据英国《每日电讯》和《金融时报》近日报道，英国比特币交易所EXMO的CEO勒纳（Pavel Lerner）于12月26日离开乌克兰首都基辅的办公室后遭遇绑架，绑匪在收到价值100多万美元的比特币后，于28日将勒纳释放。
According to the United Kingdom Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times, recently, Pavel Lerner of the British Bitcoin Exchange EXMO was kidnapped after leaving his office in Kiev, Ukraine, on 26 December, and the kidnappers released Lena on 28 December after receiving more than $1 million worth of bitcoins.
但目前尚不清楚是赎金究竟是由谁所支付的，乌克兰警方正在对此案进行调查。乌内政部长顾问格拉斯申科（Anton Gerashchenko）将此事定性为一起“敲诈勒索比特币”的事件。
However, it is not clear who paid the ransom, and the Ukrainian police are investigating the case. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the U.S. Interior Minister, characterized the matter as “the extortion of bitcoin.”
据公开资料显示，勒纳现年40岁，是一位俄罗斯公民，除了担任EXMO的CEO，他还在乌克兰开设了很多与数字货币挖矿和区块链技术相关的初创公司。
According to public information, Lena, aged 40, is a Russian citizen and, in addition to being an EXMO CEO, has opened a number of start-up companies in Ukraine related to digital money mining and block chain technology.
Pavel Lerner
据EXMO官网显示，该平台共有90多万名用户，在勒纳遭绑期间，EXMO对外宣称其业务照常运行，所有用户的资金绝对安全；但在28日，也就是勒纳被释放当天，EXMO在Twitter上称，其遭到了一次DDoS（分布式拒绝服务）攻击，意图破坏平台交易。
According to the EXMO network, there were more than 900,000 users of the platform, and during the captivity of Lena, EXMO declared that its operations were running as usual and that the funds of all users were absolutely safe; however, on 28th, the day Renah was released, EXMO on Twitter stated that it had been attacked by a DDoS (distributed denial of services) with the intention of disrupting the platform's trade.
绑架的事情就此告一段落，但国外网友对于此事的调侃却完全“停不下来”。
The abduction was brought to an end, but there was no “stop” from the tone of the foreign network.
穿件带比特币logo的衣服也算露富，小心招来杀身之祸：
"Strong" wears a suit with bitcoinlogo as well.
“在拿到比特币牌照之前，或者穿着印有比特币图案的衣服之前……嗯……有些事你得考虑清楚……”
“Before you get a bitcoin license, or before you wear a suit with a bitcoin pattern... um... there's something you need to think about...”
有人反驳，“靠衣服logo是不是比特币来判断这个人有没有钱完全不靠谱，就像你在街上犯下一堆重罪打劫一个西装笔挺的人，结果发现他只有300块的存款，是的没错，这就是金融民工。”
It has been argued that “it's not true whether the clothes logo is bitcoin to judge whether this man has any money, just as you committed a bunch of felonies in the street to rob a man in a suit penknife, and it turns out that he has only 300 dollars in savings, and that's right, that's the financial worker”.
这犯罪手法可能会招来诸多模仿者：
may attract many imitators:
“要求用比特币作为赎金的交易方法公布了之后，这家伙大概以后要每周消失一次了”
"This guy is about to disappear once a week after the demand for a bitcoin as a ransom method has been announced."
“这正是我所担心的——传统的绑架，绑匪难以完美脱身，就是因为收赎金总是需要具体的场所。而通过交易比特币的地址（取得赎金），绑匪就能轻松逃出生天”
“This is exactly what I'm worried about – traditional kidnappings, kidnappings are hard to get out of, because ransoms always need a specific place. By trading the address of Bitcoin, the kidnappers can easily escape the day of their birth.”
谁最明白比特币眼下有多火爆？当然是比特币平台和CEO本人：
Who knows best how hot bitcoin is right now?
“监守自盗”
"Obstruction of self-inflicted theft"
“是EXMO平台付的赎金吧，用老板被绑架为借口交付赎金，这个为网站被黑找的借口有创意”
"A ransom paid by the EXMO platform, a ransom paid under the pretext of the boss's abduction, a creative excuse for the blackout of the site."
怎么知道谁有比特币？在帖子下面留心观察：
How do you know who has bitcoin? Watch under the post:
“在帖子下面的评论中，能很明显看出谁是有比特币的人”
"In the comments below the post, it is clear who's got bitcoin."
比特币有什么用？从这件事来看，比特币很有用：
What's the use of bitcoin? From this point of view, bitcoin is very useful:
“黑子们看好，比特币还是有支付场景的”
"Beware, Blacky, there's still a payout in Bitcoin."
事实上，这并不是第一起以比特币支付赎金的绑架案，也不是比特币平台第一次被黑客攻击。
In fact, this was not the first kidnapping in which a ransom was paid in Bitcoin, nor was it the first time that the Bitcoin platform was hacked.
中国日报曾报道称，2015年9月，曾涉嫌诈骗及洗钱的香港商人、时任东方明珠石油公司主席的黄坤（又名黄煜坤）在台湾被绑架38天后，令人惊奇的是：完全没有科技知识背景的绑匪，要求他的家属以比特币方式支付7000万港元的赎金。
The Chinese daily had reported that 38 days after the abduction in Taiwan of Huang Qun (also known as Huang Quan), then Chairman of the Eastern Pearl Oil Company, a Hong Kong businessman suspected of fraud and money-laundering, it was surprising that the kidnappers, who had no scientific or technological background, demanded that his family pay a ransom of HK$ 70 million in bitcoin.
观察者网此前报道，今年5月，WannaCry病毒爆发，数十万计算机遭受感染，用户若想解锁，唯一渠道即是支付价值300美元比特币。
The network of observers previously reported that in May of this year, hundreds of thousands of computers were infected with the WannaCry virus, and that the only channel through which users wanted to unlock was to pay $300 in bitcoins.
另外，全球最大数字货币挖矿平台NiceHash的支付系统曾遭黑客入侵，致用户钱包里多达4736枚比特币被盗，总价值超过6200万美元。
In addition, the payment system of NiceHash, the world's largest digital mining platform, had been hacked and as many as 4736 bitcoins worth over $62 million had been stolen from the user's wallet.
12月19日，韩国比特币交易所Youbit因被黑客攻击宣告破产；3年前，同样宣称因“黑客攻击”破产的当时世界最大比特币交易平台Mt Gox，破产后投资者无处索赔，该公司前CEO却仍挥金如土。
On 19 December, the North Korean Bitcoin Exchange, Youbit, was declared bankrupt by hacking; three years ago, Mt Gox, the world's largest trading platform in Bitcoin, similarly declared bankrupt by “hacking”, had no place for investors to claim after bankruptcy, and the company's former CEO was still throwing gold at the ground.
今年9月4日，中国紧急叫停初始代币发行，随后有消息称监管已对国内比特币交易平台下定论：“全部关停，并于近期退出市场。”
On 4 September of this year, China called for an urgent halt to the issuance of the initial currency, followed by reports that regulation had concluded that the domestic Bitcoin trading platform was “all shut down and exited the market in the near future”.
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