华盛顿（美联社） - 对加密货币行业的胜利，长期以来一直在寻求主流接受

总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统的加密项目之一的顶级投资者与他在北弗吉尼亚州的豪华高尔夫俱乐部一起用餐

WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems like a triumph for a cryptocurrency industry that has long sought mainstream acceptance: Top investors in one of President Donald Trump's crypto projects are having dinner with him at his luxury golf club in Northern Virginia, on the heels of the Senate advancing key pro-crypto legislation and while bitcoin prices soar.

华盛顿（美联社） - 长期以来一直在寻求主流接受的加密货币行业的胜利：唐纳德·特朗普总统的一项加密货币项目中​​的顶级投资者正在北弗吉尼亚州的豪华高尔夫俱乐部与他共进晚餐，并在参议院的高后弗吉尼亚州的豪华高尔夫球俱乐部晋级了主要的Pro-Crypto立法，而Bitcoin soar则是soar soar的。

But Thursday night's gathering for the 220 biggest investors in the $TRUMP meme coin has raised uncomfortable questions about potentially shadowy buyers using the anonymity of the internet to buy anonymity with the president.

但是，周四晚上在特朗普模因硬币中为220个最大的投资者聚会，这对使用互联网匿名的潜在阴影买家提出了不舒服的问题，可以与总统购买匿名性。

While critics charge that Trump is using the power of the presidency to boost profits for his family business, even some pro-Trump crypto enthusiasts worry that the president's push into meme coins isn't helping their efforts to establish the credibility, stability and legitimacy they had thought his administration would bring to their businesses.

尽管批评家指控特朗普正在利用总统职位来提高他的家族企业的利润，但即使是一些亲特朗普的加密爱好者也担心，总统对模因硬币的推动并没有帮助他们努力建立信誉，稳定和合法性，他们认为他的政府会带给他们的企业。

After feeling unfairly targeted by the Biden administration, the industry has quickly become a dominant political force, donating huge sums to help Trump and crypto-friendly lawmakers. But that's also served to tether the industry — sometimes uncomfortably — to a president who is using crypto as a platform to make money for his brand in unprecedented ways.

在拜登政府不公平地将目标成为目标之后，该行业迅速成为一支占主导地位的政治力量，捐赠了巨额资金来帮助特朗普和对加密货币友好的立法者。但这也使该行业（有时令人不舒服地）促成了一个总统，他将加密货币作为平台，以前所未有的方式为其品牌赚钱。

“It's distasteful and an unnecessary distraction,” said Nic Carter, a Trump supporter and partner at the crypto investment firm Castle Island Ventures, who said the president is “hugging us to death” with his private crypto businesses. “We would much rather that he passes common sense legislation and leave it at that.”

特朗普投资公司Castle Island Island Ventures的特朗普支持者兼合伙人尼克·卡特（Nic Carter）说：“这是令人讨厌的，也是不必要的分散注意力。 “我们宁愿他通过常识立法并将其留下来。”

At the swanky Crypto Ball held down the street from the White House three days before he took office on Jan. 20, Trump announced the creation of the meme coin $TRUMP as a way for his supporters to “have fun.”

在1月20日上任前三天，在他在白宫上班的时髦加密舞会上，特朗普宣布创建了Meme Coin $ Trump，这是他的支持者“玩得开心”的一种方式。

Meme coins are the crypto sector's black sheep. They are often created as a joke, with no real utility and prone to extremely wild price swings that tend to enrich a small group of insiders at the expense of less sophisticated investors.

模因硬币是加密货币部门的黑羊。它们通常是个玩笑，没有真正的实用性，而且很容易出现极端的价格波动，这些价格往往会以少数内部人士的身份以牺牲不太成熟的投资者为代价。

The president's meme coin is different, however, and has a clear utility: access to Trump. The top 25 investors of $TRUMP were invited to a private reception with the president Thursday, with the top four getting $100,000 crypto-themed and Trump-branded watches.

然而，总统的模因硬币是不同的，并且有明确的效用：与特朗普的接触。特朗普的前25名投资者被邀请在周四与总统一起参加私人招待会，前四名获得了100,000美元以加密货币为主题和特朗普品牌的手表。

Trump's meme coin saw an initial spike in value, followed by a steep drop. Its creators, which include an entity controlled by the Trump Organization, have made hundreds of millions of dollars by collecting fees on trades.

特朗普的模因硬币的价值最初是有价值的，随后是陡峭的下降。它的创作者包括由特朗普组织控制的实体，通过收取交易费用赚了数亿美元。

First lady Melania Trump has her own meme coin, and Trump's sons, Eric and Don Jr. — who are running the Trump Organization while their father is president — announced they are partnering with an existing firm to create a crypto mining company.

第一夫人梅拉尼亚·特朗普（Melania Trump）拥有自己的模因硬币，而特朗普的儿子埃里克（Eric）和唐·唐（Don Jr.

The Trump family also holds about a 60 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, a crypto project that provides yet another avenue where investors are buying in and enriching the president's relatives. World Liberty has launched its own stablecoin, USD1. The project got a boost recently when World Liberty announced an investment fund in the United Arab Emirates would be using $2 billion worth of USD1 to purchase a stake in Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.

特朗普家族还持有世界自由金融（World Liberty Financial）约60％的股份，这是一个加密项目，为投资者购买并丰富总统亲戚的途径提供了另一个途径。世界自由推出了自己的Stablecoin USD1。最近，当世界自由宣布在阿拉伯联合酋长国的投资基金将使用价值20亿美元的USD1购买Binance（全球最大的加密货币交易所Binance）的股份时，该项目最近得到了推动。

Stablecoins have values pegged to fixed assets like the U.S. dollar. Issuers profit by collecting the interest on the Treasury bonds and other assets used to back the stablecoins.

Stablecoins具有与美元这样的固定资产挂钩的值。发行人通过收集用于支持稳定币的国库券和其他资产的利息来获利。

Crypto is now one of the most significant sources of the Trump family's wealth.

加密货币现在是特朗普家族财富最重要的来源之一。

"He's becoming a salesman-in-chief," said James Thurber, an American University professor emeritus who has long studied and taught about corruption around the world. "It allows for huge conflicts of interest."

美国大学教授詹姆斯·瑟伯（James Thurber）说：“他正在成为一名首席推销员。” “它允许巨大的利益冲突。”

"I'm a big crypto fan," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One during his recent trip to the Middle East. "I've been that from the beginning, right from the campaign."

特朗普在最近前往中东之旅中告诉记者：“我是一个忠实的加密粉丝。” “从一开始，我就一直从竞选活动开始。”

That wasn't always true. During his first term, Trump posted in July 2019 that cryptocurrencies were "not money" and had value that was "highly volatile and based on thin air."

这并不总是正确的。在他的第一学期中，特朗普于2019年7月发布了加密货币“不是钱”，其价值“高度波动，基于稀薄的空气”。

"Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade," he added then.

他补充说：“不受管制的加密资产可以促进非法行为，包括毒品交易。”

Even after leaving office in 2021, Trump told Fox Business Network that bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency, "seems like a scam."

即使在2021年离开办公室后，特朗普告诉福克斯商业网络，世界上最受欢迎的加密货币比特币“似乎是一个骗局”。

Trump began to shift during a crypto event at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in May 2024, receiving assurances that industry backers would spend lavishly to get him reelected. Another major milestone came last June, when Trump attended a high-dollar fundraiser at the San Francisco home of David Sacks.

特朗普在2024年5月在佛罗里达州的Mar-A-Lago俱乐部举行的加密赛事中开始转变，并保证了行业支持者将大量花费以使他当选。去年6月，特朗普在旧金山戴维·萨克斯（David Sacks）的家中参加了一场高价筹款活动，这是去年6月的另一个主要里程碑。

He further warmed to the industry weeks later, when Trump met at Mar-a-Lago with bitcoin miners. The following month, he addressed a major crypto conference in Nashville, promising to make the U.S. the "crypto capital of the planet."

几周后，当特朗普与比特币矿工在Mar-a-Lago见面时，他进一步加入了行业。第二个月，他在纳什维尔举行了一次重大加密会议上，承诺将美国成为“地球的加密之都”。

Those close to Trump, including his sons and billionaire

那些靠近特朗普的人，包括他的儿子和亿万富翁