埃里克·特朗普 (Eric Trump) 是 MAGA 世界的新加密兄弟

这位前总统的第二个儿子将自己重新塑造为加密货币兄弟，上周在一条推文中调侃说，他和哥哥小唐(Don Jr.)在区块链上发布了“一项重大声明”。

Eric Trump has joined the crypto fray, teasing a “big announcement” with his brother, Don Jr., via a tweet last week.

埃里克·特朗普 (Eric Trump) 加入了加密货币领域的争论，上周通过推文与他的兄弟小唐 (Don Jr.) 调侃了一项“重大声明”。

“I have truly fallen in love with Crypto / DeFi,” he wrote, tagging Don Jr. and their father in the post.

“我真的爱上了加密货币 / DeFi，”他写道，并在帖子中标记了小 Don 和他们的父亲。

Don Jr. followed up the next day, teasing a “HUGE” project.

小唐第二天跟进，戏弄了一个“巨大”的项目。

“We’re about to shake up the crypto world with something,” Don Jr. wrote.

“我们即将用一些东西来撼动加密世界，”小唐写道。

Eric later appeared in the New York Post on Wednesday to continue building anticipation for the announcement.

埃里克随后于周三出现在《纽约邮报》上，继续引发人们对这一消息的期待。

“It’s digital real estate,” Eric told the Post. “It’s equitable. It’s collateral anyone can get access to and do so instantly. I don’t know if people realize what a shake-up that is for the world of banking and finance. I hope we can help change that.”

“这是数字房地产，”埃里克告诉《华盛顿邮报》。 “这是公平的。它是任何人都可以立即使用的抵押品。我不知道人们是否意识到这对银行和金融界来说是一场多大的变革。我希望我们能够帮助改变这一现状。”

After touching on the golden rule (always trust a man who promises you instant access to wealth), Eric pivoted to railing against the “financial discrimination” his family has experienced, an interesting way of scooting around the subject of the Trumps’ various monetary woes. He capped things off on a lighter note, expressing his desire to help build “a world where we don’t have to play by the big bank’s playbook.”

在谈及黄金法则（永远相信一个承诺让你立即获得财富的人）之后，埃里克转而谴责他的家人所经历的“财务歧视”，这是一种有趣的方式来回避特朗普家族的各种货币困境。 。他以轻松的语气结束了这一切，表达了他希望帮助建立“一个我们不必遵循大银行剧本的世界”的愿望。

Given that cryptocurrency and its cornerstone, Bitcoin, have enjoyed general mainstream awareness since at least 2017, it seems strange that Eric, 40, would choose now to start shilling for the coin.

鉴于加密货币及其基石比特币至少自 2017 年以来就已获得普遍主流认知，40 岁的埃里克现在选择开始购买比特币似乎很奇怪。

But in a strange coincidence of timing that likely has no greater significance, Eric’s original tweet dropped the same day that the Donald J. Trump meme token saw its liquidity pulled, an exit scam known in the crypto world as a “rug pull” that will see a coin’s creators hype it up, then abruptly vanish with investor funds, leaving it worthless.

但在一个奇怪的时间巧合中，埃里克的原始推文在唐纳德·J·特朗普模因代币的流动性被拉动的同一天被删除，这种退出骗局在加密世界中被称为“地毯拉动”，这将导致埃里克的原始推文被删除。看到一种货币的创造者对其进行炒作，然后突然与投资者资金一起消失，使其变得一文不值。

Because of the way the blockchain functions, it’s impossible to know for sure who created the DJT coin earlier this year. Credit has been claimed by Martin ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli, who said in June that he had worked with Donald Trump’s 18-year-old son, Barron, to create the token.

由于区块链的运作方式，我们无法确定今年早些时候谁创造了 DJT 币。 Martin“Pharma Bro”Shkreli 声称这是他的功劳，他在 6 月份表示，他与唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 18 岁的儿子巴伦 (Barron) 合作创建了该代币。

“I have over 1000 pieces of evidence I created it with Barron,” he told crypto sleuth ZachXBT.

“我有超过 1000 条证据是我和 Barron 一起创造的，”他告诉加密货币侦探 ZachXBT。

When the coin lost 95 percent of its market value on Tuesday, Shkreli pointed to Barron, tweeting in response to a user asking him to comment on its plunge to “ask barron, I dont have the keys or any tokens.”

周二，当该代币市值下跌 95% 时，什克雷利指着巴伦，在推特上回应一位用户要求他对代币暴跌发表评论的消息，“问巴伦，我没有钥匙或任何代币。”

There was a time when the former president turned up his nose at cryptocurrency, unloading on it as “a scam” and “a disaster waiting to happen” in interviews as recently as 2021.

曾几何时，这位前总统对加密货币嗤之以鼻，在 2021 年的采访中将其斥为“一场骗局”和“一场即将发生的灾难”。

“I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air,” he tweeted in 2019. “Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity.”

他在 2019 年发推文称：“我不喜欢比特币和其他加密货币，它们不是货币，其价值波动很大，而且是凭空而来。不受监管的加密资产可能会助长非法行为，包括毒品交易和其他非法行为。”活动。”

Trump’s observations remain correct; the asset class is fundamentally unregulated and untethered to trust in the government or a central bank, leaving investors vulnerable to risk, ruin, and con artists of all shapes and sizes. Since President Joe Biden took office, the Securities and Exchange Commission has filed dozens of actions against crypto firms and personalities. Biden himself has advocated for “appropriate guardrails” to be installed around the medium to better protect consumers and investors.

特朗普的观察仍然正确；该资产类别基本上不受监管，也不受政府或中央银行的信任，使投资者容易受到风险、破产和各种形式和规模的骗子的影响。自乔·拜登总统上任以来，美国证券交易委员会已针对加密货币公司和人士提起了数十起诉讼。拜登本人就主张在媒体周围设置“适当的护栏”，以更好地保护消费者和投资者。

But Trump is singing a markedly different tune these days, backpedaling to praise crypto amid a windfall of campaign contributions from crypto executives and support from super PACs goosed by digital coin evangelists. Advisors told The Washington Post last month that this pivot was the result of the crypto lobby’s overtures.

但特朗普最近唱出了明显不同的调子，在加密货币高管的竞选捐款和数字货币传播者推动的超级政​​治行动委员会的支持下，他转而赞扬加密货币。顾问们上个月告诉《华盛顿邮报》，这种转向是加密货币游说团体提议的结果。

“Anyone who has ever walked into Trump’s office and offered him an easy way to make some money, they get his attention. They are off to the races,” Tim L. O’Brien, a Trump biographer, explained to the newspaper. “He’s always been opportunistic about policy.”

“任何走进特朗普办公室并向他提供简单赚钱方法的人都会引起他的注意。 “他们已经开始参加竞选了，”特朗普传记作者蒂姆·奥布莱恩 (Tim L. O'Brien) 向该报解释道。 “他在政策上一直都是机会主义的。”

As a direct result, according to the Post’s reporting, crypto was for the first time injected into the official Republican Party platform that rolled out over the summer. The platform, which takes its cues from Trump’s own views, vowed to “end Democrats’ unlawful and un-American crypto crackdown and oppose the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency.

据《华盛顿邮报》报道，直接结果是，加密货币首次被注入到今年夏天推出的共和党官方平台中。该平台从特朗普自己的观点中汲取灵感，誓言要“结束民主党非法且不符合美国精神的加密货币镇压，并反对创建央行数字货币。”

“We will defend the right to mine Bitcoin,” it continues, “and ensure every American has the right to self-custody of their digital assets and transact free from government surveillance and control.”

“我们将捍卫开采比特币的权利，”它继续说道，“并确保每个美国人都有权自行保管其数字资产，并在不受政府监视和控制的情况下进行交易。”