we have the ability to create technologies that are decentralized,

我們具備創造去中心化科技的能力

removing middlemen

此種科技可排除中介者

and allowing users to interact with each other directly through a global network.

並讓使用者彼此間得以透過全球網路直接交流

Decentralized applications have been becoming more and more important in the past 10 years

在過去十年裡，去中心化應用的重要性不停在增加中

and have the benefits of massively reducing costs and barriers to entry,

它具有大幅降低成本和減少進入障礙的優勢

removing single points of failure,

它可以排除單一節點失誤（風險分散，資料不會集中在同一中心點）

preventing censorship,

省略額外審查制度

and ensuring transparency and trust between all the parties involved in an interaction.

並確保參與的每一方之間的互動透明度和信任

BitTorrent, a file sharing network developed in the early 2000s,

「位元洪流」是在 2000 年初期發展的檔案分享網絡

is arguably the first decentralized application to have been created.

可能是目前來說，第一個創造出來的去中心化應用

BitTorrent allows anyone to share any kind of file with anyone else in the world,

「位元洪流」讓任何人都可以和世界上的其他人分享任何一種的檔案

allowing people to distribute the content quickly and easily

它讓人們散佈內容更為快速簡便

even if they do not have the resources to pay for their own website or server.

即便他們沒有資源可以負擔成立自己的網站或伺服器

Five years later, Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the idea of a blockchain,

五年之後，中本聰提出區塊練的想法

a sort of distributed database,

它是一種分散式資料庫

and used it to build Bitcoin,

並用來發展比特幣

the world's first decentralized currency.

也就是世界上第一種去中心化貨幣

Decentralized currencies like Bitcoin

像比特幣這樣的去中心化貨幣

allow people to send money instantly anywhere around the world

讓人們可以立即將錢匯到世界上任一處

with no regard for national borders

而不用擔心國界的問題

with negligible fees.

並且只要一點點費用

Bitcoin is increasingly being used there for international remittances,

比特幣的使用持續增加，運用在國際匯款、

micropayments,

微型支付、

and commerce online.

和電子商務上

Decentralized applications for finance,

去中心化應用在金融

cloud computing,

雲端運算

messaging,

資訊

and distributed governance are soon to come.

和分散式監管上的實施指日可待

Ethereum is a platform that is specifically designed

以太坊是經過專門設計的平台，

for people to build these kinds of decentralized applications

它讓人們可以發展這類去中心化的應用

or "dapps" for short.

簡稱為「dapps」

The Ethereum client, which we are calling the Etherbrowser,

以太坊的客戶端，我們稱之為以太坊使用者

will include the ability

以太坊具有

in peer-to-peer network for sending messages

用戶對用戶的網絡寄發訊息功能

and a generalized blockchain with a built-in programming language,

和內建程式化語言的大眾區塊鏈技術

allowing people to use the blockchain

讓人們可以將區塊鏈技術

for any kind of decentralized application that they want to create.

運用在各種他們想要的去中心化應用上

Ethereum can be used to build financial applications

以太坊可用在發展金融應用

that are fully trustworthy and transparent

使金融應用值得信賴和透明化

because they run on the blockchain.

因為這些應用是在區塊鏈上運作

Online cryptographically secure system is for managing property and contracts,

線上加密安全系統是用來做資產和合約的管理

social networking and messaging systems

社群網絡和訊息系統

that allow users to maintain control of their own data,

則是讓使用者保有對自己資料的控制權

systems for trading underutilized computational resources

未充分利用的計算資源的交易系統

like CPU time and hard drive space,

像是 CPU 時間和硬碟空間

and eventually tools for online voting and distributed governance.

還有線上投票和分散式治理的工具

And the most exciting applications of Ethereum

以太坊最令人感到興奮的應用

are probably the ones that we have not even thought of.

大概就是我們還沒想到的那些

As with all new platforms for innovation

所有創新的新平台

like the protocols that underlie the internet itself,

例如協定對網路的影響

it is not always easy to predict

並不總是可以輕易得預測到

what they're going to be used for.

它們可以運用在什麼地方

Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the modern internet as a whole

整體看來，Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram 和現代網路

are all a result of early developments in the world wide web

都是全球資訊網早期發展的產物

and Javascript, the programming language of the World Wide Web from the 1990s.

也是 1990年代全球資訊網的程式語言 Javascript 的產物

Similarly by providing a universal programmable blockchain

同樣提供了可進行程式設計且普遍通用的區塊鏈

and packaging it up into a client that anyone can use,

並針對客戶去設計包裝成每個人都可以使用模式

the Ethereum project hopes to do the same for finance,

以太坊計劃期望在金融方面達到相同成績

peer-to-peer commerce,

還有在用戶對用戶的交易

distributed governance, and human collaboration as a whole.

分散式治理和人與人間的連結上

Now the question is:

現在的問題點是

what will you build on top of the Ethereum?

你會如何運用以太坊？