特朗普通過先令加密貨幣來擠滿他的總統數十億美元

這位前總統及其家人無恥地從他們最喜歡的行業中獲利。

President Trump’s family cryptocurrency meme coins — the $TRUMP and $MELANIA cryptocurrency coins — had a combined market value on Friday of about $6 billion.

特朗普總統的家庭加密貨幣模因硬幣（特朗普$ and Melania加密貨幣硬幣）在周五的總市場價值約為60億美元。

Days before taking the oath of office, Trump announced on his social media platform the creation of the $TRUMP coin, featuring Trump’s image from the July assassination attempt and said: “Join the Trump Community. This is History in the Making!”

在宣誓就職的幾天前，特朗普在他的社交媒體平台上宣布了$特朗普硬幣的創建，其特徵是特朗普在7月的暗殺企圖中的形象，並說：“加入特朗普社區。這就是歷史！”

The $MELANIA coin soon followed.

緊隨其後的是$ Melania硬幣。

Despite no details about the coin’s value, use, or risks, Trump supporters, gamblers, and those wishing to suck up to Trump bought it — sending the coin’s price into the stratosphere. On paper, the Trump family is now several billion dollars richer.

儘管沒有關於硬幣，使用或風險的細節，但特朗普的支持者，賭徒和希望吸引特朗普的人買了它 - 將硬幣的價格寄入了平流層。在紙上，特朗普一家現在更加豐富。

Trump once denounced crypto, but as the crypto industry poured tens of millions of dollars into 2024 campaigns, he changed his mind. Not only did he see the political power of the crypto industry he saw an opportunity to make a pile of money.

特朗普曾經譴責加密貨幣，但是當加密貨幣行業投入到2024年的競選活動中，他改變了主意。他不僅看到了加密貨幣行業的政治力量，而且還看到了賺錢的機會。

He then promised to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet.”

然後，他答應使美國成為“地球的加密首都”。

In September, the Trump family started World Liberty Financial, which they marketed as a platform to facilitate borrowing and lending in digital currencies. (Trump receives a cut of the sales of WLFI, the cryptocurrency associated with the platform.)

9月，特朗普一家開始了世界自由金融，他們將其作為促進數字貨幣借貸和貸款的平台銷售。 （特朗普收到了與該平台相關的加密貨幣的銷售削減。）

Now that he’s taken office, Trump plans to make billions off his presidency by implementing policies that favor crypto.

現在，他已經上任，特朗普計劃通過執行支持加密貨幣的政策來裁員數十億美元。

The truth about crypto

關於加密的真相

Cryptocurrencies serve no useful purpose other than the purchase of other crypto assets, money laundering, extortion and scams. As economist Paul Krugman has said, their market value rests on nothing but “technobabble and libertarian derp.”

除了購買其他加密資產，洗錢，勒索和騙局外，加密貨幣沒有其他有用的目的。正如經濟學家保羅·克魯格曼（Paul Krugman）所說的那樣，他們的市場價值除了“技術摩托車和自由主義者德普”之外。

They also use huge amounts of energy.

他們還使用大量的能量。

And if they infiltrate Wall Street, they could destabilize the entire financial system.

如果他們滲入華爾街，他們可能會破壞整個金融體系的穩定。

The crypto industry has a dubious reputation. Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges, was last year sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud. Changpeng Zhao, founder of a rival exchange, has spent four months locked up for money-laundering.

加密行業享有可疑的聲譽。 FTX的創始人Sam Bankman Fried是世界上最大的加密交易所之一，去年被判處25年徒刑。競爭對手交易所的創始人Changpeng Zhao花了四個月的時間鎖定洗錢。

But the richest people in America with huge power — the oligarchy, including Trump — support cryptocurrencies. Not only can they make a fortune, but crypto advances their long-term aim of shifting financial controls out of a democratically elected system of government and into their own hands.

但是，擁有巨大力量的美國最富有的人 - 包括特朗普在內的寡頭 - 支持加密貨幣。他們不僅可以發財，而且加密貨幣的長期目標是將財務控制從民主當選的政府制度轉移到自己手中。

Trump II and crypto

特朗普二世和加密

Now that he’s president, Trump is actively promoting crypto — reversing Biden’s attempts to prevent the crypto industry from infiltrating Wall Street.

既然他是總統，特朗普正在積極促進加密貨幣 - 扭轉了拜登試圖防止加密工業滲透華爾街的嘗試。

Biden’s tight rules made it prohibitively expensive for banks to hold digital assets on behalf of clients and stopped them from developing their own crypto products, such as stablecoins (tokens pegged to the dollar or other assets).

拜登的嚴格規定使銀行代表客戶持有數字資產並阻止他們開發自己的加密產品（例如stablecoins）（Tokens（Tokens coggge coggge to to Mollar或其他資產）），這非常昂貴。

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a watchdog, stopped dozens of such projects on the basis that it did not know how digital assets ought to be treated in regulatory filings.

一名監管機構聯邦存款保險公司（FDIC）停止了數十個此類項目，因為它不知道該如何在監管文件中對數字資產進行處理。

With Trump, though, banks and the crypto industry are now pushing in the same direction and face little resistance. New and enormously profitable forms of risk-taking are emerging — for a small group of people able to take such risks and able (like the Trump family) to profit off their own crypto products.

然而，隨著特朗普的發展，銀行和加密貨幣行業現在正朝著同一方向前進，幾乎沒有阻力。新的和盈利的冒險形式正在出現 - 對於一小群人來說，能夠承擔這種風險並能夠（例如特朗普家族）獲利的一小部分人都可以從自己的加密產品中獲利。

Trump is putting crypto-friendly people into place at key federal agencies, boosting its prospects. In December, he picked Washington lawyer Paul Atkins, a known crypto booster, to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, America’s main financial regulator.

特朗普正在關鍵聯邦機構將加密友好的人置於其前景。去年12月，他選擇了華盛頓律師保羅·阿特金斯（Paul Atkins），他是一位已知的加密貨幣助推器，主持美國主要的金融監管機構證券交易委員會。

Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission altered its guidance so that financial institutions no longer have to account, on their own balance-sheets, for crypto assets held on behalf of customers. The SEC rolled back accounting guidance that had deterred banks from getting involved with crypto.

上週，美國證券交易委員會更改了指導，因此金融機構不再需要按照自己的資產庫來考慮代表客戶持有的加密資產。 SEC退回會計指導，阻止了銀行參與加密貨幣。

Trump has tapped the venture investor and digital currency enthusiast David Sacks to oversee administration policies on crypto (and artificial intelligence).

特朗普聘請了風險投資者和數字貨幣愛好者戴維·薩克斯（David Sacks），以監督有關加密貨幣（和人工智能）的管理政策。

Then, this past Thursday, Trump issued an executive order committing the Trump administration to “protecting and promoting” the crypto industry:

然後，在過去的星期四，特朗普發布了一項行政命令，承諾特朗普政府“保護和促進”加密貨幣行業：

“The digital asset industry plays a crucial role in innovation and economic development in the United States, as well as our nation’s international leadership. It is therefore the policy of my administration to support the responsible growth and use of digital assets.”

“數字資產行業在美國以及我們國家的國際領導力中在創新和經濟發展中起著至關重要的作用。因此，我政府的政策是支持負責任的數字資產增長和使用。”

The order gives his administration authority to establish a national cryptocurrency stockpile — a stash of digital coins that the crypto industry has spent months lobbying the new administration for because it further legitimizes crypto and adds to the demand for it.

該命令賦予他的政府授權，以建立國家加密貨幣庫存，這是一大堆數字硬幣，加密貨幣行業花了幾個月的時間遊說新政府，因為它進一步使加密貨幣合法化並增加了對其的需求。

Trump’s order also prohibits the creation of a “central bank digital currency” overseen by the government. And the order promises “fair and open access to banking services” for crypto (responding to complaints from crypto companies that banks have denied them accounts).

特朗普的命令還禁止建立政府監督的“中央銀行數字貨幣”。該命令承諾對加密貨幣（Crypto）的“公平開放訪問銀行服務”（回應加密公司的投訴，銀行拒絕了他們的帳戶）。

In effect, Trump is writing the rules for a business venture from which he and his family are personally profiting. It

實際上，特朗普正在為他和他的家人個人從中獲利的企業撰寫規則。它