加密貨幣大亨孫宇晨在香港市場大吃620萬美元香蕉

備受爭議的加密貨幣大亨孫宇晨在香港吃價值 620 萬美元的香蕉時笑容滿面，這一奇觀引發了人們對數位資產的關注

Crypto mogul Justin Sun ate a $6.2 million banana in Hong Kong on Friday, putting the spotlight on digital assets once again as the industry tries to keep an historic market rally on track.

週五，加密貨幣大亨孫宇晨在香港吃了價值 620 萬美元的香蕉，在該行業試圖保持歷史性的市場反彈之際，數位資產再次成為人們關注的焦點。

The banana comes from a viral conceptual artwork, titled "Comedian," which is simply a banana duct-taped to a wall. Sun bought the artwork in a Sotheby’s auction last week.

香蕉來自一個名為“喜劇演員”的病毒概念藝術作品，它只是一根用膠帶粘在牆上的香蕉。孫上週在蘇富比拍賣會上買下了這件藝術品。

For Sun, the conspicuous consumption becomes a part of art history, and, as the sculpture’s owner, he has the right to manifest the piece with a new banana. The artwork, like crypto, ultimately derives meaning from an underlying idea, said China-born Sun, who until recently was better known as the target of US Securities and Exchange Commission fraud allegations that he rejects. Bridging memes, crypto and art is “very meaningful,” he said in an interview.

對孫來說，炫耀性消費成為藝術史的一部分，而身為雕塑的主人，他有權利用一根新香蕉來體現這件作品。出生於中國的孫說，這些藝術品就像加密貨幣一樣，最終從一個潛在的想法中獲得意義。 。他在接受採訪時表示，將迷因、加密貨幣和藝術聯繫起來「非常有意義」。

Displays like Sun’s event on Friday, whatever their stated goal, draw eyeballs to a crypto market that lives or dies on momentum and where retail investors have yet to dive into the latest boom with the intensity evident in the pandemic — perhaps reflecting painful memories of how the 2021 bubble quickly burst.

像Sun 週五的活動這樣的展示，無論他們宣稱的目標是什麼，都會吸引人們的注意力到一個加密貨幣市場，這個市場的生死存亡取決於勢頭，而散戶投資者尚未投入到新冠病毒大流行中明顯強度的最新繁榮中——這或許反映了人們對加密貨幣市場的痛苦記憶。

Investors on ‘Sidelines’

投資者“觀望”

“From a retail perspective, interest is clearly growing as trading in Bitcoin has picked up significantly,” said Josh Gilbert, market analyst at eToro. “However, we are yet to see the levels we’ve seen in previous cycles, which signals that we’ve got a wave of retail investors still sitting on the sidelines watching.”

eToro 市場分析師 Josh Gilbert 表示：“從零售角度來看，隨著比特幣交易大幅回升，人們的興趣明顯在增長。” “然而，我們尚未看到前幾個週期的水平，這表明有一波散戶投資者仍在觀望。”

When fear of missing out — FOMO — peaks, the speculative ardor tends to spill from Bitcoin into smaller tokens, or altcoins. But while Bitcoin is on a record-breaking tear and almost hit $100,000 atop President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-crypto agenda, many altcoins are trading below the highs posted three years ago.

當錯過機會的恐懼（FOMO）達到頂峰時，投機熱情往往會從比特幣蔓延到較小的代幣或山寨幣。然而，儘管比特幣在當選總統唐納德·川普的支持加密貨幣議程中創下了破紀錄的紀錄，幾乎達到了 10 萬美元，但許多山寨幣的交易價格仍低於三年前的高點。

Other relevant metrics include South Korea’s Kimchi premium, which compares the cost of Bitcoin there with the offshore price. The premium tends to stretch during trading manias but is currently absent altogether. Elsewhere, a global index of the market for nonfungible tokens — blockchain-based digital collectibles — is languishing at about one-fifth its all-time peak.

其他相關指標包括韓國的泡菜溢價，該指標將韓國的比特幣成本與離岸價格進行比較。在交易狂熱期間，溢價往往會擴大，但目前完全不存在。在其他地方，不可取代代幣（基於區塊鏈的數位收藏品）市場的全球指數目前正處於歷史高峰的五分之一左右。

“Retail FOMO hasn’t returned to 2021 levels,” said Jupiter Zheng, partner at crypto firm HashKey Capital. “Only a portion of altcoins are performing well.”

加密貨幣公司 HashKey Capital 合夥人 Jupiter Cheng 表示：“零售業的 FOMO 尚未恢復到 2021 年的水平。” “只有一部分山寨幣表現良好。”

Some industry participants flag institutional Bitcoin demand as the initial driving force for the $1 trillion jump in the crypto market sparked by Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory. The president-elect’s platform includes a promise of friendlier regulations and the creation of a strategic US Bitcoin stockpile.

一些產業參與者將機構比特幣需求視為川普 11 月 5 日大選勝利引發的加密市場 1 兆美元躍升的最初推動力。這位當選總統的政綱包括承諾實施更友善的監管以及建立美國戰略性比特幣儲備。

FOMO Stirring

FOMO 攪拌

Others argue greater retail-investor engagement is already underway, citing the recent record high of popular altcoin Solana, spiking downloads of crypto exchange apps and proliferating pumps of memecoins on social media.

其他人則認為，更多散戶投資者的參與已經開始，他們列舉了流行的山寨幣 Solana 最近創下的歷史新高、加密貨幣交易應用程序的下載量激增以及社交媒體上 memecoin 的激增。

There are “clear signs that retail investors have returned to the crypto market post-election,” said Caroline Bowler, chief executive officer of digital-asset exchange BTC Markets Pty. A significant number of trading accounts dormant since 2020 and 2021 sprang back to life in November, she said.

數位資產交易所BTC Markets Pty 執行長 Caroline Bowler 表示，「有明顯跡象表明，散戶投資者在選舉後已重返加密貨幣市場」。休眠狀態的大量交易帳戶重新煥發活力。

Sun, 34, is an adviser to the HTX exchange and creator of the Tron blockchain. The SEC has accused Sun of fraud and market manipulation over TRX, a token related to Tron. He has said the lawsuit lacks merit.

Sun，34 歲，是 HTX 交易所的顧問和 Tron 區塊鏈的創建者。美國證券交易委員會 (SEC) 指控 Sun 對與 Tron 相關的代幣 TRX 進行欺詐和市場操縱。他表示該訴訟缺乏依據。

Sun recently made a splash with a $30 million investment in Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto project, praising its potential and denying the move was politically motivated.

Sun 最近向川普的 World Liberty Financial 加密項目投資了 3000 萬美元，引起了轟動，讚揚了該項目的潛力，並否認此舉是出於政治動機。

Trump has vowed to make the US the global home for crypto and plans to undo a Biden administration crackdown sparked by a market rout in 2022 that exposed risky practices and fraudulent activity. Such a backdrop is likely to draw more crypto executives into the limelight.

川普誓言要讓美國成為全球加密貨幣之家，並計劃撤銷拜登政府因 2022 年市場暴跌而引發的打壓行動，這場暴跌暴露了風險行為和詐欺活動。這樣的背景可能會吸引更多加密貨幣主管成為眾人矚目的焦點。

“I’m very optimistic about the Trump administration and their crypto regulation,” said Sun, who has placed a banana on his profile on social media platform X. “They understand crypto a lot more than the past SEC regulation.”

“我對川普政府及其加密貨幣監管非常樂觀，”孫說，他在社交媒體平台 X 上的個人資料上放了一根香蕉。