川普新任「加密貨幣委員會」主任博·海因斯與 Meme Coin 恢復共和國有聯繫

當唐納德·川普在聖誕節前幾天宣布他正在任命一位前大學橄欖球運動員和失敗的國會候選人來領導白宮「加密貨幣委員會」時，就連加密貨幣兄弟也感到困惑。

Bo Hines, a former college football player and failed congressional candidate, will lead a White House “crypto council,” despite having no experience in the crypto industry.

博·海因斯（Bo Hines）是一名前大學橄欖球運動員，也是落選的國會候選人，儘管他在加密行業沒有經驗，但他將領導白宮「加密貨幣委員會」。

Hines, 29, received support in one of his election campaigns from FTX campaign finance fraudster Ryan Salame.

29 歲的海因斯在一次競選活動中得到了 FTX 競選財務詐欺者 Ryan Salame 的支持。

More recently, a group overseen by his company teamed up with the makers of a Trump-themed meme coin called Restore the Republic that launched with a storm of scam accusations.

最近，由他的公司監管的一個組織與川普主題的模因硬幣的製造商合作，名為“恢復共和國”，該硬幣推出後引發了一系列詐騙指控。

Hines will serve as executive director of the newly created Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, which is chaired by the far more prominent venture capitalist David Sacks.

海因斯將擔任新成立的總統數位資產顧問委員會的執行董事，該委員會由更著名的風險投資家大衛·薩克斯擔任主席。

Hines’s experience with the Trump-themed crypto venture raises questions about whether his appointment could signal looser restrictions on the fringe “meme coins” as the council sets out to deregulate more mainstream crypto projects backed by the likes of Sacks.

海因斯在以川普為主題的加密貨幣企業方面的經歷引發了人們的疑問，隨著該委員會著手放鬆對薩克斯等人支持的更多主流加密貨幣項目的監管，他的任命是否意味著對邊緣「模因硬幣」的限制更加寬鬆。

Until now, Hines’s ties to the crypto industry escaped scrutiny, in part because Trump announced his appointment in the days before Christmas. His relationship with Restore the Republic has not been previously reported.

到目前為止，海因斯與加密貨幣行業的關係都沒有受到審查，部分原因是川普在聖誕節前幾天宣布了他的任命。他與恢復共和國的關係此前從未有過報導。

Crypto Connections

加密連線

Trump announced Hines’s selection on Truth Social on December 22 by lauding Hines’s educational background — Yale University, Wake Forest University law school — instead of his crypto chops.

12 月 22 日，川普在 Truth Social 上宣布了海因斯的入選，並稱讚海因斯的教育背景——耶魯大學、維克森林大學法學院——而不是他的加密貨幣天賦。

In his home state of North Carolina, Hines may be best known for 2022 and 2024 runs for Congress, in two different districts, as well as a stint as a wide receiver at North Carolina State University before he transferred to Yale.

在他的家鄉北卡羅來納州，海因斯最出名的可能是 2022 年和 2024 年在兩個不同選區競選國會議員，以及在轉學到耶魯大學之前在北卡羅來納州立大學擔任外接手。

Despite Trump’s failure to tout them, however, Hines’s links to the crypto world were out in the open for anyone to notice.

然而，儘管川普未能吹捧它們，但海因斯與加密貨幣世界的聯繫是公開的，任何人都會注意到。

As the CEO of the right-wing news organization Today Is America, which he ran since March 2023, Hines provided a quote for an October 23 announcement about a partnership with a Trump-themed meme token called Restore the Republic.

作為自2023 年3 月以來擔任右翼新聞機構《今日美國》的首席執行官，海因斯提供了10 月23 日關於與名為“恢復共和國”的特朗普主題模因代幣合作的聲明的引述。

Those were frantic, final days of a campaign that still seemed like it might come down to the wire. According to the press release, an organization called Students for Trump would partner with the meme coin organization to hold events, community forums, and voter outreach programs in swing states.

那是一場瘋狂的競選活動的最後幾天，看起來仍然可能會進入最後階段。根據新聞稿，一個名為「川普學生」的組織將與迷因硬幣組織合作，在搖擺州舉辦活動、社區論壇和選民外展計畫。

Students for Trump and Today Is America are deeply intertwined. The student group is overseen by Today In America, according to a LinkedIn posting by a former top official at the company and a separate post on a crypto news clearinghouse about the Restore the Republic coin. And the student group’s homepage is a vertical of the Today Is America website. According to its Instagram bio, Students for Trump is “powered” by Today Is America.

川普和《今日美國》的學生緊密相連。根據該公司一位前高級官員在 LinkedIn 上發布的帖子以及加密貨幣新聞交換所上關於「恢復共和國」硬幣的單獨帖子，該學生團體由「今日美國」監管。而學生團體的主頁則是垂直的Today Is America網站。根據其 Instagram 簡介，學生支持川普是由《今日美國》「支持」的。

In the announcement of the Restore the Republic meme coin, Hines referred to the Students for Trump partnership in the first person.

在「恢復共和國迷因硬幣」的公告中，海因斯以第一人稱提到了「學生支持川普」合作關係。

“We are excited to join forces with Restore the Republic to amplify our outreach and ensure voters across the country are equipped with the knowledge and tools they need to make informed decisions,” Hines said in a press release.

海因斯在一份新聞稿中表示：“我們很高興能與恢復共和國合作，擴大我們的影響力，並確保全國各地的選民具備做出明智決定所需的知識和工具。”

The press release made it sound as if a trio of civic-minded organizations were coming together around a love of Trump. But in a conversation on X Spaces around the same time, an adviser for the Restore the Republic “team” acknowledged a more contentious recent history involving Trump.

這份新聞稿聽起來好像是三個具有公民意識的組織圍繞著對川普的熱愛聚集在一起。但大約在同一時間，在 X Spaces 上的一次對話中，「恢復共和國」「團隊」的一名顧問承認，最近一段涉及川普的爭議更大。

In early August, Restore the Republic launched as a token at the same time that Trump’s sons were teasing the imminent creation of an official Trump crypto project.

8月初，「恢復共和國」作為一種代幣推出，與此同時，川普的兒子們正在戲弄即將創建一個官方的川普加密計畫。

Meme coins operate on the edges of a wider, infamously freewheeling cryptocurrency world. The most famous is Dogecoin, a dog-themed token with a shiba inu as its logo that seems to rise and fall on the whims of Elon Musk.

Meme 幣在一個更廣闊、臭名昭著的隨心所欲的加密貨幣世界的邊緣運行。最著名的是狗狗幣，這是一種以狗為主題的代幣，其標誌是一隻柴犬，似乎隨著伊隆馬斯克的一時興起而興衰。

The new Restore the Republic token leaned heavily into Trump iconography on its website, featuring the famous photo of Trump raising his arm after a July assassination attempt and promising rewards for collectors in the form of custom Trump handguns and a dinner with Donald Trump Jr.

新的「恢復共和國」代幣在其網站上很大程度上傾向於川普的肖像，其中包括川普在七月的暗殺企圖後舉起手臂的著名照片，並承諾為收藏者提供定制川普手槍和與小唐納德·川普共進晚餐的獎勵。

Speculators began snapping up the token, which had the same name as a phrase that Trump uttered on the campaign trail, on the hopes that it had the ex-president’s official blessing.

投機者開始搶購該代幣，該代幣與川普在競選中所說的一句話同名，希望它能得到前總統的官方祝福。

An X post from Ryan Fournier, the founder of Students for Trump, helped fan the flames. “Rumor has it that the official trump coin is out…called Restore the Republic,” Fournier posted, months before the partnership between the coin and the student group was announced.

「川普學生」組織創辦人 Ryan Fournier 的 X 貼文火上加油。 “有傳言稱，官方的川普硬幣已經問世了……名為“恢復共和國”，”福尼爾在該硬幣與學生團體宣布合作的幾個月前發帖稱。

The market capitalization of the token soared to $155 million within hours of its launch. Later that day, however, it fell just as fast when Trump’s son Eric said the idea that the token was affiliated with his family “absolutely false.”

該代幣的市值在推出後數小時內飆升至 1.55 億美元。然而，當天晚些時候，當川普的兒子埃里克表示該代幣與他的家族有聯繫的想法「絕對是錯誤的」時，它的下跌速度同樣快。

In the meantime, however, someone snapped up and sold enough of the Trump-themed token to net a cool $4 million.

然而與此同時，有人搶購並出售了足夠的川普主題代幣，淨賺了 400 萬美元。

It was just another dramatic rise and fall in the wild west world of meme coins, which are notorious for hype-driven boom and bust cycles.

這只是迷因幣狂野西部世界的另一個戲劇性的興衰，迷因幣因炒作驅動的繁榮和蕭條週期而臭名昭著。

As social media users tossed accusations that someone had used the token for a classic “pump and

隨著社交媒體用戶指責有人使用該代幣進行經典的“拉高和炒作”