翻译时间：2017-11-29
NEO and Ethereum — which pill will you take? Sorry, couldn’t help myself. We care about this debate because we’re investors. From a developer’s perspective, functionality is the most important. There is no brand loyalty in blockchain yet. So if a platform can do something better than its competitors, it will win over developers. So which one does it better?
NEO和Ethereum-你会选择哪一个？对不起,不能帮助自己。我们关心这场辩论，因为我们是投资者。从开发人员的角度来看，功能是最重要的。区块链目前还没有品牌忠诚度。因此，如果一个平台能够比竞争对手做得更好，它就会赢得开发者的胜利。那么哪个更好呢?
This article is long because I have chewed through all the information I could find about NEO and Ethereum and digested it for you. There are lots of articles summarizing the “differences” between Ethereum and NEO, but they do the debate little justice. They skim over things, don’t explore them well, explore only one aspect, or aren’t holistic in their analysis and don’t explain why the differences even matter and what their relevance to the real world is. I was frustrated by the lack of a comprehensive article. This article is my response.
这篇文章很长，因为我已经仔细阅读了关于NEO和Ethereum的所有信息，并对这些文章进行了消化理解。有很多文章总结了以太坊和NEO之间的“区别”，但是他们的辩论很少公正。他们略过一些东西，只探索一个方面却不深入探索，或者在分析中不全面，也不解释为什么这些差异是重要的，以及它们与现实世界的关联是什么。我对缺乏一篇全面的文章感到沮丧。这篇文章是我的回应。
I will admit that I explore NEO more in-depth than Ethereum. This is because so much information is widely available for Ethereum. With NEO, there is much less. As such, I focus on explaining NEO and then comparing that explanation to Ethereum’s capability.
我承认我对NEO的探索比以太坊更深入。这是因为以太坊有如此多的信息可以获取到。而NEO，则少得多。因此，我专注于解释NEO，然后将这一解释与Ethereum的能力进行比较。
So bear with me, grab yourself an espresso and lock yourself in that room you “do work in.” This will be well worth your time. I also won’t blame you if you just read the TLDR — Too Lazy, Didn’t Read — under the articles.
所以，请跟我一起，拿起一杯浓咖啡，把自己锁在那个“在里面工作”的房间里。这事非常值得你花时间。如果你只是在文章下面读了TLDR（太懒了，没读过），我也不会怪你。
If Ethereum is Goliath, NEO is David. If Ethereum is Brad Pitt, NEO is Brad Pitt’s cousin, Zach Pitt—younger, better dressed, and more talented — but right now relegated to serving cocktails to Brad and his friends while he acts on the side. Ethereum did it first. It was revolutionary and exciting and took the crypto world by storm. Web 3.0. Today almost every ICO is built on Ethereum’s ERC20 token platform and Vitalik Buterin is one of our time’s greatest minds. Yet if we’ve learned anything from the fact that Alibaba is closing in on Amazon’s market cap and WeChat dominates China’s social media scene, it’s that China plays by their own rules. The Land of the Red Dragon uses their own technology, their own networks, and cares little for what the U.S. is doing. The question is, can NEO compete with Ethereum, and does it even need to?
如果说以太坊是歌王，那么NEO就是大卫。如果说Ethereum是布拉德·皮特，那么NEO是布拉德·皮特的堂兄弟，Zach Pitt-younger。他穿着更好，更有才华——但现在，他就在布拉德身边，为布拉德和他的朋友们提供鸡尾酒时。Ethereum做第一。这是一场革命性的、令人兴奋的革命，它席卷了整个世界。Web 3.0。今天，几乎每一个ICO都是在以太坊的ERC20标记平台上建造的，Vitalik Buterin是我们时代最伟大的人之一。然而，如果我们从阿里巴巴的市值和微信主导中国社交媒体的事实中吸取了教训的话，那就是中国按照自己的规则来玩。红龙的土地使用他们自己的技术，他们自己的网络，对美国正在做的事情一点也不关心。问题是，NEO能否与以太坊竞争，甚至还需要它吗?
Ultimately, NEO and Ethereum are aiming for similar roles in the crypto community. Both want to be platforms for the new internet: for DApps (Decentralized Applications), ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), and smart contracts.
最终，NEO和Ethereum希望在加密社区中也能有类似的角色。两者都想成为新互联网的平台:DApps(分散式应用)、ICOs(初次代币募集)和智能合同。
While both NEO and Ethereum have generalized blockchains that provide a toolbox for would be developers, their objectives differ. I would summarize each platform’s objectives as such:
尽管NEO和Ethereum都有通用的区块链，为开发者提供了一个工具箱，但他们的目标却不同。我将对每个平台的目标进行总结:
Ethereum’s goal is to create a platform for the development of DApps in order to create a “more globally accessible, more free, and more trustworthy Internet:” an internet 3.0.
Ethereum的目标是为DApps的开发创造一个平台，以创造一个“更全球化、更自由、更值得信赖的互联网”:互联网3.0。
NEO is a blockchain project “that utilizes blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets, to automate the management of digital assets using smart contracts, and to realize a “smart economy” with a distributed network.”
NEO是一个区块链项目，它“利用区块链技术和数字身份来数字化资产，利用智能合同实现数字资产的管理，并利用分布式网络实现一个“智能经济”。
That’s a mouthful. Let’s breakdown these objectives to fully understand the projects. It’s important to understand that both platforms share many of the same capabilities, but the distinction in their branded objectives is very important.
这是一句话。让我们分解这些目标，以充分了解项目。重要的是要理解这两个平台都有许多相同的功能，但是它们的品牌目标之间的区别是更为重要。
Ethereum: Ethereum’s goal is to be the platform for DApps and they are largely accomplishing this. They own the DApp market right now. Their roadmap is all about giving users and developers more control and more options in developing their applications.
以太坊:Ethereum的目标是成为DApps的平台，他们在很大程度上实现了这一目标。他们现在拥有DApp市场。他们的路线图是为用户和开发人员提供更多的控制和更多的选项来开发他们的应用程序。
NEO: NEO is working towards developing a product for the future. It not only rebranded from Antshares to NEO in June of 2017, but they refocused their marketing as well — with enormous success. Neo’s objective, while ultimately utilizing many of the same technologies as Ethereum, is to be the platform for a new smart economy.
NEO:NEO正致力于为未来开发一款产品。该公司不仅在2017年6月从Antshares重新更名为NEO，同时还将市场重点放在了营销上——取得了巨大成功。Neo的目标，尽管最终利用了许多与以太坊一样的技术，但它是一个新的智能经济的平台。
In short: Ethereum is developing in response to new demands. NEO is developing their platform in anticipation of future demands.
简而言之:Ethereum是为了满足新的需求而发展的。NEO正在开发自己的平台，以期待未来的需求。
What is a Smart Economy? 什么是智能经济
The biggest difference between NEO and Ethereum is NEO’s focus on a smart economy. If we want to fully understand NEO, we need to understand why this distinction is important.
NEO和Ethereum最大的不同是NEO对智能经济的关注。如果我们想要全面了解NEO，我们需要理解为什么这种区别很重要。
A smart economy will feature digitized physical assets. All of these newly digitized assets will have proof of ownership in the blockchain. These assets can be sold, traded, and leveraged through smart contracts. Their ownership can be protected and validated through the decentralized model of the blockchain. We’ve already seen iterations of this: from proposed supply chain overhaul to DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations — essentially decentralized companies without a leader). I offered some real world examples of this economy in this article. Now while Ethereum will likely support many of the same capabilities that NEO has, the distinction between Ethereum and NEO’s objectives is what we care about.
一个智能的经济体将会有数字化的实物资产。所有这些新数字化的资产都将拥有区块链的所有权证明。这些资产可以通过智能合约进行买卖、交易和杠杆化。他们的所有权可以通过区块链的分布式模型得到保护和验证。我们已经看到了这样的迭代:从提议的供应链改革到DAOs(分布式自治组织——基本上是去中心化的公司，没有领导者)。在本文中，我提供了一些真实世界的例子。虽然Ethereum很可能会支持NEO所拥有的许多功能，但Ethereum和NEO的目标之间的区别是我们所关心的。
The distinction is important because a smart economy will still be under a government and under governmental regulation. I don’t trust the government as much as your next libertarian; I’ve read 1984 too many times. But the fact remains that governments aren’t going anywhere. Thus, for a platform to service this “smart economy,” that platform needs to put specific thought and intention into how it will accommodate governmental regulation. So while Ethereum might offer the similar blockchain capabilities, the fact that NEO is developing FOR THIS PURPOSE is crucial.
这一区别很重要，因为智能的经济仍将处于政府和政府监管之下。我不信任政府，就像你的下一个自由主义者一样;我已经读了1984很多遍了。但事实是，政府不会去任何地方。因此，对于一个为“智能经济”服务的平台，该平台需要将具体的想法和意图投入到如何适应政府监管的方式中。因此，虽然Ethereum可能提供类似的区块链功能，但NEO正在为这一目的而开发的事实是至关重要的。
TLDR: A smart economy is in our future. To accommodate the needs of this smart economy, the platform will need to be specifically designed for this new economy.
TLDR:智能经济是我们的未来。为了适应这种智能经济的需要，这个平台将需要专门为这个新经济设计。
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