《上帝保佑比特幣》是一本不錯的入門讀物，介紹了加密貨幣的基礎知識及其與宗教價值觀的重疊

美國經濟目前讓人感到不安，這已不是什麼秘密。高通膨率和最近的股市恐慌（道瓊斯指數下跌超過 1,000 點，觸及兩年來的最低點）是更多跡象。

This documentary tries to bring enthusiasm for cryptocurrency to religious audiences. Through interviews with religious leaders, experts and celebrities like Mark Cuban, Tony Hawk and Robert T. Kiyosaki (“Rich Dad, Poor Dad”), along with animations and narration, the film argues that cryptocurrency is the answer to problems that religious people care about.

這部紀錄片試圖將加密貨幣的熱情帶給宗教觀眾。透過對宗教領袖、專家和馬克·庫班、托尼·霍克和羅伯特·T·清崎（《富爸爸，窮爸爸》）等名人的採訪，以及動畫和旁白，影片認為加密貨幣是宗教人士關心的問題的答案關於。

The film's pitch is standard free-market libertarian fare. They argue that our current money system is broken and that we should adopt digital currency to fix it. The basic reason is that the money we use now is “fiat currency.” This means it’s money that the government declares as our currency and has control over. That monopoly of control, the film argues, has two major problems. The first is that because the government controls the money, they can — and often do — inflate it whenever they want, making each dollar you earn less valuable each year. The second is, in a worst-case scenario, that the government can cancel money as a means to control you.

這部電影的宣傳是標準的自由市場自由主義票價。他們認為我們目前的貨幣體系已經崩潰，我們應該採用數位貨幣來修復它。根本原因是我們現在用的錢是「法定貨幣」。這意味著政府將其宣佈為我們的貨幣並對其擁有控制權。影片認為，這種控制權的壟斷有兩個主要問題。首先，因為政府控制錢，他們可以——而且經常——隨時通貨膨脹，讓你每年賺的每一塊錢都變得不那麼值錢。第二個是，在最壞的情況下，政府可以取消資金作為控制你的手段。

The movie does a solid job identifying the problems that crypto-enthusiasts see with our current forms of money and how cryptocurrency — and Bitcoin in particular — solves those problems. Each stage of the argument is taken in steps, with at least three layers of explanation. The various experts they interview will explain it, then they’ll have an infographic and then their chief explainer will summarize what they’ve gone through in the simplest way possible. Sometimes, I felt talked down to, particularly with the sing-song voice some people use when explaining the concepts. At the same time, I can’t fault them for wanting to err on the side of clarity.

這部電影很好地揭示了加密貨幣愛好者對我們當前的貨幣形式所面臨的問題，以及加密貨幣（尤其是比特幣）如何解決這些問題。論證的每個階段都是分步驟進行的，至少有三層解釋。他們採訪的各個專家都會對此進行解釋，然後他們將得到一個資訊圖，然後他們的首席解釋員將以盡可能簡單的方式總結他們所經歷的事情。有時，我感覺自己受到了貶低，尤其是當有人在解釋概念時用唱歌的聲音時。同時，我不能責怪他們想要在清晰的方面犯錯。

With its pitch of free-market libertarian entrepreneurship to religious audiences, “God Bless Bitcoin” is a very American documentary. Which is, frankly, part of the movie’s charm. It’s commonly observed that America is unusual in its union between social and religious conservatives and economic ones. A recent study from Cambridge University Press of 99 countries found that in almost every single one that are socially conservative were negatively correlated with being economically conservative. This makes sense. The freedom types chafe at any authority — religious or government — telling them what to do. Meanwhile, religious conservatives support submitting yourself to the higher authorities of God and the community and don’t mind using the government to enforce that.

《上帝保佑比特幣》向宗教觀眾宣揚自由市場自由主義創業精神，是一部非常美國化的紀錄片。坦白說，這就是這部電影魅力的一部分。人們普遍認為，美國的社會和宗教保守派與經濟保守派之間的結合是不尋常的。劍橋大學出版社最近對 99 個國家進行的一項研究發現，幾乎每個國家的社會保守主義都與經濟保守主義呈負相關。這是有道理的。自由類型對任何權威——宗教或政府——告訴他們該做什麼感到惱火。同時，宗教保守派支持向上帝和社會的更高權威屈服，並且不介意利用政府來強制執行。

In America, economic and religious conservatives are united by opposition to government coercion and a belief that free markets both create the most freedom and the most good for people. And yet, sometimes there’s still deep tension in those alliances. The film also does a good job of going through how members of different religious traditions see Bitcoin as a way of acting out their faith.

在美國，經濟和宗教保守派因反對政府強制和相信自由市場既能為人民創造最大的自由又最有利的信念而團結在一起。然而，有時這些聯盟中仍然存在著深刻的緊張關係。這部電影也很好地探討了不同宗教傳統的成員如何將比特幣視為履行其信仰的一種方式。

Whether it’s “Moksha” or “Yogakshima” in India speaking to material and spiritual well-being, Buddhism being a “decentralized religion” like Bitcoin in a decentralized economy, Islam having a tradition of Muhammad saying that people can’t fix the price because “God fixes the prices,” One common thread is that most religions have a principle of “do good with your wealth” — and that is the case they make for why they see using Bitcoin as an extension of their beliefs.

無論是印度的“Moksha”還是“Yogakshima”都代表著物質和精神的福祉，佛教是一種“去中心化的宗教”，就像去中心化經濟中的比特幣一樣，伊斯蘭教有著穆罕默德的傳統，認為人們無法確定價格，因為“上帝決定價格”，一個共同點是大多數宗教都有一個“利用你的財富行善”的原則——這就是他們為什麼將比特幣視為信仰的延伸的原因。

Some of the attempts to show compatibility between faith and Bitcoin work better than others. The strongest cases are when they focus on values that people of faith prioritize, like family formation, protection from big government programs and the poor not having their wealth stolen from them. Others, such as the contention that Bitcoin “blockchain” is like the “chain” of Jewish tradition, felt like a stretch.

一些展示信仰和比特幣之間兼容性的嘗試比其他嘗試效果更好。最有力的例子是當他們關注有信仰的人優先考慮的價值觀時，例如家庭組建、免受大型政府計劃的保護以及窮人的財富不被竊取。其他的觀點，例如比特幣“區塊鏈”就像猶太傳統的“鏈條”，感覺有點牽強。

The biggest weakness of this documentary is it doesn’t contain any dissenting voices. This is a problem with documentaries I’ve talked about before. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with a documentary having a strong point of view, but those views are most persuasive when you feel like you’ve heard the other side. Most people recognize that when you’ve only heard one side, you’re missing something. That’s why The Book of Proverbs (18:17) says, “In a lawsuit, the first to speak seems right until someone comes forward and cross-examines.”

這部紀錄片最大的弱點是它沒有任何反對的聲音。這是我之前講過的紀錄片的問題。顯然，一部紀錄片擁有強烈的觀點並沒有什麼問題，但當你覺得你聽到了對方的觀點時，這些觀點才最有說服力。大多數人都認識到，當您只聽到一側時，您就會錯過一些東西。所以《箴言》（18:17）說：“打官司時，先說話的人似乎是對的，直到有人出面質證。”

Because people with critical thinking know they aren’t getting both sides of the story, they know they’d have to research the other side to feel like they’ve learned something. But because they’re busy, there’s a strong likelihood they won’t do the extra research. So they’ll simply be left unpersuaded. The people left will be the people who lack critical thinking skills and who simply believe what they’re told without skepticism. That isn’t really who you want to be the main people in your movement.

因為具有批判性思考的人知道他們無法了解故事的兩面，他們知道他們必須研究另一面才能感覺自己學到了一些東西。但由於他們很忙，他們很可能不會進行額外的研究。所以他們根本不會被說服。留下來的人將是缺乏批判性思考能力、只是相信別人告訴他們的事情而沒有懷疑的人。這並不是你真正想要成為運動中的主要人物。

The film also falls into a bit of utopian thinking. One thing I’ve always appreciated about libertarians is a lack of idealized thinking. They know that life is full of tradeoffs and that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. You can

這部電影也陷入了一些烏托邦式的思考。我一直欣賞自由主義者的一件事是缺乏理想化的思維。他們知道生活充滿了權衡，沒有免費的午餐。你可以