特朗普和加密有什么共同点

美国总统涉足“模因硬币”的企业通过旧的金融秩序攻入了深层的犬儒主义。由安德鲁·奥洛夫斯基（Andrew Orlowski）。

The US president's foray into 'meme coins' taps into a deep public cynicism with the old financial order.

美国总统涉足“模因硬币”的企业通过旧的金融秩序攻入了深层的犬儒主义。

Andrew Orlowski

安德鲁·奥洛夫斯基

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Since the Romans, emperors have stamped their image on coins. Now, so has Donald Trump in the shape of his personal ‘meme coins’, one of the strangest artefacts in crypto finance.

自从罗马人以来，皇帝将其形象盖在硬币上。现在，唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的形状也是如此，他的个人“模因硬币”是加密货币中最奇怪的文物之一。

Also known as ‘altcoins’ or ‘shitcoins’, meme coins are digital tokens that have ‘little to no value or no immediate, discernible purpose’, in the words of Investopedia. A new coin can be created with a couple of clicks, with its value entirely dependent on market confidence. There’s literally nothing there.

用Investopedia的话说，Meme Coins也被称为“ Altcoins”或“ Shitcoins”，是数字代币，几乎没有价值或没有直接，可见的目的”。可以单击几下创建新硬币，其价值完全取决于市场信心。实际上什么都没有。

Trump was highly critical of cryptocurrency in his first term, but recent actions reveal the extent to which his attitude has shifted. During the 2024 election, he campaigned on the promise to make the US the ‘bitcoin superpower of the world’. He even announced plans for a federal ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’ in March. On 18 January, days before his inauguration, the president formally entered the ‘shitcoin’ market (now there are some words you thought you’d never read), with new coins called $TRUMP and $MELANIA, named after the first lady.

特朗普对他的第一个任期高度批评加密货币，但最近的行动揭示了他的态度改变的程度。在2024年大选期间，他竞选承诺使美国成为“世界比特币超级大国”。他甚至在三月份宣布了联邦“战略比特币储备”计划。在他就职典礼的1月18日，总统正式进入了“狗屎币”市场（现在有一些您以为您从未读过的话），新硬币称为$ trump $ trump和$梅拉尼亚，以第一夫人的名字命名。

Some investors in Trump’s latest business project did very well. Last week, Chainalysis found that 58 wallets had yielded over $1 billion in profits from Trump’s meme coins. But far more people will be ruing their investment. Two days after the launch, the $TRUMP coin was nominally worth $73. At the time of writing, it’s still trading at around $14. As you would expect, many who retained their holding have lost out – last week, it was reported that 764,000 people have now lost money on the investment.

特朗普最新业务项目的一些投资者表现出色。上周，链分析发现，从特朗普的模因硬币中获得了超过10亿美元的利润。但是，越来越多的人会违反他们的投资。推出两天后，特朗普硬币的名义价值73美元。在撰写本文时，它的交易仍在14美元左右。正如您所期望的那样，许多保留自己的股份的人已经丢失了 - 上周，据报道，现在有764,000人在投资上损失了钱。

Either way, ownership of $TRUMP buys access – if you have bought enough. Last month, Trump announced that the 220 biggest holders in the coin will be invited to a ‘private gala’ with him on 22 May. This caused the value of the coin to rise by more than 70 per cent. We now find ourselves with a president lending his name and brand to something that has been compared with a ‘legalised Ponzi scheme’, from which his family benefit significantly.

无论哪种方式，如果您购买了足够多的话，$ Trump的所有权都会购买访问权限。上个月，特朗普宣布，硬币中的220大持有人将于5月22日与他一起参加“私人晚会”。这导致硬币的价值上升了70％以上。现在，我们发现自己与总统的名字和品牌相提并论，将其与“合法的庞氏骗局”相提并论，他的家人从中受益匪浅。

Predictably, this hasn’t gone down well with Trump’s opponents. As 80 per cent of the $TRUMP and $MELANIA coins are owned by ‘Trump-linked entities’, there are accusations that companies are buying the coin simply to peddle influence. Reportedly, Trump’s crypto ventures now represent 40 per cent of his net wealth, or $2.9 billion. And this is set to soar even higher. An Emirati investment firm has announced it will use Trump’s digital coins to transact a $2 billion dollar deal. Democratic senators are now seeking to outlaw Trump’s crypto investments, telling the media that the endeavour is ‘profoundly corrupt’ and a danger to national security.

可以预见的是，这与特朗普的对手并不顺利。由于“特朗普与特朗普的实体”拥有$ trump的80％和$ Melania硬币，因此有指控公司正在购买硬币只是为了兜售影响。据报道，特朗普的加密货币企业现在占其净财富的40％，即29亿美元。而且这将飙升甚至更高。一家阿联酋投资公司宣布，它将使用特朗普的数字硬币来交易20亿美元的交易。民主党参议员现在正在寻求取缔特朗普的加密投资，并告诉媒体，这项工作是“深刻腐败”的，对国家安全构成了危险。

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Should we condemn Trump for cashing in on crypto? Arguably his memecoin isn’t any more outlandish than his threats to annex Canada or plans to reopen Alcatraz. In many ways, the $TRUMP coin is entirely consistent with a character who not only exploits the value of his brand, but is also seemingly indifferent to accusations of vulgarity. Crypto itself often seems to be a giant game in which the players strongly suspect they are being scammed, but don’t particularly care. This is simply a confidence exercise, the type of which the president relishes.

我们应该谴责特朗普兑现加密货币吗？可以说，他的纪念因素并不比他对加拿大吞并或计划重新打开恶魔岛的威胁更古怪。在许多方面，特朗普硬币与一个不仅利用其品牌价值的角色完全一致，而且似乎对庸俗的指控似乎无动于衷。加密本身通常似乎是一款巨大的游戏，玩家强烈怀疑自己被骗子骗了，但并不特别在乎。这只是一种自信的练习，总统喜欢的类型。

Consciously or not, Trump is also tapping into a deep cynicism many feel towards financial markets. Crypto has emerged in recent years as faith in capitalism has declined. Big business is operated by giant platforms and cosy cartels, while ordinary people remain stuck with the financial system that inadvertently engineered the 2008 crash, from which real wages have not recovered. Twelve per cent of British adults have dabbled in crypto finance, according to the UK Treasury – a sure sign of its growing popularity.

不管有意识与否，特朗普也正在利用许多人对金融市场的深刻愤世嫉俗。近年来，随着对资本主义的信仰下降，加密货币已经出现。大型企业是由巨型平台和舒适的卡特尔经营的，而普通百姓仍然陷入无意中设计2008年崩溃的金融体系，实际工资尚未恢复。据英国财政部称，十二％的英国成年人涉足加密货币的财务，这是其日益普及的肯定标志。

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But this shadow financial system is also riddled with crime, from blatant scams to theft. In this way it resembles the 1920s, when the world was also emerging from a pandemic. In that decade, people were tempted into reckless financial speculation on difficult-to-understand schemes, such as exotic financial instruments, land deals and boiler-room scams, which all promised extravagant returns.

但是，从公然的骗局到盗窃，这种影子金融体系也充满了犯罪。这样，它就像1920年代一样，当时世界也从大流行中浮出水面。在那十年中，人们被人们诱使人们对难以理解的计划，例如异国金融工具，土地交易和锅炉房间骗局，这都承诺会带来奢侈的回报。

Crypto has been slammed by critics as ‘financial nihilism’. But when the established financial apparatus has offered so little, who

加密已被批评家抨击为“金融虚无主义”。但是，当既定的财务设备提供的很少