美国参议院共和党人蒂姆·斯科特首次亮相加密货币粉丝

经过多年对数字资产的沉默之后，参议院银行委员会的共和党高层作为支持者在比特币 2024 舞台上发起了猛烈攻击。

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) made a surprise appearance at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican lawmaker to date to speak at a major crypto event.

美国参议员蒂姆·斯科特 (RS.C.) 周五出人意料地出席在田纳西州纳什维尔举行的比特币 2024 会议，成为迄今为止在重大加密货币活动中发言的级别最高的共和党议员。

Scott, who is up for reelection this year and is also among those who have run for the Republican presidential nomination, took the stage with U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), a crypto advocate who has introduced legislation to make bitcoin a strategic reserve asset.

斯科特今年将竞选连任，也是竞选共和党总统提名的人之一，他与美国参议员辛西娅·鲁米斯（怀俄明州共和党人）一起上台，辛西娅·鲁米斯是一位加密货币倡导者，他提出了立法，使比特币成为一种加密货币。战略储备资产。

The senator, who is the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, argued that the government should “make it easy” for the crypto industry to innovate in the U.S.

这位参议员是参议院银行委员会的共和党领袖，他认为政府应该“让加密行业在美国的创新变得容易”

“We have to get rid of the folks who are in the way,” he said, speaking alongside Lummis and lambasting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler as a crypto-policy roadblock. “Chairman Gensler, lord have mercy … Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back, no more, no more, no more.”

他与 Lummis 一起发言，并痛斥美国证券交易委员会主席加里·詹斯勒 (Gary Gensler) 是加密货币政策的障碍。 “詹斯勒主席，上帝怜悯……上路吧，杰克，别再回来了，不再，不再，不再。”

Before Friday, Scott, who's been among those running for the Republican presidential nomination this year, had been relatively quiet on crypto issues, even as Democrats on the committee – such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) – became outspoken critics of the industry.

在周五之前，今年竞选共和党总统提名的斯科特在加密货币问题上一直相对安静，尽管委员会中的民主党人——例如参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（马萨诸塞州民主党人）——成为了直言不讳的批评者。行业。

His potential for grabbing the chairman gavel on the Senate Banking panel next year repeatedly came up during his time on stage with Lummis, and he said that if it happened, he'd make sure her legislation gets a prompt vote, “setting bitcoin free here at home.”

在与鲁米斯一起上台期间，他多次提到明年他有可能在参议院银行委员会上担任主席，他表示，如果发生这种情况，他将确保她的立法得到迅速投票，“让比特币在这里自由”在家里。”

Lummis has reportedly been pushing recently for a bill that would call for the Federal Reserve to hold some bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. She didn't get into the topic during her appearance on Friday, though many at the event hope former President Donald Trump mentions that idea when he's set to appear at the conference on Saturday.

据报道，鲁米斯最近一直在推动一项法案，要求美联储持有一些比特币作为战略储备资产。她在周五出席会议时没有进入这个话题，尽管活动中的许多人希望前总统唐纳德·特朗普在周六出席会议时提及这个想法。

“The innovations of Bitcoin are now becoming more clear in the U.S. Senate, and it's also becoming more clear who wants to protect the innovation and who wants to regulate it,” Lummis said.

Lummis 表示：“比特币的创新现在在美国参议院变得更加清晰，谁想要保护创新、谁想要监管它也变得更加清晰。”

The senators took the stage soon after Michael Saylor, executive chairman of software firm MicroStrategy (MSTR), the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, advocated that the U.S. should aim to acquire 4 million BTC to boost its Treasury and build its financial strength. He said only one or two nations will have an opportunity to enjoy what he described as the token's massive future growth to that extent.

比特币最大的企业持有者软件公司 MicroStrategy (MSTR) 的执行主席 Michael Saylor 主张美国应该以收购 400 万比特币为目标，以增加其国库并增强其财务实力。不久之后，参议员们就上台了。他表示，只有一两个国家有机会享受他所描述的代币未来的巨大增长。

“Bitcoin is not the solution to all our problems,” Saylor said. “It is the solution to half our problems.”

“比特币并不能解决我们所有的问题，”塞勒说。 “它可以解决我们一半的问题。”

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood also praised the notion of a strategic bitcoin reserve for the U.S.

ARK Invest 首席执行官 Cathie Wood 也赞扬了美国战略比特币储备的概念

“If they do it in the right way, meaning this is not an instrument of monetary policy at all, but it simply goes on our balance sheet … this could be transformational,” she said.

“如果他们以正确的方式行事，这意味着这根本不是货币政策工具，而只是出现在我们的资产负债表上......这可能是变革性的，”她说。

The conference also saw Robert F. Kennedy, the independent presidential candidate who has been a longtime supporter of digital assets, promise to make bitcoin a strategic reserve asset if he's elected president (though polls suggest he remains a long-shot candidate). There had reportedly been last-minute discussions with representatives of Vice President Kamala Harris about attending, but she won't be appearing.

会议上，长期支持数字资产的独立总统候选人罗伯特·F·肯尼迪还承诺，如果他当选总统，将使比特币成为战略储备资产（尽管民意调查显示他仍然是一个可能性不大的候选人）。据报道，副总统卡马拉·哈里斯的代表在最后一刻讨论了出席的事宜，但她不会出席。