佛罗里达州议员抵制唐纳德·特朗普总统的比特币计划

恭喜佛罗里达州议员在唐纳德·特朗普总统的比特币计划中并没有变得容易。

When President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March that created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, he called the volatile cryptocurrency “digital gold” and draped it in a lot of hyperbolic rhetoric that guaranteed short-term gains for existing investors.

当唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）在3月发出一项行政命令时，他称战略性比特币储备时，他称挥发性加密货币为“数字黄金”，并以许多夸张的言论披露，保证了现有投资者的短期收益。

“The United States Government currently holds a significant amount of BTC, (bitcoin), but has not implemented a policy to maximize BTC’s strategic position as a unique store of value in the global financial system,” the executive order read.

“美国政府目前拥有大量的BTC（比特币），但尚未实施政策，以最大化BTC作为全球金融体系中独特价值存储的战略地位。”

“Just as it is in our country’s interest to thoughtfully manage national ownership and control of any other resource, our Nation must harness, not limit, the power of digital assets for our prosperity.”

“正如我们国家对国家所有权并控制任何其他资源的利益一样，我们的国家也必须利用而不是限制数字资产的力量来实现我们的繁荣。”

Florida had a Bitcoin bill. It failed. And like magic, Trump-susceptible legislatures around the country began pushing bills that called for state funds to invest in Bitcoin.

佛罗里达州有一张比特币账单。它失败了。像魔术一样，全国各地的特朗普立法机关开始推动要求州资金投资比特币的法案。

That effort in the Florida House of Representatives was led by Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-Deland, who authored a bill that would allow the state to invest up to 10 percent of the money in the state’s retirement trust fund, general fund, and other funds in Bitcoin.

R-Deland的众议员Webster Barnaby领导了佛罗里达州众议院的这项努力，他撰写了一项法案，该法案允许该州投资于该州退休信托基金，一般基金和比特币的其他基金中的10％的资金。

Speaking to the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee last month, Barnaby told members to put aside their fears of cryptocurrency and put their faith in Trump.

巴纳比（Barnaby）在上个月对房屋保险和银行小组委员会的讲话时，告诉成员们抛弃对加密货币的担忧，并将他们对特朗普的信念。

“It is a new day. This is a new rising. We are embarking on the golden age of the United States of America,” Barnaby said.

“这是新的一天。这是一个新的崛起。我们正在踏上美利坚合众国的黄金时代。”

“We are doing something that is consequential, representatives. While we cannot tangibly see, we have to trust … I’ve done my research and I can tell you wholeheartedly that I believe in the president of the United States.”

“代表我们正在做的事情。虽然我们看不见，但我们必须信任……我已经完成了研究，我可以全心全意地告诉你，我相信美国总统。”

(That sound you hear in the back of your head is the faint bleating of a lamb.)

（您在头部后面听到的声音是羔羊的微弱的淡淡。）

Clearly, the man’s not a Trump University graduate.

显然，这个人不是特朗普大学的毕业生。

As for research, I would start with noting that Trump disbanded the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team while he relentlessly marketed his own $TRUMP memecoin and his sons Don Jr. and Eric got into the Bitcoin mining business.

至于研究，我将首先指出，特朗普在不懈地推销自己的$特朗普纪念物和他的儿子唐·唐（Don Jr.

Looks like “the golden age” is off to a grifting start.

看起来“黄金时代”正处于一个艰难的开始。

Lucky for us, the sales pitch to make Florida the first state to jump on the Trump Bitcoin bandwagon and put the state’s pension fund at risk gave lawmakers some pause.

对我们来说幸运的是，使佛罗里达州成为第一个跳上特朗普比特币潮流并将该州养老基金的销售投入到危险中，这使立法者暂停了。

“The second one of these blockchain technologies gets hacked, the value of that coin goes to zero pretty quick,” said Rep. Kevin Steele, R-Hudson. “That would be the only fear I have in investing in something like that.

“这些区块链技术中的第二个被黑客入侵，该硬币的价值很快就零，” R-Hudson的众议员凯文·斯蒂尔（Kevin Steele）说。 “那将是我投资类似的唯一恐惧。

“I’m a tangible person,” Steele continued. “A coin I can’t touch, feel or see is not tangible. It’s ‘vaporware,’ so to speak.”

“我是一个有形的人，”斯蒂尔继续说道。 “我无法触摸，感觉或看到的硬币是不明显的。可以这么说，这是'蒸气软件'。”

State Rep. Mike Caruso, R-West Palm Beach, thought that giving the state’s Chief Financial Officer the ability to invest 10 percent of state funds in a cryptocurrency was too risky.

R-West Palm Beach的州众议员Mike Caruso认为，使该州首席财务官能够在加密货币中投资10％的州资金的能力太冒险了。

“Do you think it’s wise to invest up to 10 percent of our entire portfolio in any one item, whether it’s Bitcoin or Tesla stock?” he asked.

“您认为无论是比特币还是特斯拉股票，将多达10％的整个投资组合投资是明智的吗？”他问。

State Rep. Adam Anderson, R-Palm Harbor, a wealth manager by trade, said he didn’t know why the state should single out just Bitcoin when there are many other forms of cryptocurrency that could be purchased.

州众议员亚当·安德森（Adam Anderson），贸易财富经理R-palm港（R-Palm Harbour）说，他不知道为什么在还有许多其他形式的加密货币可以购买的加密货币时，该州应该只挑出比特币。

He also said that this was an investment option that was still “in its infancy.” And that should give us pause.

他还说，这是一种仍处于起步阶段的投资选择。那应该让我们停下来。

“There are new concerns when we’re adding a new asset class,” he told his colleagues. “One of them, significantly, is the volatility.”

他对同事说：“当我们添加新的资产班时，会有新的担忧。” “其中之一是波动性。”

State Rep. Yvonne Hayes Hinson, D-Gainesville, 65, said she learned from her children and grandchildren that “there’s a whole new world out there in this digital stuff.”

65岁的D-Gainesville的州众议员Yvonne Hayes Hinson说，她从孩子和孙子那里了解到“这些数字内容中有一个全新的世界。”

But she worried about giving Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, a job that’s now vacant, the power to take real money out of state funds to invest in something so hard to imagine.

但是她担心给佛罗里达州的首席财务官（现在已经空置的工作），有能力将真钱从州资金中拿出来投资于如此难以想象的事情。

“My generation don’t understand it if it’s not money,” she said.

她说：“如果不是钱，我们这一代就不明白。”

In the end, Florida lawmakers took a pass on succumbing to Trump’s Bitcoin push. And the state wasn't alone.

最后，佛罗里达州议员屈服于特朗普的比特币推动。国家并不孤单。

Trump's Bitcoin push failed elsewhere, too. Good.

特朗普的比特币推动力在其他地方也失败了。好的。

Similar legislative efforts in Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma failed to adopt Bitcoin reserves in those states, either.

怀俄明州，北达科他州，南达科他州，蒙大拿州，宾夕法尼亚州和俄克拉荷马州的类似立法努力也未能在这些州采用比特币储备。

And in Arizona, the state’s Democratic governor, Katie Hobbs, vetoed a Bitcoin bill last week that had been passed by the Republican-led legislature there.

在亚利桑那州，该州的民主党州长凯蒂·霍布斯（Katie Hobbs）上周否决了一项由共和党领导的立法机关通过的比特币法案。

"The Arizona State Retirement System is one of the strongest in the nation because it makes sound and informed investments," Hobbs wrote in her veto letter.

霍布斯在她的否决信中写道：“亚利桑那州退休制度是全国最强大的国家之一，因为它做出了良好的投资。”

"Arizonans' retirement funds are not the place for the state to try untested investments like virtual currency."

“亚利桑那州的退休资金并不是国家尝试像虚拟货币这样的未经测试投资的地方。”

And neither is Florida's. At least for now.

佛罗里达州也不是。至少现在。

So, let’s salute our state lawmakers for having enough

因此，让我们向州议员致敬