《上帝保佑比特币》是一本不错的入门读物，介绍了加密货币的基础知识及其与宗教价值观的重叠

美国经济目前让人们感到不安，这已不是什么秘密。高通胀率和最近的股市恐慌（道琼斯指数下跌超过 1,000 点，触及两年来的最低点）是更多迹象。

This documentary tries to bring enthusiasm for cryptocurrency to religious audiences. Through interviews with religious leaders, experts and celebrities like Mark Cuban, Tony Hawk and Robert T. Kiyosaki (“Rich Dad, Poor Dad”), along with animations and narration, the film argues that cryptocurrency is the answer to problems that religious people care about.

这部纪录片试图将加密货币的热情带给宗教观众。通过对宗教领袖、专家和马克·库班、托尼·霍克和罗伯特·T·清崎（《富爸爸，穷爸爸》）等名人的采访，以及动画和旁白，影片认为加密货币是宗教人士关心的问题的答案关于。

The film's pitch is standard free-market libertarian fare. They argue that our current money system is broken and that we should adopt digital currency to fix it. The basic reason is that the money we use now is “fiat currency.” This means it’s money that the government declares as our currency and has control over. That monopoly of control, the film argues, has two major problems. The first is that because the government controls the money, they can — and often do — inflate it whenever they want, making each dollar you earn less valuable each year. The second is, in a worst-case scenario, that the government can cancel money as a means to control you.

这部电影的宣传是标准的自由市场自由主义票价。他们认为我们当前的货币体系已经崩溃，我们应该采用数字货币来修复它。根本原因是我们现在用的钱是“法定货币”。这意味着政府将其宣布为我们的货币并对其拥有控制权。影片认为，这种控制权的垄断有两个主要问题。首先，因为政府控制着钱，他们可以——而且经常——随时通货膨胀，让你每年赚的每一块钱都变得不那么值钱。第二个是，在最坏的情况下，政府可以取消资金作为控制你的手段。

The movie does a solid job identifying the problems that crypto-enthusiasts see with our current forms of money and how cryptocurrency — and Bitcoin in particular — solves those problems. Each stage of the argument is taken in steps, with at least three layers of explanation. The various experts they interview will explain it, then they’ll have an infographic and then their chief explainer will summarize what they’ve gone through in the simplest way possible. Sometimes, I felt talked down to, particularly with the sing-song voice some people use when explaining the concepts. At the same time, I can’t fault them for wanting to err on the side of clarity.

这部电影很好地揭示了加密货币爱好者对我们当前的货币形式所面临的问题，以及加密货币（尤其是比特币）如何解决这些问题。论证的每个阶段都是分步骤进行的，至少有三层解释。他们采访的各个专家都会对此进行解释，然后他们将得到一个信息图，然后他们的首席解释员将以尽可能简单的方式总结他们所经历的事情。有时，我感觉自己受到了贬低，尤其是当有人在解释概念时用唱歌的声音时。与此同时，我不能责怪他们想要在清晰的方面犯错误。

With its pitch of free-market libertarian entrepreneurship to religious audiences, “God Bless Bitcoin” is a very American documentary. Which is, frankly, part of the movie’s charm. It’s commonly observed that America is unusual in its union between social and religious conservatives and economic ones. A recent study from Cambridge University Press of 99 countries found that in almost every single one that are socially conservative were negatively correlated with being economically conservative. This makes sense. The freedom types chafe at any authority — religious or government — telling them what to do. Meanwhile, religious conservatives support submitting yourself to the higher authorities of God and the community and don’t mind using the government to enforce that.

《上帝保佑比特币》向宗教观众宣扬自由市场自由主义创业精神，是一部非常美国化的纪录片。坦率地说，这就是这部电影魅力的一部分。人们普遍认为，美国的社会和宗教保守派与经济保守派之间的结合是不寻常的。剑桥大学出版社最近对 99 个国家进行的一项研究发现，几乎每个国家的社会保守主义都与经济保守主义呈负相关。这是有道理的。自由类型对任何权威——宗教或政府——告诉他们该做什么感到恼火。与此同时，宗教保守派支持向上帝和社会的更高权威屈服，并且不介意利用政府来强制执行。

In America, economic and religious conservatives are united by opposition to government coercion and a belief that free markets both create the most freedom and the most good for people. And yet, sometimes there’s still deep tension in those alliances. The film also does a good job of going through how members of different religious traditions see Bitcoin as a way of acting out their faith.

在美国，经济和宗教保守派因反对政府强制和相信自由市场既能为人民创造最大的自由又最有利的信念而团结在一起。然而，有时这些联盟中仍然存在深刻的紧张关系。这部电影还很好地探讨了不同宗教传统的成员如何将比特币视为履行其信仰的一种方式。

Whether it’s “Moksha” or “Yogakshima” in India speaking to material and spiritual well-being, Buddhism being a “decentralized religion” like Bitcoin in a decentralized economy, Islam having a tradition of Muhammad saying that people can’t fix the price because “God fixes the prices,” One common thread is that most religions have a principle of “do good with your wealth” — and that is the case they make for why they see using Bitcoin as an extension of their beliefs.

无论是印度的“Moksha”还是“Yogakshima”都代表着物质和精神的福祉，佛教是一种“去中心化的宗教”，就像去中心化经济中的比特币一样，伊斯兰教有着穆罕默德的传统，认为人们无法确定价格，因为“上帝决定价格”，一个共同点是大多数宗教都有一个“利用你的财富行善”的原则——这就是他们为什么将比特币视为信仰的延伸的原因。

Some of the attempts to show compatibility between faith and Bitcoin work better than others. The strongest cases are when they focus on values that people of faith prioritize, like family formation, protection from big government programs and the poor not having their wealth stolen from them. Others, such as the contention that Bitcoin “blockchain” is like the “chain” of Jewish tradition, felt like a stretch.

一些展示信仰和比特币之间兼容性的尝试比其他尝试效果更好。最有力的例子是当他们关注有信仰的人优先考虑的价值观时，比如家庭组建、免受大型政府计划的保护以及穷人的财富不被窃取。其他的观点，比如比特币“区块链”就像犹太传统的“链条”，感觉有点牵强。

The biggest weakness of this documentary is it doesn’t contain any dissenting voices. This is a problem with documentaries I’ve talked about before. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with a documentary having a strong point of view, but those views are most persuasive when you feel like you’ve heard the other side. Most people recognize that when you’ve only heard one side, you’re missing something. That’s why The Book of Proverbs (18:17) says, “In a lawsuit, the first to speak seems right until someone comes forward and cross-examines.”

这部纪录片最大的弱点是它没有任何反对的声音。这是我之前讲过的纪录片的一个问题。显然，一部纪录片拥有强烈的观点并没有什么问题，但当你觉得你听到了对方的观点时，这些观点才最有说服力。大多数人都认识到，当您只听到一侧时，您就会错过一些东西。所以《箴言》（18:17）说：“打官司时，先说话的人似乎是对的，直到有人出面质证。”

Because people with critical thinking know they aren’t getting both sides of the story, they know they’d have to research the other side to feel like they’ve learned something. But because they’re busy, there’s a strong likelihood they won’t do the extra research. So they’ll simply be left unpersuaded. The people left will be the people who lack critical thinking skills and who simply believe what they’re told without skepticism. That isn’t really who you want to be the main people in your movement.

因为具有批判性思维的人知道他们无法了解故事的两面，他们知道他们必须研究另一面才能感觉自己学到了一些东西。但由于他们很忙，他们很可能不会进行额外的研究。所以他们根本不会被说服。留下来的人将是缺乏批判性思维能力、只是相信别人告诉他们的事情而没有怀疑的人。这并不是你真正想要成为运动中的主要人物。

The film also falls into a bit of utopian thinking. One thing I’ve always appreciated about libertarians is a lack of idealized thinking. They know that life is full of tradeoffs and that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. You can

这部电影也陷入了一些乌托邦式的思考。我一直欣赏自由主义者的一件事是缺乏理想化的思维。他们知道生活充满了权衡，没有免费的午餐。你可以