在很多人还没闹明白NFT到底是什么的时候，关于炒NFT一夜财富自由的神话已经传开了。
The myth of firing NFT for one night's wealth freedom has spread at a time when many people have yet to figure out what NFT is.
2017年开始发行的像素风格图标CryptoPunks，一套有87种不同的属性，总共一万个，在发行时这些图标统统免费，现在想买一个起码得15万美元。一年前花250美元就能买到的“无聊猿”头像，现在可以轻轻松松卖到30万美元。
CryptoPunks, a set of 87 different attributes, 10,000 in total, were released free of charge and now wants to buy a minimum of $150,000. A year ago, $250 was spent on buying a boring ape head, and now it's easy to sell to $300,000.
2021年，孙宇晨花1050万美元买了一个CryptoPunk头像，我们很难不问一句“花大价钱买个小画片为哪般”
In 2021, Sun Woo spent $10.5 million on a CryptoPunk, and it's hard not to ask, "What's it like to buy a little picture?"
但NFT不是一个点石成金的童话世界，有人暴富，就有人亏掉裤子。2021年3月，加密货币企业家希纳·埃斯塔维（Sina Estavi）拍下了推特CEO杰克·多尔西2006年在推特发布的第一条推文，成交价290万美元。
But NFT is not a golden fairy tale world, with some rich people losing their pants. In March 2021, the crypto-money entrepreneur Sina Estavi took a photo of the first tweet released on Twitter in 2006 by CEO Jack Dorsi, at a price of $2.9 million.
就是这条推文，顶上写着“我开通推特啦”。现在咱们都看见了，四舍五入等于赚了290万美元哈
That's the tweet. It says on top, "I'm on Twitter." And now we all see, rounding is like $2.9 million.
今年4月份，埃斯塔维开始拍卖这个NFT，拍卖为期七天。他在推特上表示，他预期的成交价格是4800万美元以上，成交之后，他会把销售额的一半捐赠给慈善机构。
In April of this year, Estelle started auctioning the NFT for seven days. On Twitter, he said that he expected to pay more than $48 million, and that when he did, he would donate half of the sales to charities.
七天过去后，拍卖只收到了7个报价，报价最低是0.0019以太币，最高是0.09以太币。
Seven days after the auction, only seven quotations were received, the lowest being €0.019 and the highest being 0.09.
翻译成人话，最低6美元，最高280美元。是的，280美元，没有万。
Translating into the language, minimum $6, maximum $280. Yes, $280, not a million.
仅仅一年时间，这则NFT的价值就从曾经引人注目的天价缩水到了不足万分之一，对很多在NFT市场淘金的人来说，这不啻于兜头一盆冷水。
In just one year, the value of the NFT has shrunk to less than one in 10,000 from the high-profile daily prices, which, for many gold-grabbing people in the NFT market, is tantamount to a first wave of cold water.
所以，有人告诉我NFT到底是什么吗？
So, somebody tell me what the NFT is?
NFT，英文全称为Non-Fungible Token，意思就是非同质化代币。这个名字听起来很唬人，但其实和奥特曼集换卡是差不多的东西。
NFT, called Non-Fungible Token in English, means non-homogenous tokens. The name sounds preposterous, but it's similar to the Otman Trade Card.
NFT总是和比特币、以太坊等其他基于区块链技术的数字货币捆绑在一起，它们确实都用到了区块链技术来确权，但它们之间有显著的不同：不同在不可分割、不可替代、独一无二。
NFT is always tied together with other digital currencies based on block chain technology, such as Bitcoin, Etheria and others. They do use block chain technology to confirm power, but there are significant differences between them: differences are indivisible, irreplaceable and unique.
一个比特币就像一个蛋糕，可以继续分割成好几块小蛋糕进行交易，也可以跟别人交换，你拿到手的比特币跟之前的没有什么区别，0.1个比特币在任何人手里都是0.1个比特币。
A bitcoin is like a cake that can continue to be split into several pieces of cake and traded with others. The bitcoin you've got is no different from the one you've had before, and 0.1 bitcoins are 0.1 bitcoins in anybody's hand.
0.1个比特币可以，但没有0.1个NFT｜CryptoManiaks/Facebook
0.1 bitcoinscan, but not 0.1 NFTCryptoManiaks/Facebook
然而，每一个NFT都是独一无二的（就像你手里的塞罗奥特曼卡，和盖亚奥特曼卡不是同一张卡），它使用区块链技术来证明一个特定的、唯一的数字对象的真实性和所有权。它就像数字资产的身份证，或者是一份地契，它不是数字资产本身，但可以证明你是它的主人。它能够指向的数字资产形式不拘，可以是一张gif、一幅画，一个头像、一段视频，甚至是一段文字内容。
However, every NFT is unique (like the one in your hand, Cero Otmanca, and Guya Otmanca, not the same card), and it uses block chain technology to prove the authenticity and ownership of a particular, unique digital object. It is like a digital asset's identity card, or a land deed, which is not a digital asset per se, but it can prove that you are its owner. It can point to a digital asset in the form of a gif, a painting, a head, a video, or even a text.
能证明我的所有权，那又怎样呢？
I can prove my ownership. So what?
在网络时代，面对庞大的数字内容，人们面临一个难解的问题：在线数字信息的无限复制性。
In the network age, faced with huge digital content, people face an inexplicable problem: the unlimited reproduction of online digital information.
一份文件，一张图片，只要点点鼠标复制几下，就能获得一个和原版一模一样的副本。复制粘贴让所有权、原创性的概念模糊了。在以前的时代里，你大可以在家挂一张《蒙娜丽莎》的仿品，但所有人都认同只有卢浮宫里的那一幅才是原作，而在网络时代你制作了一张网图，别人通过复制粘贴就能获得很多份毫无区别的副本，你怎么能说这份是真的，那份是假的呢？
A document, a single picture, just a few copies of the mouse, can get a copy exactly the same as the original. The copying of the sticker obscures the concept of ownership, originality. In the old days, you could have put a copy of the Mona Lisa home, but everyone agreed that only the one in the Louvre was original, and you created a web map in the Internet age, where others could get a lot of copies without distinction by copying the past. How can you say that this is true and that it is not true?
只要九九八，高品质蒙娜丽莎海报带回家｜europosters.eu
Just 998, high quality Mona Lisa poster to bring home the europosters.eu
NFT的诞生就是为了解决这个问题：每一枚NFT都是独一无二的，只能有一个经过认证的所有者，尽管图片可以截图、复制传播，但“原作”永远在你这里。
NFT was born to solve the problem: each NFT is unique and has only one certified owner, and although the picture can be captured and reproduced, you always have the original.
一张重制版的“彩虹猫”gif，能在拍卖网站卖出56万美元。艺术家克里斯·托雷斯（ Chris Torres）在十多年前创造了一只用饼干做身体的猫，身后还拖着一道彩虹。在它诞生十周年之际，他放大了彩虹猫的尺寸并修复了背景瑕疵，制成独一无二的“数字收藏品”来售卖。
The artist Chris Torres created a cat with biscuits as a body more than a decade ago and dragged a rainbow behind it. On the tenth anniversary of its birth, he magnified the rainbow cat and repaired its background and made a unique “digital collection” for sale.
这个彩虹猫，被托雷斯卖了59万美元｜Chris Torres
The rainbow cat was sold by Torres for $590,000. Chris Torres.
在托雷斯看来，NFT给创作者提供了一种直接从作品中获利的方式。尽管大家都可以发彩虹猫的gif，但只有购入者真正拥有了它。
In Torres’ view, NFT offers the creator a way to profit directly from the work. Although everyone can send rainbow cats, only the purchaser actually owns it.
买不起56万美元的彩虹猫，也可以看看迷恋猫（CryptoKitties）。迷恋猫是个养猫游戏，每个玩家可以拥有虚拟猫咪，也可以购买、出售或者交换猫咪，有人就花了超过17万美元买只虚拟猫猫。
If you can't afford a $560,000 rainbow cat, you can also look at CryptoKittys. It's a cat-breeding game, where each player can own a virtual cat, buy, sell or exchange a cat, and someone spends over $170,000 on a virtual cat.
这只猫叫Dragon，买家为它花了17万美元。这些虚拟猫猫可以繁殖，一般而言第0代猫猫是最有价值的，但Dragon是第9代猫猫，很难理解为什么有人花了大价格买它，可能是可爱吧｜Cryptokitties.co
The cat's name is Dragon, and the buyer spends $170,000 on it. These virtual cats can breed. In general, 0-generation cats are the most valuable, but Dragon is the 9th-generation cat.
NFT出现之后，就会造成一种互联网世界的新现象：物权分离。也就是说，一个可以无限复制、传输的数字资产，所有人都可以使用、欣赏，或者说不花一分钱就能享受它的美学价值，但只有一个人可以真正拥有。这一点和放在免费博物馆里的作品其实挺像的，大家都能欣赏，但只有藏家可以拥有。
When NFT emerges, it creates a new phenomenon in the Internet world: the separation of property rights. That is, a digital asset that can be reproduced and transmitted indefinitely, and that everyone can use, appreciate, or enjoy its aesthetic value without spending a penny, but only one person can really own it.
2021年，NBA球星库里花18万美金买了一枚无聊猿头像，然后就把它换成了自己的推特头像。紧接着，他的众多粉丝们都跟风把自己的头像换成了库里的无聊猿。可以说，这个NFT的使用价值对于库里和粉丝都是一样的，区别在于库里花了18万，粉丝白嫖。
In 2021, the NBA pool bought a boring ape image for $180,000, and then replaced it with its own Twitter head. Immediately afterwards, many of his fans switched their heads to a boring ape in the bank. The value of the NFT is, to say the least, the same for the bank as for fans.
看看库里花18万买的猴子头像
Look at the monkey head in the library for $180,000.
那库里是不是大冤种？只能说见仁见智。
Then is it a sin in Courage? All you can say is that you can't believe it.
我们的好朋友@地下天鹅绒老师认为库里牛逼
Our best friend, Mr. Underground velvet, thinks Curry's a pussy.
到底是谁那么有钱买NFT啊？
Who's so rich to buy NFT?
一边是NFT令人瞠目结舌的价格，一边是它们颇为抽象的本质，这种矛盾让很多人没办法理解：合着这些人，花了我一辈子都赚不到的钱，只是买了个名头呗？
On the one hand is the price of the NFT, and on the other is its abstract nature, a paradox that many people cannot understand: spending their lives with these people, spending money that I can't make my whole life, just buying a name?
可能真的是这样。
Maybe that's true.
很多NFT买家本身就是百万富翁，尤其是通过加密货币的早期投资致富的富翁，挥金如土购买NFT，除了投机赚钱之外，还是一种小圈子里的身份象征。在生活里人们通过佩戴限量款奢侈品来炫耀，在线上，人们通过NFT来武装自己的虚拟形象，展示自己的财富。对于另一些人来说，自己重金购入艺术作品自己欣赏是一方面，让所有人都知道自己买下了一个风头上的昂贵作品也很重要。
Many NFT buyers are millionaires in their own right, especially through early investment in encrypted money, spending money to buy NFTs, which, in addition to speculation, is a symbol of identity in a small circle. In life, people show off by wearing limited luxury items, and online, people arm their own virtual image with NFT to show their wealth.
举个最简单的例子，当了大冤种之后，大家现在都认识埃斯塔维了。
To give the simplest example, after the great injustice, we all know Estavey now.
还是我们的好朋友@地下天鹅绒老师说的
That's what our best friend, Mr. Underground velvet, said.
但这种炫耀也并非全无意义。炫耀是对能量100%的浪费，也是创造社会纽带、促进财富流动、使文明更丰富的催化剂。NFT是一种基本技术，是现有最好的数字资产确权手段，尽管现在只是被用来做点小头像，但就像互联网和云技术一样，未来NFT可能更好地保护创作者权益，也可能促成更多现在难以想象的新应用。
It is a waste of 100% of energy, and it is a catalyst for creating social bonds, facilitating the flow of wealth, and enriching civilization. NFT is a basic technology, the best digital asset tool available, and although it is now being used only to make small images, as is the case with the Internet and cloud technology, the future NFT may better protect the rights of creators and may lead to new applications that are now unimaginable.
NFT已经在走向传统艺术行业，也在吸引越来越多的艺术家把作品交易搬到区块链上。
NFT is already moving towards the traditional arts industry and is also attracting an increasing number of artists to move their works into the chain of blocks.
2021年3月11日，创作者毕普尔（Beeple）卖出了一张名叫《The First 5000 Days》的拼贴画，价格高达6900万美元。这是一个持续了5000天，近14年的长期项目，从2007年5月1日开始，毕普尔每天都画一幅画，有些粗糙、有些精致、有些很有实验性。5000天后，他把全部的作品拼贴在一起，铸成了这幅大作。同时，这也是佳士得拍卖行首件以NFT形式拍卖的艺术品。
On March 11, 2021, the creator Beeple sold a collage called The First 5000 Days, at a price of $69 million. It was a long-term project that lasted 5,000 days, almost 14 years, starting on May 1, 2007, when Bishop drew a painting every day, some rough, some sophisticated and some experimental. Five thousand days later, he put the whole piece together and made it a big one. At the same time, it was the first piece of art to be auctioned in the form of NFT.
《The First 5000 Days》，69000000美元诶！｜Beeple
The First 5000 Days, $69 million!
NFT被艺术家青睐，正是因为它解决了版权保护的问题。对于作者来说，NFT正是他们所需要的不能被篡改的版权声明，也就是确权，哪怕盗版再猖獗，也能为原版的保值提供最可靠的证明。
NFT is favoured by artists because it solves the issue of copyright protection. For authors, NFT is exactly the copyright statement they need that cannot be tampered with, that is, the right of certainty, even if piracy is rampant, to provide the most reliable proof of the preservation of the original version.
不过NFT也并非无懈可击，尽管区块链技术保证了密钥没有被破解的可能，但黑客还可能通过钓鱼链接让用户泄露信息。
NFT, however, is not impeccable, and although block chain technology ensures that keys are unbreakable, hackers may also allow users to divulge information through fishing links.
在今年愚人节当天，周杰伦发文称自己的NFT被盗，并强调这不是玩笑。被盗之后，他的无聊猿头像已经遭到多次转手，价值超过300万人民币。也有黑客入侵无聊猿的官方ins账户后用该账户发布网络钓鱼链接，这个链接会将NFT从用户的加密钱包中转移出来，黑客以此窃取了数百万美元的NFT。
On this year’s Fool’s Day, Jayon wrote that his NFT had been stolen and stressed that it was not a joke. After the theft, his boring ape head had been turned around several times, worth more than 3 million yuan. There were hackers who had invaded the official Ins account of the bored ape and used it to publish a web-fishing link, which would remove NFT from the user’s encrypted wallet, whereby hackers stole millions of dollars of NFT.
周杰伦被盗的猴子长这样
That's what happened to the monkey who was stolen from Jay.
这样的黑客盗窃事件一直在陆续发生，从最大的NFT交易平台OpenSea，到NFT数字艺术品在线拍卖平台Nifty Gateway。而且鉴于NFT基于区块链的性质，一旦被盗，受影响的用户就不可能再把失窃的NFT找回来了。
Such hacker thefts have been occurring from the largest NFT trading platform, OpenSea, to the NFT digital art online auction platform, Nifty Gateway. And given the NFT’s block chain-based nature, it is impossible for the affected users to recover the stolen NFT once stolen.
NFT世界的神话和寓言还会继续，而我们都是这个方兴未艾的新技术的见证人。
The myths and fables of the NFT world will continue, and we are all witnesses to this new and inexplicable technology.
参考文献
References
[1]Jack Dorsey's '$2.9M' NFT Tweet Auction Brings Top Bid of $280
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/jack-dorseys-2-9m-nft-tweet-auctioned-the-top-bid-280/
[2]‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/13/jack-dorseys-first-tweet-nft-went-on-sale-for-48m-it-ended-with-a-top-bid-of-just-280/
[3]Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/22/22344937/jack-dorsey-nft-sold-first-tweet-ethereum-cryptocurrency-twitter
[4]什么是NFT，它们是如何工作的？
[4] What is NFT, how do they work?
http://www.ftchinese.com/interactive/54969?exclusive
作者：翻翻、小毛巾
Author: Flipped, little towels
编辑：翻翻
Edit: Flip
审稿：地下天鹅绒
Script: Underground velvet
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