特朗普媒体和技术集团将筹集约25亿美元用于投资比特币

特朗普媒体和技术集团将筹集约25亿美元以投资比特币

President Donald Trump’s social media company is raising about $2.5bn to invest in Bitcoin as it looks to diversify revenue streams with a push into the financial sector.

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统的社交媒体公司正在筹集约25亿美元的投资比特币，因为它希望通过推动金融领域的收入来分散收入。

Trump Media and Technology Group Inc is selling $1.5bn in stock at its last closing price and $1bn in convertible notes priced at a 35 percent premium, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

它在周二的一份声明中说，特朗普媒体和技术集团公司将以最后一次收盘价出售15亿美元的股票，可转换票据的售价为35％。

The company, which is planning to launch retail investment products, said the funds would be used to build a “Bitcoin treasury”.

该公司计划推出零售投资产品，该公司表示，这些资金将用于建造“比特币财政部”。

The Bitcoin will be held on Trump Media’s balance sheet alongside existing cash and short-term investments totalling $759m at the end of the first quarter.

比特币将在第一季度末在特朗普媒体的资产负债表上与现有现金和短期投资总计7.59亿美元一起举行。

Crypto platforms Anchorage Digital and Crypto.com will provide custody for the Bitcoin holdings.

Crypto平台锚定数字和Crypto.com将为比特币控股提供监护权。

“We view Bitcoin as an apex instrument of financial freedom,” Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes said, hailing the move as a “big step forward” in the company’s plan to acquire “crown jewel assets consistent with America First principles”.

特朗普媒体首席执行官德文·纳尼斯（Devin Nunes）说：“我们将比特币视为财务自由的最高工具。”这一举动是该公司收购“符合美国第一原则一致的Crown Jewel资产”计划中的“向前迈出的一大步”。

Shares of the company behind Truth Social, a streaming and social media platform, were down 6 percent in early trading on Tuesday.

在周二早些时候交易中，流媒体和社交媒体平台Truth Social背后的公司股票下跌了6％。

Trump Media has been exploring potential mergers and acquisitions as it aims to diversify into financial services.

特朗普媒体一直在探索潜在的合并和收购，因为它旨在使金融服务多样化。

Last month, it reached a binding agreement to launch retail investment products, including cryptocurrency and exchange-traded funds aligned with Trump’s policies.

上个月，它达成了具有约束力的协议，以推出零售投资产品，包括加密货币和与特朗普政策保持一致的交易所交易资金。

The Trump family, long rooted in skyscrapers and golf clubs, has quickly opened multiple beachheads in cryptocurrencies, garnering hundreds of millions of dollars. Its other crypto forays include Trump nonfungible tokens (NFTs), a meme coin, a stake in a newly formed Bitcoin producer called American Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency exchange World Liberty Financial.

特朗普家族长期以来一直扎根于摩天大楼和高尔夫俱乐部，迅速在加密货币中开设了多个海滩头，获得了数亿美元。它的另一个加密货币包括特朗普不可饮用的代币（NFTS），一种模因硬币，新成立的比特币生产商的股份，称为美国比特币和加密货币交换世界自由金融。

But the crypto push has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers, including Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, who last month asked the US securities regulator about its plans to supervise exchange-traded funds (ETFs) due to be launched by Trump Media.

但是，加密推动者对包括民主党参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）在内的立法者进行了审查，后者上个月询问了美国证券监管机构的计划，其计划由特朗普媒体推出，其计划是监督交易所交易基金（ETF）的计划。

Trump, who referred to cryptocurrencies in his first term as “not money”, citing their volatility and a value “based on thin air”, has since shifted his views on the technology.

特朗普以其第一任期为“非金钱”的加密货币，理由是他们的波动和“基于稀薄的空气”的价值，此后就改变了他对技术的看法。

During an event at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida during his presidential campaign in May 2024, Trump received assurances from the crypto industry backers present that they would spend lavishly to get him re-elected.

在2024年5月的总统竞选期间，在他在佛罗里达州的Mar-a-Lago俱乐部举行的一次活动中，特朗普得到了加密货币行业支持者的保证，他们将大力花钱以使他再次当选。

Last week, Trump rewarded 220 of the top investors in one of his other cryptocurrency projects, the $Trump meme coin, with a swanky dinner at his luxury golf club in northern Virginia, spurring accusations that the president was mixing his duties in the White House with personal profit.

上周，特朗普在他的其他加密货币项目之一，$ trump Meme Coin中奖励了220名顶级投资者，在他位于北弗吉尼亚州北部的豪华高尔夫俱乐部举行了时髦的晚餐，这激发了指控，刺激了总统在白宫将他的职责与个人利润相结合。