加密貨幣的氛圍：當Tulipmania遇到美國薄荷

懷俄明州共和黨參議員辛西婭·盧米斯（Cynthia Lummis）提出的一項提議將建立“聯邦政府的第一個國家戰略比特幣儲備”，同時“放鬆對該行業的法規”

A columnist rushes to buy $TRUMP crypto meme coins but finds no takers. This leads her on a meditation on the nature of value, currency, and crypto.

一位專欄作家急於購買$ trump Crypto Meme硬幣，但沒有發現。這使她對價值，貨幣和加密性的性質進行了冥想。

I rushed to my computer to stock up on $TRUMP crypto meme coins, but I couldn’t find a place that would take my money for nothing.

我趕到我的計算機上儲存$ trump Crypto Meme硬幣，但我找不到可以花錢的地方。

You might pause at the getting-nothing-for-something scenario, but that just shows how we are all psychological prisoners to dead tree currency, or so our Crypto Edgelords would have us believe.

您可能會因為沒有待命的場景而停下來，但這僅僅表明了我們如何成為心理囚犯死樹貨幣，或者我們的加密貨幣Edgelords會讓我們相信。

But nothing for something is the genius at the heart of crypto meme coins!

但是，沒有什麼東西是加密模因硬幣的核心天才！

You buy a coin, or part of one, using your money, which is a Some Thing. In exchange you get a piece of a crypto meme No Thing.

您使用您的錢購買一枚硬幣或一部分，這是一件事情。作為交換，您會得到一塊加密模因。

Well, not a real, actual No Thing.

好吧，不是真實的，實際上沒有事。

Not a black hole kind of nothing, which can be mathematically measured and verified. More like a concept of a No Thing.

沒有一個黑洞，可以在數學上測量和驗證。更像是一個不做任何事的概念。

You see, in the beginning, when dairy farmer Bob wanted something other than cereal for breakfast, he and chicken farmer Abe bartered little red hens and fat brown cows. This was awkward. It did not fit into a wallet, or even, eventually, entire barns.

您會發現，一開始，當奶農鮑勃（Bob）想要早餐以外的其他東西時，他和雞肉農民安倍堡（Abe Abe Abe Abe）換了小紅母雞和脂肪棕色的母牛。這很尷尬。它不適合錢包，甚至最終都沒有整個穀倉。

And so there was money. Money represents a Thing. The dollar represents a claim upon the economic resources and credit of the U.S., which is a Very Big Thing, and which, despite the incalculable devastation wreaked by the great egg price horror of 2023, remains alive and kicking. For (checks watch) now.

所以有錢。金錢代表了一件事情。美元代表著對美國的經濟資源和信貸的主張，這是一件很大的事情，儘管2023年巨大的雞蛋價格恐怖造成了不可估量的破壞，但仍保持活力和踢球。現在（檢查）。

Your crypto meme coin might be worth $90 million next Tuesday, if investors’ random positive feelings about your No Thing prompts them to part with some of their own Some Things — or 90 cents on Wednesday, if they all get a headache.

如果投資者對您的無能為力的隨機積極感覺會促使他們與自己的某些東西分開，或者在星期三的90美分，如果他們都頭疼，那麼您的加密模因硬幣可能會價值9000萬美元。

Because this is where the smart money is, people! Currency not valued on a nation’s good faith and credit, or goods, or services, or even surplus hens, but the vibes of investors. Whimsical, paradoxical, ketamine-fueled vibes.

因為這是聰明的錢，人們！貨幣不重視一個國家的誠信，信用，商品或服務，甚至是剩餘母雞，而是投資者的共鳴。異想天開，悖論，氯胺酮燃料的氛圍。

Take the PNUT crypto meme coin, created because many, many investors were outraged over Peanut the Squirrel’s arrest and euthanasia by New York City, including noted rodent aficionados Elon Musk and Donald Trump. A meme coin memorialized his furry little legend. On Dec. 12, a PNUT coin was trading at $1.35 and had a market cap of $1.3 billion. Last week, it traded at 36 cents and had a market cap of $359 million.

以Pnut加密模因硬幣的形式創建，因為許多許多投資者對紐約市的花生對鬆鼠的逮捕和安樂死感到憤怒，其中包括著名的囓齒動物迷Elon Musk和Donald Trump。一個模因紀念他的毛茸茸的小傳奇。 12月12日，Pnut硬幣的交易價格為1.35美元，市值為13億美元。上週，它以36美分的價格交易，市值為3.59億美元。

See how well that works?

看到它的工作效果嗎？

Better yet, it’s all secret. So, your neighbor or a squirrel masseuse or a foreign power seeking malign influence under cover of crypto can surreptitiously funnel money to PNUT without anyone knowing!

更好的是，這都是秘密。因此，您的鄰居或鬆鼠的按摩師或尋求惡性影響的外國權力在加密貨幣的掩護下可能會秘密地向Pnut籌集資金，而沒有人知道！

I would not want to mix up serious cryptocurrency with a meme coin, and specifically, not with $TRUMP meme coins, described as “an extreme case of sh-tcoinery” by a vice president at Swan, a BItcoin financial services company. But there are similarities.

我不想將嚴重的加密貨幣與模因硬幣混為一談，特別是與$ trump Meme Coins一起，被比特幣金融服務公司Swan副總裁稱為“ Sh-Tcoinery的極端情況”。但是有相似之處。

Let’s talk about tulips!

讓我們談談鬱金香！

Back in the 1600s, when Holland was in the grip of Tulipmania, a single bulb of Semper Augustus could command 12 acres of land. Not that there were a lot of physical transactions. The Dutch described tulip contract sales as “wind trade” because the real money was in contracts to buy tulips, more and more paper promises swapped for more and more money, until it all fell apart.

早在1600年代，當荷蘭在塔利普曼尼亞（Tulipmania）的抓地力中時，一個塞姆珀（Semper）奧古斯都（Semper Augustus）的一個球體可以命令12英畝的土地。並不是說有很多物理交易。荷蘭語將鬱金香合同銷售描述為“風交易”，因為真正的錢是購買鬱金香的合同，越來越多的紙張承諾將越來越多的錢換成，直到一切都崩潰了。

And that, boys and girls, is why we have dikes in Holland today, to hold back the bitter, bitter tears shed by people who had a house and a family and then a vibe and a promise of a bulb and then no house and no family and the concept of a flower.

這就是男孩和女孩，這就是為什麼我們今天在荷蘭有堤防的原因，忍受了有房子和家人，然後是一個氛圍和燈泡的承諾，然後沒有房子，沒有房子的人，沒有，沒有房子，沒有家庭和花的概念。

So when I tell you that there is a serious Washington proposal to back up a truck to the U.S. Mint and unload a whole lot of crypto No Things, for which the U.S. will give crypto sellers billions and billions of taxpayer’s Hard Earned Some Things, it’s appropriate to feel a little apprehensive.

因此，當我告訴您有一項嚴重的華盛頓提議將卡車備份到美國造幣廠並卸下很多加密貨幣，美國將為加密貨幣賣方和數十億美元的納稅人付出了一些辛苦賺來的東西，這就是適合感到有些憂慮。

This plan, offered by Wyoming Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis, will establish “the federal government’s first National Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” while simultaneously “easing regulations for the sector” or, as Trump called this concept of an idea four short years ago, “potentially a disaster waiting to happen.”

懷俄明州共和黨參議員辛西婭·盧米斯（Cynthia Lummis）提供的該計劃將建立“聯邦政府的第一個國家戰略比特幣儲備”，同時同時“放鬆該行業的法規”，或者，特朗普在不到幾年前就這一想法稱為“可能”一場等待發生的災難。”

But vibes shift. “I don’t know much about it other than I launched it,” the president said of $TRUMP last week.

但是共鳴也改變了。總統上週談到特朗普時說：“除了發起它，我對此並不了解。”

Never too soon to start stocking up on little red hens.

永遠不要太早開始存放小紅母雞。

Pat Beall is a Sun Sentinel columnist and editorial writer. Contact her at beall.news@gmail.com

Pat Beall是Sun Sentinel專欄作家和社論作家。通過beall.news@gmail.com與她聯繫