特朗普的新加密货币政策向前迈出了一步，但缺少一个关键要素

共和党全国代表大会批准了唐纳德·特朗普总统的共和党新纲领。绝大多数是标准的共和党票价

The Republican National Convention has approved former President Donald Trump's new platform for the Republican Party. The vast majority of the platform is standard Republican fare, with one big exception: a pro-innovation crypto policy.

共和党全国代表大会批准了前总统唐纳德·特朗普的共和党新纲领。该平台的绝大多数内容都是标准的共和党票价，但有一个很大的例外：支持创新的加密货币政策。

Trump’s commitment to defend Americans’ rights to mine Bitcoin (BTC), self-custody digital assets, and transact freely are welcome additions to the platform. However, one piece was sorely missing: a commitment to protect the developers of decentralized projects from government interference and the threat of criminal prosecution.

特朗普承诺捍卫美国人开采比特币（BTC）、自我托管数字资产和自由交易的权利，这是该平台值得欢迎的补充。然而，有一点却严重缺失：保护去中心化项目开发商免受政府干预和刑事起诉威胁的承诺。

The Biden administration has been hostile to crypto companies like Ripple and Coinbase, but it has treated the developers of privacy-preserving technologies far worse. President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has repeatedly prosecuted software developers for doing little more than building products that some malicious actors happened to use for nefarious purposes.

拜登政府一直对 Ripple 和 Coinbase 等加密货币公司怀有敌意，但对隐私保护技术开发商的待遇却要差得多。乔·拜登总统的司法部曾多次起诉软件开发商，因为他们只不过是开发了一些恶意行为者碰巧用于邪恶目的的产品。

Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the administration’s treatment of Roman Storm and Roman Semenov. The two are among the developers behind Tornado Cash, a fully decentralized protocol for private transactions on Ethereum (ETH).

这一点在政府对罗曼·斯托姆和罗曼·谢苗诺夫的处理中表现得最为明显。两人是 Tornado Cash 的开发者之一，Tornado Cash 是一种完全去中心化的以太坊 (ETH) 私人交易协议。

After the Tornado Cash protocol was used by bad actors — most notably the North Korean-backed Lazarus Group — to launder hundreds of millions of dollars worth of ETH, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned the protocol.

在 Tornado Cash 协议被不良行为者（最著名的是朝鲜支持的 Lazarus Group）用来洗钱价值数亿美元的 ETH 后，美国财政部批准了该协议。

While that decision was controversial, it was a far more reasonable response than what happened next. The Department of Justice indicted Storm and Semenov for conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit sanctions violations, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.

尽管这一决定存在争议，但这是一个比接下来发生的事情更为合理的回应。司法部起诉斯托姆和谢苗诺夫串谋洗钱、串谋违反制裁规定以及串谋经营未经许可的汇款业务。

Semenov has yet to be brought into custody on these charges, but Storm is currently facing trial in New York.

谢苗诺夫尚未因这些指控而被拘留，但斯托姆目前正在纽约接受审判。

The prosecutions of Storm and Semenov are fraught on many levels. The prosecution inaccurately portrays the defendants' actions as executing transactions when Storm and Semenov only enabled individuals to execute their own transactions.

对斯托姆和谢苗诺夫的起诉涉及多个层面。当 Storm 和 Semenov 仅允许个人执行自己的交易时，检方错误地将被告的行为描述为执行交易。

Also, as Coin Center explained in an amicus brief in defense of Storm, publishing open-source software is protected speech under the First Amendment, and sanctions law should not apply.

此外，正如 Coin Center 在 Storm 辩护之友陈述中所解释的那样，根据第一修正案，发布开源软件是受保护的言论，制裁法不应适用。

On a more fundamental level, prosecuting developers like Storm and Semenov for when their tools are misused by others sets a dangerous precedent that could stifle innovation in the realm of privacy-preserving technologies.

从更根本的层面上来说，当 Storm 和 Semenov 等开发者的工具被他人滥用时对其进行起诉，开创了一个危险的先例，可能会扼杀隐私保护技术领域的创新。

Privacy-preserving tools like Tornado Cash are not inherently malicious; they can be used for both legitimate and illicit purposes. Punishing developers for potential misuse by others disregards the broader benefits these tools provide.

像 Tornado Cash 这样的隐私保护工具本质上并不是恶意的。它们可用于合法和非法目的。惩罚开发人员可能被其他人滥用的行为忽视了这些工具提供的更广泛的好处。

Technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, and homomorphic encryption provide robust methods to protect personal data without compromising functionality. These technologies ensure that sensitive information remains confidential, even in the face of sophisticated cyber threats.

零知识证明、安全多方计算和同态加密等技术提供了在不影响功能的情况下保护个人数据的强大方法。即使面对复杂的网络威胁，这些技术也能确保敏感信息的机密性。

It is for these reasons that the U.S. government has supported the development of privacy-preserving technologies such as Tor and Signal for decades.

正是出于这些原因，美国政府几十年来一直支持 Tor 和 Signal 等隐私保护技术的发展。

By targeting individuals for the mere act of writing and publishing privacy-preserving, open-source software, the government is sending a chilling message to developers: innovation in privacy and security is a potential liability.

通过仅针对编写和发布隐私保护开源软件行为的个人，政府向开发者发出了令人心寒的信息：隐私和安全方面的创新是一种潜在的责任。

Developers may now hesitate to create tools that enhance privacy and security for fear of legal repercussions, stalling advancements in essential areas such as digital privacy and financial autonomy.

由于担心法律后果，开发人员现在可能会犹豫是否创建增强隐私和安全的工具，从而阻碍数字隐私和财务自主等重​​要领域的进步。

With the addition of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to the Republican ticket, it’s clear that the Trump campaign is casting itself as pro-innovation and pro-crypto.

随着俄亥俄州参议员 JD Vance 加入共和党候选人名单，特朗普竞选团队显然正在将自己塑造为支持创新和支持加密货币的形象。

Trump has railed against the Biden administration’s handling of the crypto industry in recent months and is scheduled to address a Bitcoin conference in Nashville on July 29. For his part, Vance has not left his Silicon Valley days totally behind him.

特朗普近几个月来一直批评拜登政府对加密行业的处理方式，并计划于 7 月 29 日在纳什维尔举行的比特币会议上发表讲话。就万斯而言，他并没有完全忘记他在硅谷的日子。

He owns a substantial amount of Bitcoin and has worked on legislation during his time in the Senate that aims to bring regulatory clarity to the industry.

他拥有大量比特币，并在参议院任职期间致力于立法，旨在使该行业的监管更加明确。

While nothing is certain, all signs seem to indicate that a second Trump administration would have far better crypto-related policy than the current Biden administration, which has failed to provide much certainty or assurance to the crypto industry.

尽管没有什么是确定的，但所有迹象似乎都表明，第二届特朗普政府将拥有比现任拜登政府更好的加密货币相关政策，后者未能为加密货币行业提供太多确定性或保证。

It is great to see that a second Trump administration would champion innovation and provide a more welcoming environment for the crypto industry. A second Trump administration should certainly defend the rights of Bitcoin miners, self-custodians, and people wishing to transact freely.

很高兴看到特朗普第二届政府将支持创新并为加密货币行业提供更受欢迎的环境。第二届特朗普政府当然应该捍卫比特币矿工、自我托管人和希望自由交易的人的权利。

But, if a second Trump administration truly wants to champion innovation and “end Democrats’ unlawful and unAmerican Crypto crackdown,” it must also commit to defending the rights of the people building the tools that allow all of these things to happen.

但是，如果特朗普第二届政府真正想要支持创新并“结束民主党非法和非美国式的加密货币镇压”，它还必须致力于捍卫那些构建允许所有这些事情发生的工具的人们的权利。

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