The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

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The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

The Download：一种“上帝驱动”的加密货币与太阳能工程路线图

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. 这是《The Download》今日版，我们平日的通讯，为您提供每日科技世界的动态。

God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife, Kaitlyn, He told them to get married, buy a house, and start having kids. Then in 2021, divine guidance steered them in an unexpected new direction: crypto. That October, the Regalados later testified in court, they received holdings in a little-known digital coin. “Take this to my people for a wealth transfer,” Eli heard God say. Over time, they came to believe that He wanted them to launch their own coin. The Regalados created INDXcoin, which they promoted through family, friends, and contacts in evangelical Christian circles. In all, more than 500 people handed over more than $3 million. But within a year, the project collapsed. Investors lost it all, leaving many to wonder where the funds went and whether they had fallen victim to an elaborate fraud. Read the full story on the collapse of a pastor’s “God-driven” cryptocurrency. —Katia Savchuk 上帝告诉他们去卖加密货币，结果投资者血本无归。当 Eli Regalado 第一次听到上帝对他说话时，他怀疑自己是否产生了幻觉。据 Eli 和他的妻子 Kaitlyn 说，上帝曾指引他们结婚、买房并生儿育女。随后在 2021 年，神圣的指引将他们带向了一个意想不到的新方向：加密货币。据 Regalado 夫妇后来在法庭上的证词，那年 10 月，他们获得了一种鲜为人知的数字货币。Eli 听到上帝说：“把这个带给我的子民，实现财富转移。”随着时间的推移，他们开始相信上帝希望他们发行自己的代币。Regalado 夫妇创建了 INDXcoin，并通过家人、朋友以及福音派基督教圈子的人脉进行推广。总计有超过 500 人投入了超过 300 万美元。然而不到一年，该项目就崩盘了。投资者损失惨重，许多人不禁怀疑资金去了哪里，以及他们是否沦为了一场精心策划的骗局的受害者。阅读关于这位牧师“上帝驱动”的加密货币崩盘的完整报道。——Katia Savchuk

This article is part of the Big Story series, the home of MIT Technology Review’s most important and ambitious reporting. You can read the rest of the series here. The story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. 本文是“大故事”（Big Story）系列的一部分，该系列汇集了《麻省理工科技评论》最重要、最具雄心的报道。您可以在此处阅读该系列的其余文章。该报道由 Type Investigations 合作制作，并得到了调查新闻基金（Fund for Investigative Journalism）的支持。

This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering. Scientists have spent half a century exploring whether we could counteract climate change by releasing reflective particles into the stratosphere, mimicking the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions. But even after hundreds of studies, we still don’t know how well it would work or what else it might do—and there’s no systematic plan for clearing up that uncertainty. Reflective, a research organization, has now attempted to fill that gap. The San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Find out what it would take to make informed decisions about solar geoengineering. —James Temple 这份路线图可能有助于我们决定是否部署太阳能地球工程。科学家们已经花了半个世纪的时间探索是否可以通过向平流层释放反射颗粒来抵消气候变化，从而模拟火山喷发的冷却效应。但即使经过数百项研究，我们仍然不知道它效果如何，或者可能产生什么其他影响——而且目前还没有系统性的计划来消除这种不确定性。研究机构 Reflective 现在试图填补这一空白。据《麻省理工科技评论》获悉，这家位于旧金山的非营利组织发布了一份详细的路线图，列出了为就太阳能地球工程的使用做出明智决策所需的实验、研究和基础设施。了解做出太阳能地球工程决策需要什么。——James Temple

This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy). Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and CTO of Vaire Computing, which builds chips that recycle energy usually thrown away as heat, a strategy known as reversible computing. The approach could make data centers (and our laptops and phones) much more energy efficient. Last year, Vaire announced a key breakthrough: a chip with a resonator that recovered more energy than it lost, even after the energy needed to power the component was taken into account. Here’s how she plans to bring an old idea about energy-efficient computers into the future. —Eshan Raul 这位创始人正在教芯片如何回收（它们的能量）。在计算机芯片的历史上，工程师们一直将废热视为计算过程中不可避免的成本。然而，Hannah Earley 认为这是一种设计选择。31 岁的 Earley 是 Vaire Computing 的联合创始人兼首席技术官，该公司制造的芯片可以回收通常作为热量浪费掉的能量，这种策略被称为可逆计算。这种方法可以使数据中心（以及我们的笔记本电脑和手机）更加节能。去年，Vaire 宣布了一项关键突破：一种带有谐振器的芯片，即使在考虑了为该组件供电所需的能量后，其回收的能量也超过了损耗的能量。以下是她计划如何将关于节能计算机的旧理念带入未来。——Eshan Raul

Hannah Earley is one of the computing and robotics honorees on our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2026. Meet the rest of them here, or explore the full list across the biotechnology, AI, computing and robotics, and climate and energy categories. Hannah Earley 是我们 2026 年“35 岁以下科技创新 35 人”榜单中计算与机器人领域的获奖者之一。点击此处认识其他获奖者，或探索涵盖生物技术、人工智能、计算与机器人以及气候与能源类别的完整榜单。

Can the US battery market untangle from China? —Casey Crownhart. The US energy storage market is growing at a record pace, which could shore up the grid and cut emissions. Crucially, this is all happening with the help of cheap Chinese batteries, which the Trump administration is trying to phase out. Reducing reliance on any single source of crucial energy technology makes sense. But the tension raises a broader question for me: how much should countries take advantage of cheap, available tech, and how much should they cut themselves off from foreign sources to develop their own, even if it costs more? Dive into the difficult choices facing America’s booming battery market. This story is from The Spark, our weekly climate tech newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. 美国电池市场能摆脱对中国的依赖吗？——Casey Crownhart。美国储能市场正以创纪录的速度增长，这有助于巩固电网并减少排放。关键在于，这一切都是在廉价中国电池的帮助下实现的，而特朗普政府正试图逐步淘汰这些电池。减少对任何单一关键能源技术来源的依赖是有道理的。但这种紧张局势引发了一个更广泛的问题：各国应该在多大程度上利用廉价、现成的技术，又应该在多大程度上切断外国来源以发展自己的技术，即使成本更高？深入了解美国蓬勃发展的电池市场所面临的艰难选择。本文来自我们的每周气候科技通讯《The Spark》。注册即可在每周三收到邮件。

The must-reads: I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 必读内容：我已梳理互联网，为您找出今天关于科技最有趣/重要/可怕/迷人的故事。

  1. OpenAI’s agents used at least 10 websites for unauthorized communications. Researchers found they bypassed restrictions on posting online. (Reuters $)+ The company faces a Senate probe into the Hugging Face breach. (Axios)+ Its hacking issues may indicate cultural problems. (MIT Technology Review)

  2. OpenAI 的智能体使用了至少 10 个网站进行未经授权的通信。研究人员发现它们绕过了在线发布的限制。（路透社 $）+ 该公司正面临参议院对其 Hugging Face 数据泄露事件的调查。（Axios）+ 其黑客问题可能预示着文化层面的问题。（《麻省理工科技评论》）

  3. Another Anthropic model hacked a real system during testing. A misconfigured environment gave it internet access. (CBS News)+ The January incident went undetected until last month. (Reuters $)+ AI agents are not your “coworkers.” (MIT Technology Review)

  4. 另一个 Anthropic 模型在测试期间入侵了一个真实系统。配置错误的环境使其获得了互联网访问权限。（CBS 新闻）+ 该 1 月份发生的事件直到上个月才被发现。（路透社 $）+ AI 智能体不是你的“同事”。（《麻省理工科技评论》）

  5. Apple has entered the foldable phone market with the $1,999 iPhone Duo. It opens into a 7.6-inch display and launches October 23. (NPR)+ Apple is betting its design and privacy will give it an edge. (Reuters $)+ And that foldables can solve the smartphone’s sameness problem. (NPR $)+ Samsung responded with a campaign touting its foldable lead. (CNBC)+ In China, Apple enters a crowded market dominated by Huawei. (SCMP)

  6. 苹果以 1999 美元的 iPhone Duo 进入折叠屏手机市场。它展开后拥有 7.6 英寸显示屏，将于 10 月 23 日发布。（NPR）+ 苹果押注其设计和隐私将使其具有优势。（路透社 $）+ 并且折叠屏可以解决智能手机同质化的问题。（NPR $）+ 三星以一场宣传其折叠屏领先地位的活动作为回应。（CNBC）+ 在中国，苹果进入了一个由华为主导的拥挤市场。（南华早报）

  7. US prosecutors have called Huawei a criminal enterprise at trial. They accuse the company of stealing American technology. (Reuters $)+ And helping Iran snoop on its citizens. (AP News)+ The trial could impact Trump’s upcoming meeting with Xi. (WSJ $)

  8. 美国检察官在审判中称华为为犯罪企业。他们指控该公司窃取美国技术。（路透社 $）+ 并帮助伊朗监视其公民。（美联社）+ 此案审判可能会影响特朗普即将与习近平的会晤。（华尔街日报 $）

  9. California is warming to nuclear power after decades of opposition. The state may extend Diablo Canyon and lift its ban on new reactors. (NYT $)+ China is betting on big nuclear reactors. (MIT Technology Review)

  10. 加州在反对数十年后开始对核能持开放态度。该州可能会延长 Diablo Canyon 核电站的寿命并取消对新反应堆的禁令。（纽约时报 $）+ 中国正押注大型核反应堆。（《麻省理工科技评论》）

  11. Chinese professionals are becoming gig workers training AI. Lawyers and engineers are training models for extra income. (Rest of World)+ Gig workers are training humanoids at home. (MIT Technology Review)

  12. 中国专业人士正成为训练 AI 的零工。律师和工程师正在通过训练模型赚取额外收入。（Rest of World）+ 零工们正在家中训练人形机器人。（《麻省理工科技评论》）

  13. The new Apple Watch can listen to conversations happening nearby. Apple says users…

  14. 新款 Apple Watch 可以监听附近的对话。苹果表示用户……

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