特朗普的加密貨幣“打開了閘門進行欺騙”，專家警告說，數字冒名頂替者試圖以他的名義兌現

唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）稱加密貨幣為“一個騙局”，在一月份的第二次​​就職典禮之前發起了自我命名且高度爭議的模因硬幣後發起了數十億美元的理論財富。

Former president Donald Trump made a theoretical fortune of billions after launching his own meme coin, named after himself, ahead of his second inauguration in January.

前總統唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）在一月份的第二次​​就職典禮之前發起了自己的模因硬幣，以自己的名字命名。

But an army of digital imposters have since tried to cash in on the president’s name and online presence to make their own crypto killing, a report in the Financial Times has revealed.

但是，《金融時報》上的一份報告顯示，一群數字冒名頂替者試圖以總統的名字和在線形象兌現，以殺死自己的加密貨幣。

Hundreds of “copycat and spam coins” were uploaded to Trump’s official wallet in cyberspace, with creators sending more than 700 new meme coins to the wallet in recent weeks, according to the report.

該報告稱，數以百計的“模仿和垃圾郵件硬幣”被上傳到了特朗普在網絡空間的官方錢包中，最近幾週，創作者將700多個新的模因硬幣送往錢包。

Many of the coins were named after Trump or his family members – but none of them had any formal connection.

許多硬幣以特朗普或他的家人的名字命名 - 但它們都沒有任何正式聯繫。

Speculators could be easily duped by the names, which made it seem like the fake coins were allied to the real $Trump cryptocurrency, experts said.

專家說，投機者很容易被這些名字欺騙，這似乎使假硬幣與真正的$ trump加密貨幣相關。

The genuine coin has seen a precipitous collapse in value and those buying the fakes risked the digital equivalent of being taken to the cleaners, they added.

他們補充說，真正的硬幣的價值崩潰了，那些購買假貨的人冒著將數字等效的危險帶給清潔劑的風險。

Eswar Prasad, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an economics professor at Cornell University, told the FT that by launching his own coin, Trump had “opened the floodgates to deception … and at a minimum to rampant speculation”.

布魯金斯學會的高級研究員，康奈爾大學的經濟學教授埃斯瓦爾·普拉薩德（Eswar Prasad）告訴英國銀行（FT），特朗普（Trump）“開放了自己的硬幣，“打開了欺騙的閘門……至少要猖rampthers”。

“Ordinary investors buying into fake or copycat coins just exposes them to enormous risk,” he said.

他說：“購買偽造或模仿硬幣的普通投資者只會暴露出巨大的風險。”

More than 200 of the fake coins had Trump family names, including Official Trump and Official Melania.

偽造的硬幣中有200多個有特朗普的姓氏，包括官方特朗普和官方梅拉尼亞。

The first lady launched her own official meme coin, $Melania, within days of her husband, which analysts say immediately halved the value of $Trump and sparked a slide that has continued since.

第一夫人在丈夫的幾天之內發起了自己的官方模因硬幣$ Melania，分析師說，立即將$ trump的價值減半，並引發了此後持續的幻燈片。

The names of four of Trump’s five children were also popular among the copycats, with his youngest son, Barron, accounting for 30, his daughter Ivanka next with 26, and older sons Don and Eric Jr with 14 between them.

特朗普的五個孩子中有四個孩子的名字在模仿者中也很受歡迎，他的小兒子巴倫（Barron）佔30歲，他的女兒伊万卡（Ivanka）接下來有26歲，大兒子唐（Don）和埃里克（Eric Jr）與他們之間的14歲。

Other new cryptocurrency found in the Trump wallet featured names including “Elon” and “Musk”, referring to the world’s richest man and presidential acolyte currently taking a wrecking ball to US federal institutions as a designated “special government employee”.

特朗普錢包中發現的其他新加密貨幣的名字包括“埃隆”和“馬斯克”，指的是世界上最富有的人和總統侍從目前將破壞球送給美國聯邦機構，稱為“特別政府僱員”。

Six of the fake coins used the same name and symbol as Trump’s official currency, while others were more obvious scams, including Official Hitler and Poo Coin.

六個假硬幣中的六個使用了與特朗普的官方貨幣相同的名稱和符號，而其他人則更明顯，包括官方的希特勒和便便硬幣。

The scammers were so keen to get in on the act that fakes began appearing almost immediately after the real thing, the FT said.

英國國民銀行說，騙子非常熱衷於採取行動，以至於假貨在真實事物之後幾乎立即開始出現。

The first copycat coin was “minted” within 29 minutes of the announcement of the official Trump coin on his Truth Social platform on 18 January, while a speculator ahead of the game deposited the first Melania coin into the Trump digital wallet more than a day before the authentic version was launched.

1月18日，在他的真相社交平台上宣布官方特朗普硬幣後的29分鐘內，第一個模仿硬幣被“鑄造”，而比賽前的一名投機者將第一枚梅拉尼亞硬幣放入了特朗普數字錢包中。啟動了真實的版本。

Trump’s dalliance with the crypto market, meanwhile, has drawn strong criticism from ethics watchdogs, economists and some industry insiders.

與此同時，特朗普對加密貨幣市場的打擊使人們受到了倫理監管機構，經濟學家和一些行業內部人士的強烈批評。

Prasad told the Guardian last month: “The Trump meme coin represents the intersection of Trump’s grifting tendencies and his administration’s embrace of cryptocurrencies, along with his dismissive attitude toward government regulation.”

普拉薩德（Prasad）上個月對《衛報》（Guardian）說：“特朗普模因硬幣代表了特朗普的敏感趨勢和政府對加密貨幣的擁抱的交匯，以及他對政府監管的不屑一顧的態度。”