I heard about bitcoin in a couple of places.

我在很多地方都聽到比特幣。

I thought it was something really interesting.

我想這概念真是有趣。

I started getting into the community more and more.

我開始越來越投入密碼貨幣社群。

I co-founded Bitcoin Magazine which was this, kind of, online site and eventually a print magazine that talked about bitcoin-related technical, social, economic, whatever topics.

我是比特幣雜誌的共同創辦人，一開始只是個網站，後來變成一本涵蓋比特幣技術、社會、經濟等主題的雜誌。

And I did a lot of bitcoin-related things for about two years.

大概有兩年的時間，我做了很多與比特幣相關的事情。

Eventually dropped out of university to join the space full-time.

最後輟學，全職投入這個領域。

And soon after that I started to realize that there were a lot more interesting things that you could do with blockchains than just a single peer-to-peer currency.

之後我很快地了解到區塊鏈能幫你做到更多有趣的事情，不只侷限在「點對點」電子現金。

And this was something a lot of other people were starting to recognize at the same time.

這也是當時許多人開始體認到的一點。

I came up with the idea behind Ethereum.

我發想出以太坊的運作靈感。

This idea of a blockchain with a built-in programming language as, kind of, what I thought was the simplest and kind of, most logical way to actually build a platform that can be used for many more kinds of applications.

這種內建程式語言的區塊鏈是我認為最直接簡單、最合邏輯的方式，來打造一處有更多種應用的平台。

What was the biggest issue with bitcoin that you were trying to fix with Ethereum?

你創建以太坊最想修正比特幣的哪一項問題？

Just too limited functionality.

比特幣的功能有太多侷限了。

So like, think of the difference between something like a pocket calculator and a smartphone, where a pocket calculator does one thing and it does one thing well, but really people want to do all these other things.

比如想想看一台放在口袋的計算機，還有一台智慧型手機的差異；計算機或許能好好做到一項任務，但實際上人們希望它有更多用途。

And if you have a smartphone, then on the smartphone, you have a pocket calculator as an app.

如果你手上拿的是智慧型手機，就自然會有一個計算機 app。

You have playing music as an app.

有音樂播放器 app。

You have a web browser as an app and pretty much everything else.

網路瀏覽器 app，幾乎每一項應用都有。

So basically taking that same kind of idea of increasing the power of the system by making it more general purpose and applying it to blockchains.

基本上以太坊的想法也是一樣的：賦予更廣泛的用途，提高系統運作能力，再應用於區塊鏈。