陶（Tao

陶（Tao

Digital Currency Group (DCG) founder Barry Silbert is known for his interest in cryptocurrency and his investments in various blockchain projects. Among the startups that DCG has invested in is Bittensor, an AI-focused blockchain.

數字貨幣集團（DCG）創始人Barry Silbert以對加密貨幣的興趣和對各種區塊鏈項目的投資而聞名。 DCG投資的初創公司是以AI為重點的區塊鏈Bittensor。

However, a recent discussion on X, formerly Twitter, brought to light the tension between supporters of bitcoin (BTC) and those of other cryptocurrencies, like Bittensor’s native token TAO.

但是，最近關於X（以前是Twitter）的討論揭示了比特幣（BTC）支持者與其他加密貨幣（例如Bittensor的本地令牌Tao）之間的緊張關係。

It started with author and bitcoin supporter Parker Lewis calling out Silbert and presenter of The Journey Man podcast, Raoul Pal, for what he described as "affinity scam" in a recent post.

它始於作家和比特幣支持者帕克·劉易斯（Parker Lewis）在最近的一篇文章中呼喚西爾伯特（Silbert）和《旅程人物播客》（Raoul Pal）的演講者拉烏爾·帕爾（Raoul Pal）。

According to Lewis, the pair had been promoting Bittensor and TAO in an attempt to scam people.

根據劉易斯的說法，兩人一直在宣傳比坦索爾和道，以騙人。

To which Silbert responded:

西爾伯特回應的：

“calling $TAO a scam is such a lazy attack. do better.”

“將$ tao稱為騙局是如此懶惰。做得更好。”

A Grayscale Investments, one of Digital Currency Group’s subsidiaries, runs a Bittensor Trust that currently has around $8 million in assets under management. It also has a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (BTC) ( ETF) GBTC with $16.6 billion.

數字貨幣集團的子公司之一的灰度投資公司運營了一項Bittensor Trust，目前擁有約800萬美元的資產管理。它還擁有一個現貨比特幣交易所交易基金（BTC）（ETF）GBTC的166億美元。

What is TAO?

什麼是陶？

Silbert sparked the bitcoiners' ire by comparing Bittensor to the Bitcoin blockchain.

西爾伯特（Silbert）將比廷森（Bittensor）與比特幣區塊鏈進行比較，激發了比特幣的憤怒。

“It’s just like bitcoin, there was a white paper that turned into code then launched and it has the same token economics,” he said on the podcast.

他在播客上說：“就像比特幣一樣，有一張白皮書變成了代碼，然後發行了代碼，並且具有同樣的代幣經濟學。”

While there are some similarities to BTC in that TAO’s supply is capped at 21 million tokens and it goes through block reward halving events, there are also stark differences in terms of the project’s ethos and use case.

儘管與BTC有一些相似之處，因為Tao的供應限制為2100萬個令牌，並且經歷了獎勵減半的事件，但該項目的精神和用例也存在明顯的差異。

Bittensor is a decentralized network that merges blockchain technology with machine learning. It was designed to become a peer-to-peer AI market, where users can share and monetize AI models.

Bittensor是一個分散的網絡，將區塊鏈技術與機器學習相結合。它旨在成為點對點AI市場，用戶可以在其中共享和通過AI模型獲利。

Bitcoin was spawned out of the Libertarian cypherpunk era and designed primarily as a peer-to-peer payment method that avoided government-issued currency. In recent years has also emerged a store of value, becoming a mainstay on company balance sheets to mitigate rising inflation.

比特幣被從自由主義者的Cypherpunk時代中產生，主要是作為避免政府發行貨幣的點對點支付方法設計的。近年來，還出現了價值存儲，成為公司資產負債表的中流tay柱，以減輕通貨膨脹的上升。

The TAO token was released two years ago and has experienced extreme volatility, rising to above $700 on two occasions in 2024 alone. It also crashed to around $200 both times. It was trading recently around $339.

Tao令牌是兩年前發布的，並且經歷了極端波動，僅在2024年就兩次上升到700美元以上。兩次也撞到了200美元左右。它最近交易約339美元。

Bitcoin, meanwhile, has risen from $22,000 since the start of 2023 to as high as $109,000 in January. While it’s had its ups and downs, they’re not as marked as the plunges typically seen across the altcoin market. Bitcoin is currently priced around $90,000 with a market cap about $1.8 trillion. TAO has a market cap around $2.98 billion, according to data on CoinMarketCap.

同時，比特幣從2023年初以來的22,000美元上升到一月份的高達109,000美元。雖然它的起伏，但它們的標誌性不像山寨幣市場中常見的暴跌。比特幣目前的價格約為90,000美元，市值約為1.8萬億美元。根據CoinMarketCap的數據，Tao的市值約為29.8億美元。