陶（Tao

陶（Tao

Digital Currency Group (DCG) founder Barry Silbert is known for his interest in cryptocurrency and his investments in various blockchain projects. Among the startups that DCG has invested in is Bittensor, an AI-focused blockchain.

数字货币集团（DCG）创始人Barry Silbert以对加密货币的兴趣和对各种区块链项目的投资而闻名。 DCG投资的初创公司是以AI为重点的区块链Bittensor。

However, a recent discussion on X, formerly Twitter, brought to light the tension between supporters of bitcoin (BTC) and those of other cryptocurrencies, like Bittensor’s native token TAO.

但是，最近关于X（以前是Twitter）的讨论揭示了比特币（BTC）支持者与其他加密货币（例如Bittensor的本地令牌Tao）之间的紧张关系。

It started with author and bitcoin supporter Parker Lewis calling out Silbert and presenter of The Journey Man podcast, Raoul Pal, for what he described as "affinity scam" in a recent post.

它始于作家和比特币支持者帕克·刘易斯（Parker Lewis）在最近的一篇文章中呼唤西尔伯特（Silbert）和《旅程人物播客》（Raoul Pal）的演讲者拉乌尔·帕尔（Raoul Pal）。

According to Lewis, the pair had been promoting Bittensor and TAO in an attempt to scam people.

根据刘易斯的说法，两人一直在宣传比坦索尔和道，以骗人。

To which Silbert responded:

西尔伯特回应的：

“calling $TAO a scam is such a lazy attack. do better.”

“将$ tao称为骗局是如此懒惰。做得更好。”

A Grayscale Investments, one of Digital Currency Group’s subsidiaries, runs a Bittensor Trust that currently has around $8 million in assets under management. It also has a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (BTC) ( ETF) GBTC with $16.6 billion.

数字货币集团的子公司之一的灰度投资公司运营了一项Bittensor Trust，目前拥有约800万美元的资产管理。它还拥有一个现货比特币交易所交易基金（BTC）（ETF）GBTC的166亿美元。

What is TAO?

什么是陶？

Silbert sparked the bitcoiners' ire by comparing Bittensor to the Bitcoin blockchain.

西尔伯特（Silbert）将比廷森（Bittensor）与比特币区块链进行比较，激发了比特币的愤怒。

“It’s just like bitcoin, there was a white paper that turned into code then launched and it has the same token economics,” he said on the podcast.

他在播客上说：“就像比特币一样，有一张白皮书变成了代码，然后发行了代码，并且具有同样的代币经济学。”

While there are some similarities to BTC in that TAO’s supply is capped at 21 million tokens and it goes through block reward halving events, there are also stark differences in terms of the project’s ethos and use case.

尽管与BTC有一些相似之处，因为Tao的供应限制为2100万个令牌，并且经历了奖励减半的事件，但该项目的精神和用例也存在明显的差异。

Bittensor is a decentralized network that merges blockchain technology with machine learning. It was designed to become a peer-to-peer AI market, where users can share and monetize AI models.

Bittensor是一个分散的网络，将区块链技术与机器学习相结合。它旨在成为点对点AI市场，用户可以在其中共享和通过AI模型获利。

Bitcoin was spawned out of the Libertarian cypherpunk era and designed primarily as a peer-to-peer payment method that avoided government-issued currency. In recent years has also emerged a store of value, becoming a mainstay on company balance sheets to mitigate rising inflation.

比特币被从自由主义者的Cypherpunk时代中产生，主要是作为避免政府发行货币的点对点支付方法设计的。近年来，还出现了价值存储，成为公司资产负债表的中流tay柱，以减轻通货膨胀的上升。

The TAO token was released two years ago and has experienced extreme volatility, rising to above $700 on two occasions in 2024 alone. It also crashed to around $200 both times. It was trading recently around $339.

Tao令牌是两年前发布的，并且经历了极端波动，仅在2024年就两次上升到700美元以上。两次也撞到了200美元左右。它最近交易约339美元。

Bitcoin, meanwhile, has risen from $22,000 since the start of 2023 to as high as $109,000 in January. While it’s had its ups and downs, they’re not as marked as the plunges typically seen across the altcoin market. Bitcoin is currently priced around $90,000 with a market cap about $1.8 trillion. TAO has a market cap around $2.98 billion, according to data on CoinMarketCap.

同时，比特币从2023年初以来的22,000美元上升到一月份的高达109,000美元。虽然它的起伏，但它们的标志性不像山寨币市场中常见的暴跌。比特币目前的价格约为90,000美元，市值约为1.8万亿美元。根据CoinMarketCap的数据，Tao的市值约为29.8亿美元。