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前总统唐纳德·特朗普于 2024 年 7 月 27 日星期六在田纳西州纳什维尔举行的比特币 2024 会议上发表讲话。

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

前总统唐纳德·特朗普于 2024 年 7 月 27 日星期六在田纳西州纳什维尔举行的比特币 2024 会议上发表讲话。

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.”

田纳西州纳什维尔——7 月 27 日，唐纳德·特朗普在年度比特币会议上对数千名比特币爱好者说：“如果你们不选我，我不想告诉你们，你们就会被压垮。”

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.

这位前总统和新晋加密货币支持者在全国比特币会议上向全神贯注的观众发表了近一个小时的演讲，在抚慰与会者的自我（“高智商个人！”）和他自己的自我（“因为我，[监管机构”）之间切换。 ] 让你一个人呆着。所以请说，‘谢谢你，特朗普总统，非常感谢你。’”）他说到了他的谈话要点（比特币是“人类的奇迹”，不应该被监管和猖獗的通货膨胀所扼杀。是一种正在摧毁国家的“隐形税收”），并在选举年承诺将加密货币的盈利能力释放到更高的高度。

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，特朗普在白宫期间，他曾宣称自己“不喜欢”比特币和加密货币，并在推特上表示，它们“不是货币”，其价值“高度波动且凭空而来”。但在过去的几个月里，他对加密货币行业越来越熟悉，彭博社的一篇报道称，这一过程是由特朗普对自己的 NFT 系列（以他自己讨人喜欢的标志性照片为特色的数字资产）的着迷而开始的。但无论是什么促成了这种关系，特朗普无疑受益于该行业充足的支出。新的支持加密货币的超级 PAC Fairshake 迄今为止已筹集了超过 2 亿美元，其中大部分用于针对民主党的负面广告。据报道，特朗普在比特币会议上筹集了整整 2100 万美元，主要是通过一场“圆桌”会议，其入场费为每次 844,600 美元，另外还有 60,000 美元用于与前总统合影。

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!”

随着特朗普在会议上发表主旨演讲，比特币似乎已经完成了从经济边缘到政治生活中间的旅程。另一位总统候选人小罗伯特·肯尼迪也是头条新闻，共有 10 名参议员出席。 “多年来我们所有人都被告知我们疯了，”周六活动的会议主持人 TJ Miller 在舞台上踱步时喊道。 “现在，操那些家伙！”

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，在比特币会议上走一圈，可以清楚地看到加密货币运动尴尬地站在十字路口。该运动原则上拒绝政府和银行，但也对政客和贝莱德代表的到来感到兴奋。它讨好富有的商人（只要他们支持比特币！），但也充满了自由主义书呆子，他们穿着尽可能多的橙色（比特币标志的颜色）参加会议：橙色乐福鞋直到他们的橙色牛仔帽。一名男子的躯干上穿着一个浮肿的比特币实体模型，脚上穿着及膝的猫王袜子，戴着一顶写着“HAT GUY”的巨大红色帽子。另一位是一位加密货币影响者，他兴奋地告诉我，“他们叫我劳德茅斯！”——戴着金链子和戒指，他自己的脸、伸出舌头的照片绣在他的红金亮片西装上，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.

很难忽视的是许多穿着“投票特朗普”的男人。免费罗斯第一天”T 恤，会议期间赠送了数千件 T 恤。现年 40 岁的罗斯·乌布利希 (Ross Ulbricht) 因在 2011 年创立丝绸之路 (Silk Road) 而被判无期徒刑，丝绸之路是一个由比特币推动的黑市，人们用加密货币交换毒品、一些色情作品，偶尔还会进行暗杀企图（正如乌布利希本人所做的那样）。大多数男性和绝大多数白人和中年参与者戴着很多帽子：牛仔帽、棒球帽——其中有很多 MAGA 帽子，但更多的帽子上写着“让比特币再次伟大”。至少有几个男人穿着皱巴巴的西装，戴着唐纳德·特朗普的假发。

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.

在会议展览厅挤满的摊位上，人们可以购买成套的比特币交易卡，这些卡可以教孩子们“稳健货币的基础知识”，也可以购买杰克和苏珊夫妇制作的夜光“比特币本质”艺术作品。苏珊解释说，12,000 伏的电力可以燃烧比特币徽标形状的“闪电通道”，并在木质墙壁艺术上产生火花。

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

您甚至可以购买“世界上最自由的国家”利伯兰的公民身份。科林向我展示了他自己的利伯兰护照，他解释说，虽然他本人并不住在那里，但该地区大约有 30 个人住在岛中心的一所房子里。这个雄心勃勃的国家正在塞尔维亚和克罗地亚之间有争议的领土上建立。科林澄清说，利伯兰的护照“仍未得到认可”，因此他使用加拿大护照