比特幣全力支持川普

前總統唐納德·川普於 2024 年 7 月 27 日星期六在田納西州納什維爾舉行的比特幣 2024 會議上發表講話。

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, July 27, 2024.

前總統唐納德·川普於 2024 年 7 月 27 日星期六在田納西州納什維爾舉行的比特幣 2024 會議上發表講話。

NASHVILLE, Tenn. —“If you don’t elect me,” Donald Trump told thousands of Bitcoiners at the annual Bitcoin conference on July 27, “I hate to tell you, you’re going to be crushed.”

田納西州納什維爾——7 月27 日，唐納德·川普在年度比特幣會議上對數千名比特幣愛好者說：「如果你們不選我，我不想告訴你們，你們就會被壓垮。

The ex-president and newly minted crypto supporter spoke at the national Bitcoin conference for nearly an hour to a rapt audience, toggling between stroking attendees’ egos (“high-IQ individuals!”) and his own (“because of me, [regulators] are leaving you alone. So please say, ‘Thank you, President Trump, thank you very much.’”) He hit his talking points (Bitcoin is a “miracle of humanity” that should not be stifled with regulation, and rampant inflation is a “stealth taxation” that is destroying the nation), and made election-year promises to unleash crypto’s profitability to even greater heights.

這位前總統和新晉加密貨幣支持者在全國比特幣會議上向全神貫注的觀眾發表了近一個小時的演講，在撫慰與會者的自我（“高智商個人！”）和他自己的自我（“因為我，[監管機構”）之間切換。 ] 讓你一個人呆著。所以請說，'謝謝你，特朗普總統，非常感謝你。'”）他說到了他的談話要點（比特幣是“人類的奇蹟”，不應該被監管和猖獗的通貨膨脹所扼殺。

Five years ago, while Trump was in the White House, he had declared himself “not a fan” of Bitcoin and crypto, tweeting that they “are not money,” with their value “highly volatile and based on thin air.” But in the past few months, he has gotten cozy with the crypto industry, a process a Bloomberg report suggests was kicked off by Trump’s enchantment with his own NFT series—digital assets featuring flattering, iconized pictures of himself. But whatever precipitated the relationship, Trump has undoubtedly benefited from the industry’s ample spending money. The new pro-crypto super PAC Fairshake has thus far raised more than $200 million, which it has mostly spent on negative ads against Democrats. Trump reportedly amassed a full $21 million at the Bitcoin conference itself, mostly through a “roundtable” meeting whose entry fee was $844,600 a pop with another $60,000 for a photo with the former president.

五年前，川普在白宮期間，他曾宣稱自己“不喜歡”比特幣和加密貨幣，並在推特上表示，它們“不是貨幣”，其價值“高度波動且憑空而來”。但在過去的幾個月裡，他對加密貨幣行業越來越熟悉，彭博社的一篇報道稱，這一過程是由川普對自己的NFT 系列（以他自己討人喜歡的標誌性照片為特色的數位資產）的著迷而開始的。但無論是什麼促成了這種關係，川普無疑受益於該行業充足的支出。新的支持加密貨幣的超級 PAC Fairshake 迄今為止已籌集了超過 2 億美元，其中大部分用於針對民主黨的負面廣告。據報道，川普在比特幣會議上籌集了整整 2,100 萬美元，主要是透過一場「圓桌」會議，其入場費為每次 844,600 美元，另外還有 6 萬美元用於與前總統合影。

With Trump delivering a keynote to the conference, it seemed that Bitcoin had completed a journey from the economic fringes into the middle of political life. Another presidential hopeful, Robert Kennedy Jr., was also a headliner, and 10 senators were in attendance. “All of us were told we were crazy for years,” T.J. Miller, the conference MC of Saturday’s events yelled, as he paced across the stage. “And now, fuck those guys!”

隨著川普在會議上發表主題演講，比特幣似乎已經完成了從經濟邊緣到政治生活中間的旅程。另一位總統候選人小羅伯特甘迺迪也是頭條新聞，共有 10 名參議員出席。 「多年來我們所有人都被告知我們瘋了，」週六活動的會議主持人 TJ Miller 在舞台上踱步時喊道。 “現在，操那些傢伙！”

Yet walking around at the Bitcoin conference gave a distinct picture of a crypto movement sitting awkwardly at a crossroads. The movement, on principle, rejects governments and banks but is also giddy at the arrival of politicians and BlackRock representatives. It fawns over well-heeled businessmen (as long as they’re pro-Bitcoin!) but is also brimming with libertarian nerds who arrived at the conference wearing as much orange (the color of Bitcoin’s logo) as they could find: from orange loafers up to their orange cowboy hats. One man wore a puffy physical representation of a Bitcoin on his torso, along with knee-high Elvis socks and a giant red hat that read “HAT GUY.” Another—a crypto influencer who excitedly told me, “They call me Loudmouth!”—was decked out in gold chains and rings, and had pictures of his own face, tongue out, embroidered onto his red-and-gold-sequined suit and sailor hat.

然而，在比特幣會議上走一圈，可以清楚地看到加密貨幣運動尷尬地站在十字路口。該運動原則上拒絕政府和銀行，但也對政客和貝萊德代表的到來感到興奮。它討好富有的商人（只要他們支持比特幣！），但也充滿了自由主義書呆子，他們穿著盡可能多的橙色（比特幣標誌的顏色）參加會議：橙色樂福鞋直到他們的橙色牛仔帽。一名男子的軀幹上穿著浮腫的比特幣實體模型，腳上穿著及膝的貓王襪子，戴著一頂寫著「HAT GUY」的巨大紅色帽子。另一位是一位加密貨幣影響者，他興奮地告訴我，「他們叫我勞德茅斯！」——戴著金鍊子和戒指，他自己的臉、伸出舌頭的照片繡在他的紅金亮片西裝上，水手帽。

Hard to miss were the many men wearing “Vote Trump. Free Ross Day One” T-shirts, thousands of which were given away at the conference. Ross Ulbricht, now 40 years old, is serving a life sentence for founding Silk Road in 2011, a Bitcoin-fueled black market where people traded crypto for drugs, some pornography, and occasionally—as Ulbricht himself did—assassination attempts. The majority male and overwhelmingly white and middle-aged participants wore many hats: cowboy hats, baseball caps—many MAGA caps among them but many more that read “Make Bitcoin Great Again.” At least a couple of men sported crumpled suits and Donald Trump wigs.

很難忽視的是許多穿著「投票川普」的男人。免費羅斯第一天」T 卹，會議期間贈送了數千件 T 卹。現年40 歲的羅斯·烏布利希(Ross Ulbricht) 因在2011 年創立絲綢之路(Silk Road) 而被判無期徒刑，絲綢之路是一個由比特幣推動的黑市，人們用加密貨幣交換毒品、一些色情作品，偶爾還會進行暗殺企圖（正如烏布利希本人所做的那樣）。大多數男性和絕大多數白人和中年參與者戴著很多帽子：牛仔帽、棒球帽——其中有很多 MAGA 帽子，但更多的帽子上寫著「讓比特幣再次偉大」。至少有幾個男人穿著皺巴巴的西裝，戴著唐納德·川普的假髮。

At booths packed into the conference’s Expo Hall one could buy packs of Bitcoin trading cards that teach kids “the fundamentals of sound money” or glow-in-the-dark “Essence of Bitcoin” art made by Jack and Susan, a couple who use 12,000 volts of electricity to burn what Susan explained were “lightening channels” in the shape of the Bitcoin logo and sparks into wooden wall art.

在會議展覽廳擠滿的攤位上，人們可以購買成套的比特幣交易卡，這些卡可以教孩子們“穩健貨幣的基礎知識”，也可以購買傑克和蘇珊夫婦製作的夜光“比特幣本質”藝術作品。

You could even purchase citizenship to Liberland, “the world’s freest country.” Colin, who showed me his own Liberland passport, explained that while he doesn’t live there himself, the territory was settled by about 30 people living in a house at the center of the island. The aspiring nation is being built on disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia. Liberland’s passports, Colin clarified, are “still not recognized,” so he uses his Canadian one

您甚至可以購買“世界上最自由的國家”利伯蘭的公民身份。科林向我展示了他自己的利伯蘭護照，他解釋說，雖然他本人並不住在那裡，但該地區大約有 30 個人住在島中心的一所房子裡。這個雄心勃勃的國家正在塞爾維亞和克羅埃西亞之間有爭議的領土上建立。科林澄清說，利伯蘭的護照“仍未得到認可”，因此他使用加拿大護照