自比特币创建以来，许多福音派人士都以怀疑的方式注视着数字货币

自比特币在2008年创建以来，许多福音派人士都怀疑了数字货币的兴起。

Since bitcoin’s creation in 2008, many evangelicals have viewed the rise of digital currency with skepticism. Focus on the Family, citing financial adviser Dave Ramsey, compared cryptocurrency to risky strategies like day trading and issued Proverbs-style warnings against seeking to gain riches quickly. Other Christian resources, such as Cru, give similar advice, comparing crypto to gambling.

自比特币在2008年创建以来，许多福音派人士都怀疑了数字货币的兴起。财务顾问戴夫·拉姆西（Dave Ramsey）专注于家庭，将加密货币与诸如日间交易和发出谚语式警告之类的风险策略进行了比较，以防止寻求迅速获得财富。其他基督教资源（例如CRU）提供了类似的建议，将加密货币与赌博进行了比较。

Now, some evangelicals, such as the makers of the God Bless Bitcoin documentary, are becoming crypto enthusiasts—with the leader of the free world on their side. Point to Light, a non-profit focused on service to the poor, is making a documentary about Trump’s good works.

现在，有些福音派人物，例如《上帝保佑比特币》纪录片的制造商，正成为加密裔爱好者，这是自由世界的领导者。一家专注于为穷人服务的非营利组织的指点正在制作一部有关特朗普的好作品的纪录片。

“[President Donald Trump’s] big appeal, at least since he entered politics, is to make people feel like they are a part of something,” said William Schultz, associate professor of American religions at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. Now supporters can join Trump’s crypto empire. Political scientists and ethics experts say Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures raise conflict-of-interest concerns, trample long-held norms that risk degrading trust in the US government, and pave the way for more corruption from both political parties.

芝加哥大学神学院的美国宗教副教授威廉·舒尔茨（William Schultz）说：“ [唐纳德·特朗普总统]的巨大吸引力是使人们觉得自己是某事的一部分。”现在，支持者可以加入特朗普的加密帝国。政治科学家和道德专家说，特朗普的加密货币企业引发了利益冲突的问题，践踏长期以来的规范，冒着降低对美国政府信任的信任的规范，并为两个政党的腐败铺平道路。

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Even though he may not be actively making personal business decisions—Trump has handed control of his business affairs to his sons—“he still benefits from all of his family’s business interests and from their companies,” said Mark Caleb Smith, director of the center for political studies at Cedarville University. It’s a stark departure from previous presidents—every president since the 1970s placed their assets in blind trusts to avoid even the appearance of profiting off the presidency.

即使他可能没有积极做出个人业务决策 - 特朗普将对他的商务的控制权交给了儿子，“他仍然从全家人的所有商业利益及其公司中受益，”塞达维尔大学政治研究中心主任马克·卡莱布·史密斯（Mark Caleb Smith）说。这是与以前的总统的明显不同 - 自1970年代以来，每个总统都将其资产置于盲人信托基金中，以避免从总统职位中获利。

With murky origins, cryptocurrency is the Wild West in the financial world. It remains a largely unregulated digital frontier despite a veneer of transparency. The transactions appear on a public ledger, but the identities of participants are anonymous. Digital currency, according to Devin Singh, associate professor of religion at Dartmouth College, appeals to both libertarians and anarchists, who from opposite ends of the political spectrum “see in cryptocurrencies a basis for communal transactions that circumvent state oversight and control.”

有了模糊的起源，加密货币是金融界的野生西部。尽管具有透明度的贴面，但它仍然在很大程度上不受管制的数字边界。交易出现在公共分类帐中，但参与者的身份是匿名的。达特茅斯学院宗教副教授德文·辛格（Devin Singh）称，数字货币对自由主义者和无政府主义者都提出上诉，他们从政治范围的另一端“请参见加密货币，这是绕过国家监督和控制的公共交易的基础。”

That’s made crypto a safe haven for bad actors in the underworld, and it’s partly why “the US, which is the global financial policeman, doesn’t traditionally like crypto,” said Derek Scissors, an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow who has an expertise in economics. Two countries have made cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador and the Central African Republic. One reason crypto hasn’t caught on as legal tender for more countries, Singh told Christianity Today: “It was not designed to function as a legal, state-backed currency.”

这使加密货币成为黑社会中坏演员的避风港，这就是为什么“美国是全球金融警察，传统上不像加密货币的美国”的原因。两个国家已经制定了加密货币法律招标：萨尔瓦多和中非共和国。辛格今天对基督教说：“加密货币尚未成为法定国家的法定货币的原因之一：“它并非旨在用作法律，国家支持的货币。”

The Trump administration is steering the United States in a pro-crypto direction. Crypto-related political action committees and other groups spent more than $200 million during the 2024 campaign for pro-crypto candidates. Trump earned crypto support after issuing a campaign promise to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet.”

特朗普政府正在将美国朝着亲克莱普托的方向发展。与加密相关的政治行动委员会和其他团体在2024年为亲克莱托普候选人的竞选活动中花费了超过2亿美元。特朗普在发出竞选承诺使美国成为“地球的加密之都”之后获得了加密支持。

Once on record as a crypto skeptic, Trump was not amused when mainstream financial institutions like Deutsche Bank said they wouldn’t do business with him after the January 6 Capitol riot. Now, while Trump is known as a real estate mogul, some estimates place around 40 percent of his net worth in various crypto assets.

一旦作为加密货币怀疑论者，特朗普就不会感到逗乐，当时像德意志银行这样的主流金融机构说，他们不会在1月6日的国会大厦暴动后与他做生意。现在，尽管特朗普被称为房地产大亨，但一些估计将其净资产的约40％放在各种加密资产中。

Trump has a personal digital meme coin, $TRUMP. Meme coin is more of a collector’s item than an actual currency. A particular meme coin has no inherent value other than its association, which could be with celebrities or public figures, including presidents. Earlier this month, Trump encouraged people to invest in $TRUMP for the chance of face time with him. The top 220 holders of the token will be invited to a private reception Thursday at Trump National Golf Club near Washington, DC.

特朗普拥有个人数字模因硬币，特朗普。模因硬币更像是收藏家的物品，而不是实际的货币。特定的模因硬币除了其关联外没有固有的价值，这可能与包括总统在内的名人或公众人物。本月早些时候，特朗普鼓励人们在与他的面对面时间投资$特朗普。代币的前220名持有人将于周四在华盛顿特区附近的特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部举行私人招待会。

The invite caused the value of $TRUMP to spike, giving the Trumps more than $1.3 million in fees alone, which are generated whenever someone buys or sells the meme coin. Others, seeing the bump, seized the opportunity to sell their holdings and rake in the cash.

邀请使$ trump的价值飙升，仅给特朗普提供了超过130万美元的费用，每当有人购买或出售模因硬币时就会产生。其他人看到颠簸，抓住了出售其股份并以现金奖励的机会。

Some who invested have openly said they bought it in hopes of influencing US policy if they do have Trump face time. For example, Javier Selgas, CEO of a cross-border transportation logistics firm, said he would buy $20 million worth of $TRUMP coins as a way to advocate for free trade between Mexico and the US in the midst of the trade war.

一些投资的人公开表示，如果他们确实有特朗普的时间，他们购买了它，以期影响美国政策。例如，一家跨境运输物流公司首席执行官哈维尔·塞尔加斯（Javier Selgas）表示，他将在贸易战中购买价值2000万美元的特朗普硬币，以倡导墨西哥与美国之间的自由贸易。

Trump’s crypto empire includes Trump Digital Trading Card non-fungible tokens, along with Donald and Melania Trump meme coins, a

特朗普的加密帝国包括特朗普数字贸易卡，以及唐纳德（Donald）和梅拉尼亚·特朗普（Melania Trump Meme Coins）