殊的偷竊叫偽造，直接造假幣再花。這是偷竊，因為你讓別人為你做事，你沒為他們做任何事。你打破了循環。There's a special kind of stealing called counterfeiting, where you just create fake money and then spend it. It's stealing because you're getting other people to do things for you, and you didn't do anything for them. You broke the circle.
貨幣從何而來
很遺憾。拉遠看，還有另一個問題：錢從哪來？好像我們最愛的美金一直都在、永遠都在。It's very sad. So let's zoom out, because there's another question here. Where does the money come from? It may seem like our favorite currency, the U.S. dollar, has always been here and will always be here forever and ever, amen.
但歷史上不 entirely 如此。回溯 1200 年代，不同貨幣曾主導又衰落被取代。有 florin、real，當然還有 dollar。但今日帝國是明日灰燼，美元大概不會永遠在。But actually, historically, it's not quite true. You can see, dating back to the 1200s, different currencies have become dominant and fallen away to be replaced by others. You've got the florin, the real, and, of course, the dollar. But today's empires are tomorrow's ashes. The dollar probably won't be here forever.
什麼會取代？印鈔解決問題或粉飾太平，往往比說不、做艱難決定容易，尤其選舉將至。What's going to replace it? You know, it's always going to be easy—easier to print money to solve problems or paper them over instead of saying no, making hard decisions, especially with an election coming up.
這就是通膨。如你所見，政府紙本相對黃金等較硬資產的價值隨時間可靠地下降。不只美元，適用所有法幣。但若文明不只幾百年？That's why we get inflation. As you can see here, the value of government paper over time reliably declines relative to harder assets like gold. It's not something specific to the dollar. It applies to all of the fiat currencies. But what if our civilizations didn't just last a few hundred years?
比特幣與 Quantus
若我們能做出持續數萬、甚至數十萬年的東西？會長怎樣？Bitcoin 的想法是：通膨其實不好。所以做稀缺貨幣。What if we could make something that lasted for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years? What would that look like? Well, the idea of Bitcoin was: inflation is bad, actually. And so it addressed this by making a scarce currency.
永遠只會創造 2100 萬枚。抗審查，難以當武器對付政治敵人。去中心化，Bitcoin 不在乎種族、宗教、國籍，甚至物種。Only 21 million coins will ever be created. It's censorship-resistant, so it's difficult to weaponize it against your political enemies. And it's decentralized, meaning Bitcoin doesn't care what race or religion, nationality, or even species you are.
有網路連線就能用。Quantus 再進一步：我們拿 Bitcoin 的優美理念，做成量子安全、私密、高度可用。想參與 freedom money，請今天下載行動錢包，找穿 Quantus T 恤的人，我們免費給你一些。If you have an internet connection, you can use it. Quantus takes this a step further. We took the beautiful ideas of Grandpa Bitcoin and made it quantum-secure. Private and highly usable. If you'd like to get involved with freedom money, please download our wallet, our mobile wallet today, and come talk to me or someone wearing a Quantus T-shirt, and we'll give you some for free.
也可在 MEXC.com 今天購買，無 KYC。謝謝。Also, you can buy it on MEXC.com today. No KYC. Thank you.
