川普推出自己的加密貨幣，一種名為 $TRUMP 的迷因幣

Fresh off President Donald Trump’s second inauguration a couple of days prior, last Friday saw the launch of his own cryptocurrency, a meme coin aptly named $TRUMP.

幾天前，唐納德·川普總統剛剛舉行第二次就職典禮，上週五推出了他自己的加密貨幣，一種被恰當地命名為 $TRUMP 的模因硬幣。

Amid the ceremonial fanfare, the coin’s value skyrocketed by over 300 percent over the weekend. As of Thursday, the market capitalization of $TRUMP is hovering around $7 billion with only 200 million of the 1 billion tokens yet released. The remaining 800 million tokens are owned by Fight Fight Fight and CIC Digital, an affiliate of the Trump Organization. At the coin’s current value, Trump has a total stake exceeding $30 billion, or over three times his suspected net worth of $7.5 to $10 billion, though that’s all on paper, of course.

在儀式的喧囂聲中，這枚硬幣的價值在周末飆升了 300% 以上。截至週四，$TRUMP 的市值徘徊在 70 億美元左右，10 億枚代幣中僅發行了 2 億枚。剩餘的 8 億枚代幣歸 Fight Fight Fight 和川普集團旗下的 CIC Digital 所有。以該代幣目前的價值計算，川普持有的總股份超過 300 億美元，是他疑似淨資產 7.5 至 100 億美元的三倍多，當然，這只是紙面上的數字。

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Meme coins often disappear as quickly as they rise in value, frequently leaving hoodwinked investors—rather than, say, Trump—holding the bag. Perhaps that’s why $TRUMP’s website has a clear disclaimer declaring the coin an artwork.

迷因幣往往隨著價值的上漲而消失得很快，常常讓受蒙蔽的投資者——而不是川普——承擔責任。也許這就是為什麼 $TRUMP 的網站有明確的免責聲明，宣布硬幣是藝術品。

“TrumpMemes are intended to function as an expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol ‘$TRUMP’ and the associated artwork, and are not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or investment of any type,” it reads.

「TrumpMemes 的目的是表達對『$TRUMP』符號和相關藝術品所體現的理想和信念的支持和參與，而不是投資或投資的主題機會、投資合約或任何類型的投資，」它寫道。

(A cryptocurrency is typically labeled a meme coin if it has no intrinsic function but originates from an internet meme, like DOGE coin. In contrast, the coin Ether is used to trade on the blockchain platform Ethereum, which allows users to build smart contracts, among a host of other applications.)

（如果加密貨幣沒有內在功能，而是源自互聯網模因，例如DOGE 幣，則通常被標記為模因幣。相比之下，以太幣用於在區塊鏈平台以太坊上進行交易，該平台允許用戶建立智能合約，以及許多其他應用程式。

In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Georg Bak, a digital art advisor and co-founder of The Digital Art Mile art fair, noted the disclaimer and declared that Trump had issued “the most expensive artwork ever created in the world.” The meme coin, he went on, is valued far higher than Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi—the generally accepted highest valued artwork, which sold for $450 million in 2017. Because $TRUMP was classified as art by the issuer, Bak continued, it is therefore an “artwork co-owned by thousands of coin holders and can be regarded as a tokenized artwork.”

數位藝術顧問兼數位藝術英里藝術博覽會聯合創始人喬治·巴克(Georg Bak) 在周二的LinkedIn 帖子中指出了這一免責聲明，並宣稱川普發行了“世界上有史以來最昂貴的藝術品” 。他接著說，迷因幣的價值遠高於列奧納多·達·芬奇的《救世主》——這是公認的最高價值藝術品，該藝術品在2017 年以4.5 億美元的價格售出。品」。

“Each holder of the $TRUMP is a legit co-owner of the currently most valuable artwork in the world,” Bak stated. “It is almost grotesque that art is once again serving as a proxy for carrying out otherwise illegal activities in a clean manner. While most types of coins are under strict supervision, art and therefore all meme coins enjoy artistic freedom, a fundamental right of humanity.”

巴克表示：“川普美元的每個持有者都是目前世界上最有價值藝術品的合法共同所有者。” 「藝術再次充當以乾淨的方式進行非法活動的代理人，這幾乎是怪誕的。雖然大多數類型的硬幣都受到嚴格監管，但藝術以及所有模因硬幣都享有藝術自由，這是人類的一項基本權利。

After seeing Bak’s post, ARTnews asked the advisor why Trump might have categorized the coin as art. Bak speculated that the decision likely has less to do with Trump’s secret desire to be an artist than the legal protections such a declaration can afford the issue.

看到巴克的貼文後，ARTnews 詢問顧問為什麼川普可能會將這枚硬幣歸類為藝術品。巴克推測，這項決定可能與川普成為藝術家的秘密願望無關，而是與此類聲明所能提供的法律保護有關。

“Labeling [$TRUMP] as art can provide certain protections, avoid legal challenges, or redefine its purpose in ways that align with legal or regulatory frameworks,” Bak said. “One of the biggest legal challenges for cryptocurrencies and meme coins is being classified as a security under financial regulations like the Howey Test [a standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1946]. If a coin is deemed a security, it must comply with strict regulations that require registration, disclosures, and compliance measures. By declaring a meme coin as art or as a cultural product, its creators can argue that it is not an investment vehicle but a collectible or a creative expression.”

「給[$川普]貼上藝術標籤可以提供一定的保護，避免法律挑戰，或以符合法律或監管框架的方式重新定義其目的，」巴克說。 「加密貨幣和迷因幣面臨的最大法律挑戰之一是根據豪伊測試（美國最高法院於 1946 年制定的標準）等金融法規將其歸類為證券。如果代幣被視為證券，則必須遵守要求註冊、揭露和合規措施的嚴格法規。透過將模因硬幣宣佈為藝術品或文化產品，其創造者可以辯稱，它不是一種投資工具，而是一種收藏品或創意表達。

Andres Guadamuz, a reader in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sussex, similarly told ARTnews that classifying a meme coin like $TRUMP as art “is usually a legal workaround, a clever ploy if you will.”

薩塞克斯大學智慧財產權法專業的讀者安德烈斯·瓜達穆斯(Andres Guadamuz) 也向ARTnews 表示，將像$TRUMP 這樣的模因幣歸類為藝術品「通常是一種合法的解決方法，如果你願意的話，這也是一個聰明的策略。

“Some meme coins projects try to avoid being labeled as securities, so they slip in language describing their tokens as ‘art’ or ‘collectibles.’ That way, they can argue that they’re selling a digital artwork rather than offering an investment product,” Guadamuz said. “While regulators in the new administration may not come knocking, this ensures that projects can be future-proof. People can sell and trade art with practically no regulation, and this is easier to do because of NFTs—tokens as art have a precedent that was left mostly unregulated. But if you’re selling a token as an investment vehicle,

「有些迷因幣計畫試圖避免被貼上證券的標籤，因此他們用語言將其代幣描述為『藝術品』或『收藏品』。這樣，他們就可以聲稱自己是在銷售數位藝術品，而不是提供投資產品。 「雖然新政府的監管機構可能不會來敲門，但這確保了該計畫能夠面向未來。人們幾乎可以在沒有監管的情況下出售和交易藝術品，而這更容易做到，因為有了 NFT——藝術代幣有一個基本上不受監管的先例。但如果你將代幣當作投資工具出售，