比特币需要美国

大约三年前，我在《纽约时报》上写道，比特币可以拯救脱轨的美国。

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，我开始在《纽约时报》上争论美国需要比特币。现在，精英技术专家和普通公民了解比特币需要美国的时机已经成熟。

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.”

我当时呼吁——从那时起我就一直呼吁——要求各州“成为数字权利的广泛法律庇护所”。 “美国人需要比特币等来夺回他们在数字世界的命运，而不是将其托付给更多的私营或公共部门霸主。”

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.

这一号召性用语的辩护进展缓慢。但多亏了唐纳德·特朗普，本周它就来了。这位前总统对拜登政权法律的顽固抵制激励了越来越多的领先技术专家公开表明自己是特朗普的支持者。

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.

如果特朗普认输，这些技术人员很可能会接受拜登博格对我们第一、第二和第四修正案中隐含的数字权利的四年的觉醒战争：言论自由、结社自由、保留和承担基本的防御工具，以及免受未经授权的监视和扣押的自由。

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.

这就是为什么比特币是科技与特朗普关系的关键。虽然人工智能等大多数尖端技术距离普通美国人的接触和理解还很远，但比特币却有着根本的不同。它现在已经准备好供普通人使用——而不仅仅是在华尔街批准和控制的账户中收集——作为一种交换媒介，一种不受对我们的生活方式、我们的宪法形式的政府怀有敌意的监督者控制的媒介，甚至我们的人性本身。

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 联合创始人兼首席执行官布莱恩·阿姆斯特朗 (Brian Armstrong) 本周在 X 上发布的那样，“比特币是通胀和赤字支出的重要制衡工具。它可能会扩展美国的实验，并随之扩展西方文明。拥有比特币是亲美国的。”

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.

比特币与科技或政治领域的任何其他东西都不同——它是一种我们可以共同使用的独特武器，可以将美国从崩溃的边缘拉回来。随着特朗普的拥抱，不愿加入拜登博格的技术人员也准备好拥抱特朗普。

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.

现在是采取下一个关键步骤的时候了：让数百万人参与其中。公众需要听到强有力的支持特朗普的科技领导人的声音：比特币并不是为了通过以美元计价的投机来快速致富；而是为了让人们从美元计价的投机中快速致富。这是关于将我们国家的命运从唤醒的超级计算机的控制中夺回。购买比特币固然很棒，但这还不够。自建国以来，美国人就一致认为，真正的财富是有用的，并且为了健康的目的而诚实地使用才能产生真正的财富。这就是为什么数以百万计的美国人需要按照其设计初衷来使用比特币：利用我们庞大的计算资源来服务于我们和我们的生活中最好、最神圣的事物，而不是集体主义意识形态或全球主义狂热梦想。