加密騙局：唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）稱加密貨幣為“等待發生的災難”

早在2021年，唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）稱加密貨幣為“等待發生的災難”和“騙局”。需要一個人認識一個，對嗎？

Donald Trump's administration has been open about its enthusiasm for cryptocurrency. Last year, as Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, he was a vocal critic of Bitcoin and other digital currencies.

唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的政府對其對加密貨幣的熱情開放。去年，當特朗普在白宮競選第二任期時，他是比特幣和其他數字貨幣的聲音批評者。

"It’s a disaster waiting to happen. Set up by hedge funds, and other pişies, to fleece money from the fools who pour in. A total scam!" Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.

“這是一場等待發生的災難。靠樹籬基金和其他皮什斯（Pişies）設立，從倒入的傻瓜那裡羊毛。完全騙局！”特朗普在他的真相社交平台上的帖子中寫道。

However, Trump may have changed his mind about the “scam” as a result of the millions of dollars that flowed into his campaign coffers from industry donors. To the delight of these donors, Trump promised to make the United States the cryptocurrency capital of the world. He also talked about creating a strategic reserve of Bitcoin.

但是，由於數百萬美元流入了行業捐助者的競選庫中，特朗普可能改變了對“騙局”的想法。為了這些捐助者，特朗普答應使美國成為世界的加密貨幣之都。他還談到了創建比特幣戰略儲備。

After he won the election, Trump received over $11 million in contributions to his inaugural committee from the crypto industry. It’s a hallmark of pyramid scams that only the people at the very top reap the benefits, and Trump has put himself at the very apex of the ziggurat in order to rake in millions for his posse and for himself.

在贏得選舉之後，特朗普獲得了加密貨幣行業的就職委員會的貢獻超過1100萬美元。這是金字塔騙局的標誌，只有最高的人民才能獲得好處，而特朗普將自己放在了Ziggurat的最高點上，以便為自己的姿勢和他自己賺數百萬人。

Consider the saga of $TRUMP.

考慮一下特朗普的傳奇。

Three days before his inauguration, the $TRUMP meme coin debuted. Meme coins are usually based on an Internet meme and are “typically characterized by their volatile nature.” Well, that sounds like a good fit for Trump! Indeed, after he promoted the coin on his social media accounts, its value surged astronomically.

在他就職典禮前三天，$特朗普的模因硬幣首次亮相。模因硬幣通常基於互聯網模因，並且“通常以它們的揮發性特徵”。好吧，這聽起來很適合特朗普！的確，在他在社交媒體帳戶上推廣硬幣後，其價值在天文學上飆升。

Some of the biggest winners in this naked money grab were the firms that launched the coin and profited from the transaction fees, which netted them as much as $100 million in the first two weeks. One of those firms was CIC Digital, which is owned by…Trump himself.

這筆赤裸裸的錢中的一些最大贏家是推出硬幣並從交易費中獲利的公司，在頭兩週內，他們賺了多達1億美元。其中一家公司是CIC Digital，該公司由……特朗普本人擁有。

Like all financial operations characterized by irrational exuberance, the value of $TRUMP soon plummeted. Indeed, over 800,000 investor accounts lost a total of $2 billion. Of course, they’re not the only Trump supporters who are suffering from buyer’s remorse. Even the stock market, which initially cheered Trump’s election, is having a serious hangover, a swing in mood not very different from $TRUMP’s trajectory.

就像所有以非理性繁榮為特徵的金融業務一樣，特朗普的價值很快就會下降。實際上，超過80萬個投資者帳戶損失了20億美元。當然，他們並不是唯一遭受買家re悔的特朗普支持者。即使是最初為特朗普大選加油的股票市場，也有嚴重的宿醉，情緒的搖擺與特朗普的軌跡並沒有很大不同。

$TRUMP’s deep dive notwithstanding—or perhaps because of the success of this scam—crypto remains an essential part of Trump's economic plans. And Trump is not the only far-right leader who has dabbled in scamming the population with crypto. Argentina’s Javier Milei is now dealing with the aftermath of a corruption scandal associated with $LIBRA, a meme coin he initially supported and which left 10,000 investors over $250 million poorer. El Salvador is still reeling from Nayib Bukele’s crypto obsession, which cost his country $60 million when Bitcoin tanked a couple years ago—not to mention all the Salvadoran energy and natural resources that Bitcoin mining has absorbed.

$特朗普的深度潛水（或者也許是因為這場騙局的成功）仍然是特朗普經濟計劃的重要組成部分。特朗普並不是唯一一個涉足用加密貨幣騙人的人口的極端領導人。阿根廷的哈維爾·米利（Javier Milei）現在正在處理與$ libra相關的腐敗醜聞的後果，$ libra是他最初支持的模因硬幣，並使10,000個投資者損失了超過2.5億美元的窮人。埃爾·薩爾瓦多（El Salvador）仍在納耶布·布克爾（Nayib Bukele）的加密迷戀中脫穎而出，幾年前比特幣跌倒時，他的國家耗資6000萬美元，更不用說比特幣採礦吸收的所有薩爾瓦多能源和自然資源。

Two years ago, I explained how cryptocurrencies function like pyramid scams. Last year, I discussed the environmental consequences of crypto.

兩年前，我解釋了加密貨幣如何像金字塔騙局一樣起作用。去年，我討論了加密貨幣的環境後果。

Now I want to dig a little deeper into the politics of crypto: how Trump and his far-right allies are using these digital currencies as a strategy to rig the rules of the game in their favor.

現在，我想更深入地研究加密政治：特朗普和他的極右翼盟友如何使用這些數字貨幣作為一種策略來挖掘遊戲規則的有利。

The Mechanisms of Theft

盜竊的機制

To understand how crypto scams work, you need to know about “sniping” and “rug-pulling.”

要了解加密騙局的工作方式，您需要了解“狙擊”和“地毯”。

When a new crypto product is launched, whether it’s a meme coin or a non-fungible token, a select group of speculators place a big buy to push the value higher. If enough of these “snipers” exit at the same time, the value drops, providing the snipers with short-term profits and leaving a lot of other investors holding the (empty) bag.

當推出新的加密產品（無論是模因硬幣還是不可殺死的代幣）時，一組精選的投機者將大買入以更高的價格推動該價值。如果這些“狙擊手”中的足夠多同時退出，則價值下降，為狙擊手提供短期利潤，並留下許多其他拿著（空）包的投資者。

Of course, it helps to know in advance about a new product launch so that you can line up your bots and your AI to execute high-volume and high-speed trades—and your coordinated exit from the stage. In another context, you might call this “insider trading.”

當然，事先了解新產品的發布有助於您可以對機器人和AI排列，以執行高批量和高速交易，以及從舞台上進行協調的退出。在另一種情況下，您可以稱之為“內部交易”。

The orchestrated sale of the crypto product is known as the “rug pull.” It can be sudden, as was the case with $TRUMP. Or it can take place over a longer period of time in what used to be known as the “long con.”

加密產品精心策劃的銷售稱為“地毯拉力”。可能是突然的，就像$ trump一樣。或者它可以在較長的時間內發生，以曾經被稱為“長騙局”。

The rug pull sometimes relies on the services of a celebrity. Let’s take a brief look at the case of Javier Milei in Argentina to understand how this works.

地毯拉力有時依賴於名人的服務。讓我們簡要介紹一下阿根廷的哈維爾·米利（Javier Milei）的案例，以了解這是如何工作的。

Enter Milei

進入麥莉

Argentine President Javier Milei is, to say the least, a heterodox economist. He pledged to cut government spending as a way of reining in inflation. He fired 30,000 government workers, eliminated government subsidies, and halted many public works projects. No surprise that Milei and his infamous chainsaw served as the inspiration for Musk and DOGE.

至少可以說，阿根廷總統哈維爾·米利（Javier Milei）是異教徒的經濟學家。他承諾將政府支出削減，以此作為通貨膨脹的一種方式。他解雇了30,000名政府工作人員，取消了政府補貼，並停止了許多公共工程項目。麥莉和他臭名昭著的電鋸是馬斯克和門檻的靈感並不奇怪。

Inflation in Argentina has indeed fallen, from nearly 300 percent to around 8

阿根廷的通貨膨脹確實已經下降，從近300％到8個