這是特朗普偉大的美國加密騙局的一部分

根據唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的說法，美國必須對加拿大徵收經濟探索的關稅，這是一個簡單的理由

This is part of Trump’s Great American Crypto Scam, a series about the catastrophic collision between the second Trump administration and the wild world of cryptocurrency. Read it all here.

這是特朗普偉大的美國加密騙子的一部分，該系列介紹了第二屆特朗普政府與加密貨幣世界之間的災難性碰撞。在這裡閱讀全部。

According to Donald Trump, there’s a simple reason that the United States has had to impose economy-exploding tariffs against Canada: fentanyl. Although only a soup can’s worth of the unusually deadly synthetic opioid has been discovered by agents at the U.S.–Canada border so far this year, the president insists that a “massive” amount of the drug is being trafficked into America from the north—and that until this possibly imaginary flow of “poison” is halted, punitive measures against imports will continue.

根據唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的說法，美國必須對加拿大徵收經濟探索的關稅：芬太尼。儘管今年迄今為止，美國與加拿大邊境的特工發現，只有一湯可以是致命的致命合成阿片類藥物的價值，但總統堅持認為，從北部販運了“大量”該藥物的毒品，直到這種可能的“毒藥”可能會持續下來，直到這種可能的“毒藥”一直持續下來，懲罰性的措施將繼續進行。

The same, he says, goes for tariffs on Mexico. Trump’s long-standing belief is that fentanyl is smuggled into the U.S. largely by undocumented migrants, and that this flow will, accordingly, be cut off if the southern border is “secured.” His tariffs, he says, have the goal of forcing the Mexican state to take measures like deploying its national guard to intercept migrant “caravans.”

他說，同樣，墨西哥的關稅也是如此。特朗普長期以來的信念是，芬太尼在很大程度上被無證件移民偷運到美國，因此，如果南部邊界被“固定”，這種流程將被切斷。他說，他的關稅的目的是迫使墨西哥國家採取措施，例如部署國民警衛隊以攔截移民“大篷車”。

But this premise doesn’t hold up either. It’s true that fentanyl generally enters the U.S. from the south, but when law enforcement discovers the drug being smuggled, it’s almost always in the possession of American citizens attempting to cross through official ports of entry. It’s rarely found, by contrast, by border agents apprehending migrants who are attempting to enter the country undetected through the desert. And given how many of these individuals have been taken into custody in recent years—literally millions of them—we’d almost certainly know by now if they were a major vector for fentanyl trafficking.

但是這個前提也不能忍受。的確，芬太尼通常從南方進入美國，但是當執法部門發現該毒品被走私時，幾乎總是在美國公民試圖跨越官方進入港口的美國公民。相比之下，很少有邊境特工逮捕了試圖進入該國未經沙漠的國家的移民。鑑於近年來已有多少個人被拘留（從字面上數百萬），我們幾乎可以肯定知道他們是否是芬太尼販運的主要媒介。

In other words, blindsiding the Canadian aluminum industry and building a wall on the border might not be the most effective ways to reduce the amount of fentanyl that ends up inside the U.S. One that might have promise, though, is regulation and scrutiny of cryptocurrency.

換句話說，使加拿大鋁業工業蒙蔽並在邊界上建造隔離牆可能不是減少最終在美國內部可能有希望的芬太尼量的最有效方法，而是對加密貨幣的規定和審查。

Why is that? Well, the point of cryptocurrency1 is that it’s not controlled by governments or banks—the gatekeepers of the traditional financial system. Its more idealistic proponents believe that’s a good thing, because it’s not subject to manipulation by self-interested elites. Its less idealistic users realized immediately that the whole “not monitored by governments or banks” aspect makes crypto platforms a great medium for transactions that involve weapons, terrorism, stolen money, and hard drugs like fentanyl.

這是為什麼？好吧，加密貨幣的重點是它不受政府或銀行的控制，即傳統金融體系的守門人。它更理想的支持者認為這是一件好事，因為它不受自私的精英操縱。它的理想主義者不太理想的用戶立即意識到，整個“未經政府或銀行監控”方面使加密平台成為涉及武器，恐怖主義，被盜的錢和芬太尼等硬藥的交易的絕佳媒介。

Various official reports and journalistic investigations have documented how the system works. Fentanyl’s “precursor” chemicals are largely manufactured in China, then shipped to Mexico, where they’re combined in laboratories controlled by cartels before being moved north. When the cartels pay their Chinese suppliers, they increasingly do so by using cryptocurrency.

各種官方報告和新聞調查已經記錄了該系統的工作原理。芬太尼的“前體”化學物質在中國主要生產，然後運往墨西哥，在墨西哥將其合併在由卡特爾控制的實驗室中，然後再向北移動。當卡特爾向中國供應商支付供應商時，他們越來越多地使用加密貨幣。

Some of the crypto exchanges2 in which these transactions have been conducted, according to watchdog groups and law enforcement, include major platforms like Tron, Binance, and the infamous, now-defunct drug marketplace Silk Road. (Tron did not respond to multiple requests for comment by Slate. Binance has admitted in legal filings that it was culpable for failing to prevent illicit activity, and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 of facilitating illegal commerce in federal court.)

根據監督組織和執法部門的說法，其中一些加密交易所進行了這些交易，其中包括Tron，Binance和臭名昭著的，現已滅絕的藥品市場絲綢之路等主要平台。 （Tron沒有回應Slate的多個置評請求。Binance在法律文件中承認，它因未能防止非法活動而受到責備，而Silk Road創始人Ross Ulbricht在2015年被定罪，他因在聯邦法院促進非法商業而被定罪。）

Another thing those platforms and their proprietors have in common are connections to Donald Trump, in his roles as both the president of the United States and an active participant in the crypto business.

這些平台及其所有人的共同點是與唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的聯繫，他是美國總統和加密貨幣業務的積極參與者。

Trump wasn’t always a fan of crypto. As recently as 2021, he was referring to Bitcoin3, the most well-known type of cryptocurrency, as “a scam.” At the time, some elected Republicans were crypto boosters, but others were involved in bipartisan efforts to regulate the industry.

特朗普並不總是是加密貨幣的粉絲。直到2021年，他都指比特幣3（最著名的加密貨幣類型）是“騙局”。當時，一些當選的共和黨人是加密貨幣助推器，但其他人則參與了兩黨制來規範該行業的努力。

As Trump, 77, is said to have enjoyed meeting younger, hipper people, he realized that crypto was popular in the so-called manosphere of right-leaning podcasters, video-game streamers, and mixed martial arts enthusiasts through which he sought to reach Generation Z and Millennial male voters. In seeking the support of these crypto enthusiasts, he made big promises about promoting the industry. He pledged, among other things, to enshrine a “national Bitcoin reserve” and to replace Securities and Exchange Commission4 Chair Gary Gensler, who had been trying to apply the same laws to crypto companies that already apply to firms trading in conventional securities.

據說現年77歲的特朗普很喜歡與年輕的，上升的人見面，他意識到加密貨幣在所謂的右傾播種機，視頻遊戲彩帶和混合武術愛好者的所謂Manospher中很受歡迎，他試圖通過這些愛好者來接觸Z一代和千禧年男性選民。在尋求這些加密愛好者的支持時，他對促進該行業做出了巨大的承諾。他承諾要賦予“國家比特幣儲備”，並取代證券和交易委員會4主席加里·金斯勒（Gary Gensler），後者一直試圖將同樣的法律應用於已經向常規證券交易的公司申請的加密貨幣公司。

Trump has followed through on those promises. His pending nominee to replace Gensler, Paul Atkins, is a longtime member of a “cryptocurrency advocacy organization” called the Token Alliance. His top adviser on A.I. and crypto issues, an associate of Elon Musk’s named David Sacks, is himself a major crypto investor. And last fall, Trump and his family joined forces with a former colon-cleanse salesman named Chase Herro to launch a crypto business called World Liberty Financial5, which issues its own token (i.e., unit of cryptocurrency) called WLFI.

特朗普遵循了這些諾言。他未決的提名人取代Gensler Paul Atkins是一個名為“代幣聯盟”的“加密貨幣倡導組織”的長期成員。他的AI和Crypto問題的頂級顧問是Elon Musk的David Sacks的合夥人，他本人是主要的加密投資者。去年秋天，特朗普和他的家人與一位名叫Chase Herro的前Colon-Cleanse推銷員聯手開展了名為World Liberty Financial5的加密貨幣業務，該業務發行了自己的代幣（即，加密貨幣單位），稱為WLFI。

Thus

因此