比特幣需要美國

大約三年前，我在《紐約時報》上寫道，比特幣可以拯救脫軌的美國。

Three years ago, I began arguing in the New York Times that America needed Bitcoin. Now, the time is ripe for elite technologists and everyday citizens to understand that Bitcoin needs America.

三年前，我開始在《紐約時報》上爭論美國需要比特幣。現在，精英技術專家和普通公民了解比特幣需要美國的時機已經成熟。

I called then – and I’ve been calling ever since – for states “to become broad legal sanctuaries” for digital rights. “Americans need Bitcoin and the like in order to take back their destinies in the digital world instead of entrusting it to more private or public sector overlords.”

我當時呼籲——從那時起我就一直呼籲——要求各州「成為數位權利的廣泛法律庇護所」。 “美國人需要比特幣等來奪回他們在數位世界的命運，而不是將其託付給更多的私營或公共部門霸主。”

Vindication for this call to action has been slow. But thanks to Donald Trump, this week, it’s here. The former president’s stubborn resistance to the Biden regime’s lawfare has inspired a growing share of leading technologists to come out publicly as Trump supporters.

這一號召性用語的辯護進展緩慢。但多虧了唐納德·特朗普，本週它就來了。這位前總統對拜登政權法律的頑固抵制激勵了越來越多的領先技術專家公開表明自己是川普的支持者。

Had Trump thrown in the towel, those techies would likely have resigned themselves to four more years of the Biden borg’s woke war on the digital rights implicit in our First, Second, and Fourth Amendments: free speech, free association, the keeping and bearing of basic defensive tools, and freedom from warrantless surveillance and seizure.

如果川普認輸，這些技術人員很可能會接受拜登博格對我們第一、第二和第四修正案中隱含的數位權利的四年的覺醒戰爭：言論自由、結社自由、保留和承擔基本的防禦工具，以及免受未經授權的監視和扣押的自由。

That’s why Bitcoin is the linchpin of the tech-Trump nexus. While most cutting-edge technologies, like AI, remain far from ordinary Americans’ reach and understanding, Bitcoin is fundamentally different. It’s ready, right now, for regular people to use – not just collect in a Wall Street-approved and controlled account – as a medium of exchange, one free from control by overseers hostile to our way of life, our constitutional form of government, and even our humanity itself.

這就是為什麼比特幣是科技與川普關係的關鍵。雖然人工智慧等大多數尖端技術距離普通美國人的接觸和理解還很遠，但比特幣卻有著根本的不同。它現在已經準備好供普通人使用——而不僅僅是在華爾街批准和控制的帳戶中收集——作為一種交換媒介，一種不受對我們的生活方式、我們的憲法形式的政府懷有敵意的監督者所控制的媒介，甚至我們的人性本身。

As Coinbase cofounder and CEO Brian Armstrong posted this week on X, “Bitcoin is an important check and balance on inflation and deficit spending. It may extend the American experiment, and western civilization along with it. Owning Bitcoin is pro-America.”

正如 Coinbase 聯合創始人兼執行長 Brian Armstrong 本週在 X 上發布的那樣，「比特幣是通膨和赤字支出的重要製衡工具。它可能會擴展美國的實驗，並隨之擴展西方文明。擁有比特幣是親美國的。

Bitcoin is like nothing else in tech or in politics – a unique weapon we can wield together to bring America back from the brink. And with Trump’s embrace of it, technologists unwilling to join the Biden borg are ready to hug Trump back.

比特幣與科技或政治領域的任何其他東西都不同——它是我們可以共同使用的獨特武器，可以將美國從崩潰的邊緣拉回來。隨著川普的擁抱，不願加入拜登博格的技術人員也準備好擁抱川普。

Now is the time for the next, crucial step: getting everyday people involved by the multimillions. The public needs to hear from strong pro-Trump tech leaders that Bitcoin isn’t about getting rich quick off of dollar-denominated speculation; it’s about reclaiming our country’s destiny from control by a woke supercomputer. Buying Bitcoin is great, but it isn’t enough. Since the Founding, Americans have agreed that real wealth is useful – and that honest use toward healthy ends generates true wealth. That’s why millions and millions of Americans need to be using Bitcoin as it was designed: to bend our vast computational resources to serve what’s best and most sacred about us and our lives, not collectivist ideologies or globalist fever dreams.

現在是採取下一個關鍵步驟的時候了：讓數百萬人參與其中。大眾需要聽到強而有力的支持川普的科技領導人的聲音：比特幣並不是為了透過以美元計價的投機來快速致富；而是為了讓人們從美元計價的投機中快速致富。這是關於將我們國家的命運從喚醒的超級電腦的控制中奪回。購買比特幣固然很棒，但這還不夠。自建國以來，美國人就一致認為，真正的財富是有用的，並且為了健康的目的而誠實地使用才能產生真正的財富。這就是為什麼數以百萬計的美國人需要按照其設計初衷來使用比特幣：利用我們龐大的計算資源來服務我們和我們的生活中最好、最神聖的事物，而不是集體主義意識形態或全球主義狂熱夢想。