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上週,納許維爾市中心變成了一場狂歡節,數千人參加了比特幣 2024 大會。最熱情的與會者穿著比特幣橙色或「讓美國再次偉大」的紅色——正如色輪所證實的那樣,兩者並沒有太大不同。
Last week, downtown Nashville transformed into a carnival as thousands of people descended on the Bitcoin 2024 conference. The most enthusiastic attendees wore bitcoin orange or “Make America great again” red – which, as the color wheel confirms, are not all that different.
上週,納許維爾市中心變成了一場狂歡節,數千人參加了比特幣 2024 大會。最熱情的與會者穿著比特幣橙色或「讓美國再次偉大」的紅色——正如色輪所證實的那樣,兩者並沒有太大不同。
Bitcoin has been around since 2009, and the conference since 2019, but 2024 marked the first year that two US presidential candidates would give keynote addresses: Robert F Kennedy Jr, a longtime bitcoin fan, and Donald Trump, who announced that he was pro-bitcoin in May after years of calling it a “scam” and “disaster”. The excitement was palpable: the way bitcoiners saw it, they had transformed into a voting bloc.
比特幣自2009 年以來就已存在,會議自2019 年就已存在,但2024 年標誌著兩位美國總統候選人發表主題演講的第一年:比特幣的長期粉絲小羅伯特·F·肯尼迪(Robert F Kennedy Jr) 和宣布支持比特幣的唐納德·川普(Donald Trump)。人們的興奮是顯而易見的:在比特幣支持者看來,他們已經轉變為一個投票集團。
Marshall Beard, COO of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, even claimed in his remarks that a candidate’s cryptocurrency stance would influence the vote of seven in 10 US crypto-owners. Notably, a 2023 Pew Research Center survey found that just 17% of US adults have ever bought cryptocurrency, and most of them men under 50.
加密貨幣交易所 Gemini 營運長 Marshall Beard 甚至在演講中聲稱,候選人的加密貨幣立場將影響美國十分之七的加密貨幣所有者的投票。值得注意的是,皮尤研究中心 2023 年的一項調查發現,只有 17% 的美國成年人曾經購買過加密貨幣,其中大多數是 50 歲以下的男性。
I flew out to Nashville on Saturday for the last day of Bitcoin 2024, when Trump was scheduled to speak, to see the spectacle first hand. I’d spent the previous two days watching the conference live stream, which featured speeches from RFK Jr and Edward Snowden, and talking-head panels opining about bitcoin.
週六,我飛往納許維爾參加比特幣 2024 年的最後一天,川普計劃在當天發表講話,親眼目睹這一奇觀。前兩天我一直在觀看會議直播,其中包括小 RFK 和愛德華·斯諾登的演講,以及專家小組對比特幣的看法。
In past years, bitcoiners insisted their enthusiasm for the coin was apolitical. Now, they insist that Joe Biden and Democrats waged a four-year war on cryptocurrency, forcing many to support the policies of RFK Jr and Trump. That said, I didn’t meet a single recent convert from Biden. Those I spoke with at the conference had a very similar style of politics to Trump supporters broadly: they insisted that they were under attack from elites, that the US was on the verge of tyranny or collapse. They’re determined to win the culture war, which they believe they’re losing.
在過去的幾年裡,比特幣愛好者堅稱他們對比特幣的熱情與政治無關。現在,他們堅稱喬·拜登和民主黨對加密貨幣發動了長達四年的戰爭,迫使許多人支持小羅伯特·甘迺迪和川普的政策。也就是說,我沒有遇到任何一個最近從拜登皈依的人。我在會議上交談過的人與川普的支持者有著非常相似的政治風格:他們堅稱自己受到了精英的攻擊,美國正處於暴政或崩潰的邊緣。他們決心贏得文化戰爭,但他們認為自己正在輸掉這場戰爭。
And like Trump himself, they insisted that they’d been falsely branded as criminals.
和川普本人一樣,他們堅稱自己被錯誤地貼上了罪犯的標籤。
Trump sells gold sneakers, T-shirts blazoned with his mugshot, and strange NFTs that depict him as various cowboy-superhero-maverick characters. It seems he and bitcoiners share a love of anything gaudy.
川普出售金色運動鞋、印有他照片的 T 卹,以及將他描繪成各種牛仔、超級英雄和特立獨行角色的奇怪 NFT。看來他和比特幣愛好者都喜歡任何花哨的東西。
As I waited in a long, snaking line for Trump to take the stage on Saturday, I took in the campy aesthetic of the conference. A gallery area featured dozens of art pieces starring Pepe, a cartoon frog made famous by far-right internet users, that I haven’t seen since maybe 2018; an artist could even paint you as a Pepe-style frog on site. One booth sold a device that warms water using excess heat from bitcoin mining rigs; a young woman in a bikini stood in a small inflatable pool, showering herself with the bitcoin water. Other booths advertised “bitcoin panties”, or terrifying paintings of January 6-style events led by the left, or information about “a divine feminine Christ motherboard”. And, in celebration of a new political alignment, I kept seeing Maga-style red hats that said “BITCOIN MADE IN AMERICA”. (There were many actual Maga hats as well.)
週六,當我排著長長的隊伍等待川普上台時,我感受到了這次會議的做作美學。畫廊區展出了數十件以佩佩(Pepe) 為主角的藝術作品,佩佩是一隻因極右翼互聯網用戶而聞名的卡通青蛙,大約從2018 年起我就再也沒有見過它了;藝術家甚至可以在現場把你畫成佩佩式的青蛙。一個攤位出售一種利用比特幣挖礦設備餘熱加熱水的設備;一名穿著比基尼的年輕女子站在一個小型充氣泳池中,用比特幣水為自己洗澡。其他攤位宣傳“比特幣內褲”,或由左派主導的 1 月 6 日風格的恐怖畫作,或有關“神聖女性基督主板”的訊息。而且,為了慶祝新的政治聯盟,我不斷看到馬加風格的紅色帽子,上面寫著「比特幣美國製造」。 (還有很多真正的瑪伽帽子。)
The room was gigantic, and dimly lit by the neon orange glow of the stage. David Bailey of Bitcoin Magazine announced that about 8,000 people were packed into it, though I’d put the number closer to 2,000. They were, at a conservative guess, 85% male. For the first time in my life, I saw lines to the men’s restroom dozens of people long, and no line for the women’s. I sat nestled in a sea of Trump supporters, including one man in a Maga hat who wore an ear bandage in solidarity with Trump’s attempted assassination. A few times, the crowd broke out into “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” chants. Trump took the stage about 90 minutes late.
房間很大,舞台上霓虹橙色的光芒使房間顯得昏暗。比特幣雜誌的 David Bailey 宣布,裡面大約有 8,000 人,但我認為這個數字接近 2,000 人。保守估計,他們中 85% 是男性。我有生以來第一次看到男廁排了幾十個人的隊,而女廁卻沒有人排隊。我坐在川普支持者的海洋中,其中包括一名戴著馬加帽的男子,他戴著耳朵繃帶,以聲援川普的暗殺行動。有幾次,人群爆發出「川普!王牌!王牌!頌歌。川普遲到了大約90分鐘才上台。
Like most people, I’ve seen probably a million videos of Trump rallies. It’s markedly different to watch Trump in person. You can feel the air shift when he changes topics and thousands rush to match his performed anger, joy, solemnity or silliness. Shortly after somberly discussing the presumed Hezbollah attack on Israel, for instance, Trump excitedly called out the most recognizable attenders at Bitcoin 2024, including Kid Rock, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jake Paul and Laura Loomer. (He didn’t mention “Hawk Tuah girl”, who took a picture with RFK Jr on Friday, or Anthony Scaramucci, his former press secretary, also in attendance.)
和大多數人一樣,我看過大約一百萬個川普集會的影片。親眼目睹川普的感受明顯不同。當他改變話題時,你可以感覺到空氣的變化,成千上萬的人湧來配合他表現出的憤怒、喜悅、莊嚴或愚蠢。例如,在嚴肅地討論了真主黨對以色列的襲擊後不久,川普就興奮地召集了比特幣 2024 年最知名的與會者,包括 Kid Rock、Billy Ray Cyrus、Jake Paul 和 Laura Loomer。 (他沒有提到週五與 RFK Jr 合影的“Hawk Tuah 女孩”,也沒有提到也在場的他的前新聞秘書 Anthony Scaramucci。)
Trump deftly gauged what his audience wanted to hear: that they were very, very smart. He obliged, repeatedly referencing the “geniuses” and “very smart” “high-IQ individuals” in the room.
川普巧妙地判斷他的聽眾想聽到什麼:他們非常非常聰明。他答應了,並反覆提到房間裡的「天才」和「非常聰明」「高智商的人」。
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