内容来源：https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/933916/ai-powered-crypto-cannabis-vape

内容总结：

调查揭秘：号称“每吸一口都能赚比特币”的AI大麻烟枪，真相令人大跌眼镜

在4月20日这个全球大麻爱好者的“高假日”里，一则广告通过Slack悄然而至：一名男子吐出一团烟雾，上面赫然写着“每吸一口都能赚到比特币”。这款名为Gudtrip的产品宣称是一款“结合了优质大麻、区块链奖励和AI资产工具”的智能电子烟。经过数周的追踪、数十封邮件往来以及横跨两大洲的调查，记者最终发现，这款听起来像骗局的产品虽然真实存在，但其背后的运作方式远比想象中更离谱。

产品宣称：烟雾缭绕中“累积财富”

Gudtrip的官网充斥着科技流行语，号称是“首款主动式大麻设备”。其社交媒体账号——从X（原推特）到TikTok——反复强调“抽大麻，赚比特币”的概念。一条置顶推文写道：“抽大麻，赚比特币。”另一个帖子则问纽约人：“你们准备好抽根烟赚比特币了吗？”在Threads上，Gudtrip宣称“一次一口，累积财富”。这些宣传足够让记者相信这是一款真实存在的产品。

调查发现：实际运作与宣传南辕北辙

记者首先联系了加州大麻控制部门，该部门表示此前并不知悉该产品，已联系制造商了解详情。随后，记者委托在美国的同事前往加州奥克兰的NUG大麻药房，发现店内确实张贴着巨大的Gudtrip海报，承诺“持续的加密奖励”，并明确写道“抽得高，赚得比特币”。记者以67美元（含税）购得了这款产品。

然而，当记者联系上Gudtrip的首席技术官Rishi Kommuri时，事情出现了戏剧性转折。Kommuri在邮件中明确表示：“实际上，提供任何形式的按消费量给予财务激励都是违法的。”他解释说，比特币奖励与吸烟行为“脱钩”，是在激活设备时一次性预付给所有顾客的，与吸食时长、次数或频率无关。无论是否使用，每位顾客都会获得等值2至60美元的比特币奖励。公司将此定义为“标准消费者忠诚度机制——用比特币代替积分”。

核心矛盾：宣传视频与官方说法严重冲突

尽管公司声称比特币奖励与吸烟无关，但Gudtrip网站上的视频仍显示“每一次吸入都会实时同步手机，赚取比特币和Gudtrip积分”。当记者通过药房海报上的二维码下载配套应用时，应用预览截图却明确显示，奖励的是“Gudtrip积分”，而非加密货币。Kommuri对此解释称，“每次吸入积分”是公司其他智能硬件产品遗留的旧功能，现已不再提供；而海报上“持续的加密奖励”则是指未来才打算上线的“投资组合管理功能”。

实测验证：只拿到2美元，再无后续

为了验证产品真实功能，记者在遵守道德规范和法律团队建议的前提下，使用了一个废弃的加密账户和自动流体提取泵来模拟吸食。结果发现：将电子烟与应用连接后，确实获得了价值约2美元的比特币奖励。但在模拟了超过推荐的每日20秒吸食量后，再也没有获得任何额外比特币。要想再获得2至60美元的比特币，用户必须再花67美元购买一支新烟弹。

后续疑点：宣传物料悄然删除

就在记者与公司沟通期间，Gudtrip的多个社交媒体帖子被悄然删除，包括TikTok上“边抽边投”和Instagram上“每吸一口都能赚加密货币”等内容。通过网页存档工具可见，该公司在4月中旬修改了官网，将原本位于公司标志下方的“每吸一口都能赚加密货币”字样移除，如今该处已是空白。

结论：产品是真的，但“每吸一口赚比特币”是假的

经过这一系列调查，记者得出了最终结论：这款名为Gudtrip的AI大麻电子烟确实存在，但它并不能让用户“每吸一口都赚到比特币”。所谓的“比特币奖励”实质上是一次性的激活补贴，而非持续的吸烟奖励。公司方面承认，真正的“按吸奖励”功能已废弃，而承诺的AI加密投资工具也尚未实现。这不过是一场利用比特币和AI概念包装的营销把戏。

中文翻译：

加密货币大麻电子烟在4月20日那天找上了我，这可是全球大麻爱好者的狂欢节。它通过Slack传来，缩略图上一个男人吐出一团烟雾，上面印着“每一口都产出比特币”。它声称在为一种叫Gudtrip的设备打广告，我当时觉得这整件事都假得离谱。

我踏上了寻找那款能让你通过吸食获得比特币的AI大麻电子烟之旅
Gudtrip是互联网上有史以来最荒唐的AI、加密货币与大麻结合的产品。它真有可能是真的吗？

于是我踏上了寻找之路。经过数周搜索、数十封邮件往来，以及跨越几大洲的报道努力，我最终发现的东西，竟然比我想象的还要愚蠢。

我首先访问了Gudtrip的网站，这反而让这款电子烟看起来更像一场恶作剧。公司对产品的描述简直就是科技流行语大集合——这不只是一款能产出比特币的电子烟，而是“首款智能大麻设备”，融合了“优质大麻、区块链奖励和AI驱动的资产管理工具于一体”。这款所谓的设备不只有加密货币的热度加持：现在连人工智能也掺和进来了。

但我确实找到了一个证明产品真实的迹象。网站显示，其电子烟在加州有售，纽约则标注为“即将推出”。还有其背后的品牌名称：Puffpaw，一家自称“全球首款游戏化智能尼古丁电子烟”制造商的公司。不知怎的，它本应通过一种机制来激励戒烟，而这种机制就像Gudtrip一样，我完全搞不懂。

我转战Gudtrip的社交媒体账号，想搜刮更多信息。这款产品似乎是在三月份悄无声息地推出的。除此之外，大多数帖子都在重复强调，使用Gudtrip就能获得一些比特币。截至撰写本文时，Gudtrip在X平台上的置顶帖写道：“吸大麻，赚@比特币。”另一条帖子则问：“纽约客们，你们准备好吸一口大麻赚比特币了吗？”在Threads上，Gudtrip发帖说“一次一口，积累财富”，并解释说用户可以“从每一口中赚取比特币”。一段在TikTok上循环播放的视频将这款电子烟描述为“能让你回本的高潮”。

这些足以让我相信这款产品可能是真的。不知怎的，它看上去确实像一款真实的电子烟。但我丝毫无法理解它的工作原理。这电子烟是在挖比特币吗？我发邮件给Gudtrip想问个明白。

Gudtrip没有立刻回复我，于是我开始了进一步搜索。在领英上，我找到了一个“Reffo T.”，他的头衔是Gudtrip的CEO，该公司被描述为“一个将消费转变为链上赚取体验的优质大麻品牌”。他写了一篇博客，劝说药房备货这些电子烟。“产品自己会说话，”他写道。“比特币只是确保顾客记住他们是从哪儿得到的。”

大麻在加州是合法的，但产品受到监管。于是我问了加州大麻管制局，该机构负责该州商业大麻活动的许可和监管，询问它是否允许奖励消费的产品。该局公共事务副主管乔丹·特拉弗索写道：“我们之前并不熟悉Gudtrip产品，但已联系制造商以了解更多特性。”这下我们俩都一头雾水了。

到这时，我在伦敦能做到的已经到极限了。于是我向美国的同事们求助。Gudtrip声称在加州仅有两家门店有售。碰巧有位同事就在附近，可以顺道去药房看个究竟：这款电子烟到底存不存在？

走进奥克兰的NUG大麻药房，我们找到了答案：一张巨大的Gudtrip海报立刻向顾客承诺“持续获得加密货币奖励”。上面直白地写着：“享受高潮。获取比特币。”

显然，我们买下了一根。这款AI大麻电子烟税后价格为67美元。

也就在这时Gudtrip回复了——不知怎的，事情变得更模糊了。

整个“花钱请人吸大麻”的点子听起来挺吸引人，但似乎并不完全合法。（听起来也不太健康。一位对加密货币媒体DL News发言的研究人员说，鼓励日常使用存在着潜在危险，并且容易上瘾。）

结果发现Gudtrip也同意这一点。当我询问Gudtrip，这款电子烟到底做什么、奖励如何运作、以及公司如何回应“鼓励人们为大麻吸食加密货币”的批评时，Gudtrip的首席技术官里希·科穆里回复了几段编号的文字。其中最让我在意的一句是：“实际上，以任何形式按消费量提供经济激励都是违法的。”

等等，什么？

尽管Gudtrip的网站、X账号、Threads账号、TikTok账号以及NUG大麻药房里的巨幅海报都在承诺，科穆里现在却声称这款电子烟并不会因为吸食而给你比特币。

“比特币奖励与消费行为是脱钩的，”他写道。“奖励在激活时预先支付给每一位顾客，并不随抽吸时长、抽吸次数、日使用量或连续使用天数而增加。一位激活后从未使用该设备的顾客，与一位经常使用的顾客，获得的奖励相同，都是价值2到60美元等值的比特币。这是一种标准的消费者忠诚度机制——用比特币代替积分——而比特币根据美国证券交易委员会和商品期货交易委员会的分类属于大宗商品。我们确信这种结构符合我们运营所在每个市场的大麻法规。”

所以，实际上并不能“从每一口中赚取比特币”？公司网站上的一段视频宣称“每一次吸气都与手机同步，并实时赚取比特币和gudtrip积分”——但实际上并非如此？因为那样做是违法的？

Gudtrip的应用程序只会让情况更混乱。当一位同事通过奥克兰NUG药房海报上的二维码（通过TestFlight提供，而非苹果App Store）去下载它时，下载页面又承诺了别的东西。预览截图清楚地显示，该应用奖励电子烟的抽吸次数——不是用加密货币，而是用Gudtrip积分。Gudtrip积分是什么？能兑换什么？我们再次联系了Gudtrip以求澄清。

科穆里的第二封邮件有些急切地重申：“我们想确保清楚的主要一点是，Gudtrip的比特币奖励与激活挂钩，而非消费。”并且再次强调，你并不会因为抽吸而获得奖励！“Gudtrip积分是一个独立的、非货币性的应用内忠诚度系统。它们不是区块链奖励，也不能兑换现金、加密货币或大麻产品。”

矛盾之处越来越多。

科穆里对此有一个解释：“截图中显示的那次一吸一积分，是从我们其他智能硬件产品中遗留下来的旧功能……这已不再是当前提供的功能。”那么那些“持续的加密货币奖励”呢？嗯，那“指的是我们应用内未来的投资组合管理功能”。没错，这个应用还打算为你的加密货币投资组合提供规划服务。

所以，按次积分系统是个已废弃的遗留功能，而那个管理加密货币投资组合的智能AI实际上还不存在。除了显而易见的功能外，这玩意儿到底能干什么？

要弄清楚这款电子烟的实际功能，唯一的办法就是最终使用它一下。然而，我们的道德规范禁止我们个人持有加密货币，因此我们为比特币注册了一个临时账号。而且我们的法律团队不鼓励我们撰写有关合法性存疑的药物使用的文章，因此我们还订购了一个自动流体抽取泵来模拟抽吸电子烟。

将电子烟与Gudtrip应用连接后，我们获得了价值2美元的比特币奖励。到此为止，一切顺利。但随着我们继续“抽吸”，还会有更多奖励吗？

当另一位同事用泵向抽气器内注入“烟雾”时，应用内的弧形进度条逐渐填满了。积分被记录下来。他泵出的量已经超过了“推荐”的每日20秒“健康”吸烟时长，但除了最初那笔奖励外，并没有额外的比特币发放。应用内有专门的页面用来追踪当前奖励价值和抽吸历史记录，但要再获得2到60美元的比特币，你就需要购买一根新的、售价67美元的一次性电子烟。这就是他们套住你的方法。

与此同时，在我们与科穆里邮件往来期间，Gudtrip账号上的几条社交媒体帖子似乎消失了，不过不清楚是什么帖子被删除或为何被删。谷歌上被索引的帖子——点击后会显示“帖子不可用”——暗示其中一条是TikTok视频，使用了“边抽边投资”的字样；另一条是Instagram帖子，带有“每一口都赚加密货币”的表述。

查看Wayback Machine可以发现，Gudtrip也更改了其网站，以弱化吸烟与赚取加密货币之间的联系。四月中旬的一个快照显示，一张手机图片上打开了Gudtrip应用，公司标志下方醒目地写着“每一口都赚加密货币”。如今，那张带有应用的手机图片还在，但标志下方的区域已经空白。看起来公司确实在试图淡化最初的那个想法——抽吸得比特币，或者说，抱歉，是抽吸并得到比特币？

总之，经过这一切，我的问题有了答案：电子烟是真的。但事实上，你并不能每一口都得到比特币。

肖恩·霍利斯特补充报道。

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英文来源：

The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words “every hit delivers Bitcoin” emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded fake.
I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking
Gudtrip is the most ridiculous AI/crypto/weed product to ever touch the internet. Could it possibly be real?
So I went looking for it. What I eventually found, after weeks of searching, dozens of emails, and a reporting effort that spanned continents, was somehow even dumber than I’d imagined.
My first port of call was Gudtrip’s website, which only made the vape seem more like a prank. The company’s description of the product was tech buzzword bingo — this wasn’t just a vape that delivered Bitcoin, it was “the first agentic cannabis device” combining “premium cannabis, blockchain rewards, and AI-powered asset tools in one product.” This alleged device wasn’t just running on crypto hype: now AI was in the mix, too.
But I did find one sign that the product was real. The website said that its vapes were available in California, with New York also listed as “coming soon.” And there was a name for the brand behind it: Puffpaw, a company that presents itself as the maker of the “world’s first gamified smart vape” for nicotine. Somehow, it’s supposed to incentivize quitting nicotine through a mechanism that, like Gudtrip, I did not understand.
I went to Gudtrip’s social accounts to scour for more. The product appeared to have quietly launched in March. Otherwise, most posts reiterated that by using Gudtrip, you’d get some Bitcoin. Gudtrip’s pinned post on X as of this writing reads, “Smoke weed and earn @Bitcoin.” Another asks: “new yorkers are you ready to smoke a joint and earn bitcoin?” On Threads, Gudtrip posted about “building wealth one puff at a time” and explained that users can “Earn Bitcoin from every single puff.” A pulsating TikTok video described the vape as “the high that pays you back.”
It was enough to convince me the product might be real. This was, somehow, shaping up to be a real vape. But I did not understand in the slightest how it worked. Does the vape mine Bitcoin? I emailed Gudtrip to find out.
Gudtrip didn’t get back to me right away, so I started looking for more. On LinkedIn, I found one “Reffo T., listed as CEO of Gudtrip, “a premium cannabis brand turning consumption into an onchain earning experience.” He’d written a blog post coaxing dispensaries to stock these vapes. “The product sells itself,” he wrote. “The Bitcoin just makes sure customers remember where they got it.”
Weed is legal in California, but products are regulated. So I asked California’s Department of Cannabis Control, which licenses and regulates commercial cannabis activity in the state, whether it permits products that reward consumption. Jordan Traverso, the department’s deputy director of public affairs, said the agency hadn’t heard of Gudtrip’s AI crypto vape. “We were not previously familiar with the Gudtrip product but have reached out to the manufacturer to learn more about its features,” he wrote. That made two of us.
At this point, I’d reached the limit of what I could do from London. So I asked my US colleagues for help. Gudtrip claimed to be available in California in exactly two stores. It just so happened that a colleague was in the area to swing by the dispensary to see once and for all: Does this vape actually exist?
Upon walking in the door of the NUG Cannabis Dispensary in Oakland, we found the answer: A massive Gudtrip poster immediately promised customers “ongoing Crypto Rewards over time.” It read, plainly, “Get High. Get Bitcoin.”
Obviously, we bought it. The AI weed vape cost $67 after tax.
That was also when Gudtrip replied — and somehow, things became even more hazy.
The whole “paying people to smoke weed” thing sounded pretty catchy, but it didn’t sound entirely legal. (It doesn’t sound particularly healthy, either. Researchers speaking to crypto outlet DL News said encouraging daily use is potentially dangerous and habit-forming.)
It turns out Gudtrip agreed. When I asked Gudtrip what the vape actually does, how the rewards work, and how the company responds to criticism that it is encouraging people to consume cannabis for crypto, Gudtrip’s CTO, Rishi Kommuri, emailed back a few numbered paragraphs. The line that stood out to me most: “it is actually illegal to offer financial incentives per consumption type and so on in any way.”
Wait, what?
Despite what Gudtrip’s website, X account, Threads account, TikTok account, and a giant banner in NUG Cannabis Dispensary promised, Kommuri was now claiming that the vape did not give you Bitcoin for vaping.
“The Bitcoin reward is decoupled from consumption,” he wrote. “It is paid upfront on activation, to every customer, and does not scale with puff duration, session count, daily use, or streaks. A customer who never uses the device after activation receives the same reward 2$-60$ BTC equivalent reward as one who uses it regularly. This is a standard consumer loyalty mechanic — Bitcoin in place of points — and Bitcoin is a commodity under SEC and CFTC classification. We’re confident the structure complies with the cannabis regulations of every market we operate in.”
So, you don’t actually “Earn Bitcoin from every single puff”? A video on the company’s website states “every inhale syncs with your phone and earns bitcoin and gudtrip points in real time” — but it does not actually do that? Because that would be illegal?
Gudtrip’s app only made the situation more confusing. When a colleague went to download it via the QR-coded on the poster at NUG Oakland dispensary (it was offered via TestFlight, rather than Apple’s App Store), the download page promised something else. The preview screenshot clearly stated that the app rewards puffs on the vape — not with crypto, but with Gudtrip Points. What were Gudtrip Points? What could they be redeemed for? We reached out to Gudtrip again to clarify.
A second email from Kommuri reiterated, with some urgency: “The main point we want to make sure was clear is that Gudtrip’s Bitcoin reward is tied to activation, not consumption.” And again, you do not get rewarded for puffs! “Gudtrip Points are a separate, non-monetary loyalty system tracked in-app. They are not blockchain rewards and are not redeemable for cash, cryptocurrency, or cannabis products.”
The contradictions were piling up.
Kommuri had an explanation for this: “The per-puff points displayed in that screenshot was a legacy feature carried from our other smart hardware products … this is no longer a feature we currently provide.” And those “ongoing crypto rewards over time”? Well, that “refers to our future portfolio management feature in the app.” Yes, the app is also meant to offer investment planning for your crypto portfolio.
So, the per-puff points system is a defunct legacy feature, and the crypto portfolio-managing agentic AI doesn’t actually exist yet. What does this actually do again, besides the obvious?
The only way to find out what the vape actually did was to finally use it. However, our ethics policy forbids us from individually owning cryptocurrency, so we registered a throwaway account for the Bitcoin. And our legal team discourages us from writing about questionably legal drug usage, so we also ordered an auto fluid extractor pump to simulate puffing the vape.
Upon linking the vape to Gudtrip’s app, we were rewarded with $2 worth of Bitcoin. So far, so good. But would there be more as we vaped?
As another colleague pumped the vape into the extractor, the arced progress bar within the app filled up. Points were tabulated. He’d pumped beyond the 20 seconds of daily toking that was “recommended” for our “health,” but no Bitcoin was dispersed beyond the initial amount. There are separate, dedicated app pages to keep track of your current prize value and your toke-accumulation history, but to get another $2–$60 in Bitcoin, you would need to purchase a new, disposable $67 vape. That’s how they get you.
Meanwhile, as we emailed back and forth with Kommuri, several social media posts appeared to vanish from Gudtrip’s accounts, though it’s not clear what posts may have been removed or why. Indexed posts on Google — which, when clicked, say the posts aren’t available — suggest one was a TikTok video that used the wording “Invest while you puff,” while another was for an Instagram post with the phrase “Every hit earns crypto.”
A look at the Wayback Machine reveals that Gudtrip also changed its website to weaken the connection between smoking and earning crypto. A snapshot from mid-April shows an image of a phone with the Gudtrip app open, with “every hit earns crypto” prominently displayed beneath the company logo. Today, the phone with the app is still there, but the space underneath the logo is blank. It sure seems that the company is trying to fade out the original idea — toke to get Bitcoin, or sorry, toke and get Bitcoin?
So after all of that, my question was answered: The vape was real. But you will not, in fact, get Bitcoin with every hit.
Additional reporting by Sean Hollister.
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