比特币汉堡和特勤局狙击手：唐纳德·特朗普访问加密货币酒馆 PubKey 的内部

前律师托马斯·帕基亚 (Thomas Pacchia) 两年前开设了 PubKey，他设想将距离华盛顿广场公园仅几个街区的西村潜水区打造成一家类似市民酒馆的地方。

Former president Donald Trump visited bitcoin bar PubKey in New York City on Thursday, making a historic purchase with the cryptocurrency: eight burgers for Secret Service agents.

前总统唐纳德·特朗普周四参观了纽约市的比特币酒吧 PubKey，用加密货币进行了历史性的购买：为特勤局特工购买了八个汉堡。

The bar’s owner, Tony Pacchia, a former Fidelity lawyer with deep ties in the crypto industry, told Fortune that Trump’s visit was kept a secret until a week prior. Pacchia worked closely with the Secret Service to prepare for the visit, which included blacking out the bar’s skylights and having snipers positioned nearby.

该酒吧的老板托尼·帕基亚 (Tony Pacchia) 曾是富达律师事务所的一名律师，与加密货币行业有着深厚的联系，他告诉《财富》杂志，特朗普的来访直到一周前才被保密。帕基亚与特勤局密切合作，为这次访问做准备，其中包括遮蔽酒吧的天窗，并在附近部署狙击手。

“It was insane,” Pacchia said. “It was a whirlwind.”

“这太疯狂了，”帕基亚说。 “这是一场旋风。”

The presidential visit culminated in one of the most high-profile bitcoin transactions to date, with Trump’s purchase being quickly shared on social media and generating excitement within the crypto community.

这次总统访问最终促成了迄今为止最引人注目的比特币交易之一，特朗普的购买行为很快在社交媒体上被分享，并在加密货币社区中引起了兴奋。

Pacchia, who used to host happy hours at the former bar to discuss bitcoin, named the gathering "Crypto at the Crow." When Formery Crow's shut down during the pandemic, Pacchia decided to open PubKey, inspired by visions of Paul Revere and Thomas Paine.

帕基亚曾在以前的酒吧举办欢乐时光讨论比特币，他将这次聚会命名为“Crypto at the Crow”。当 Previous Crow 在大流行期间关闭时，受到保罗·里维尔 (Paul Revere) 和托马斯·潘恩 (Thomas Paine) 愿景的启发，帕基亚 (Pacchia) 决定开设 PubKey。

“Bitcoin needs its tavern and meeting house to cultivate some of these revolutionary, cultural, economic, and technical changes that it’s been the catalyst for,” Pacchia told Fortune.

“比特币需要它的小酒馆和会议室来培育一些革命性的、文化的、经济的和技术的变革，而比特币一直是催化剂，”帕基亚告诉《财富》杂志。

He teamed up with two experienced restauranteers, as well as the former Eleven Madison Park chef, to design an eclectic menu of gourmet burgers, hot dogs, and cocktails that could appeal to both Village denizens and crypto acolytes.

他与两位经验丰富的餐厅老板以及前麦迪逊公园十一号厨师合作，设计了一份不拘一格的菜单，包括美味汉堡、热狗和鸡尾酒，可以吸引乡村居民和加密货币追随者。

Despite its Bitcoin-themed decor, PubKey still attracts a diverse clientele. Last November, Pacchia noticed a couple at the very end of the bar who seemed like they had just finished a long shift of work. He sidled over to chat them up, and they asked about the strange theme. When he told them about PubKey’s Bitcoin ethos, they looked shocked. “Are you messing with us?” they asked. As it turned out, they were photographers for the New York Post, tasked with photographing Caroline Ellison, who just happened to be staying nearby to testify at Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial. The couple had stumbled in by accident.

尽管以比特币为主题的装饰，PubKey 仍然吸引着多元化的客户。去年 11 月，帕基亚注意到酒吧尽头有一对夫妇，他们似乎刚刚结束了长时间的轮班工作。他侧身与他们聊天，他们询问了这个奇怪的话题。当他告诉他们 PubKey 的比特币精神时，他们看起来很震惊。 “你在逗我们吗？”他们问道。事实证明，他们是《纽约邮报》的摄影师，负责拍摄卡罗琳·埃里森 (Caroline Ellison)，而卡罗琳·埃里森恰好在附近为萨姆·班克曼·弗里德 (Sam Bankman-Fried) 的审判作证。这对夫妇是偶然闯入的。

Trump’s first foray into crypto was in 2022, when he launched an NFT collection and earned a modest return. His overall attitude towards crypto remained lukewarm, but that changed as the industry emerged as one of the biggest campaign spenders of the 2024 electoral cycle. Today, Trump embraces blockchain with zeal, adopting some of the sector’s top priorities, which include freeing Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and firing Securities and Exchange Commissioner Gary Gensler.

特朗普首次涉足加密货币是在 2022 年，当时他推出了 NFT 系列并获得了适度的回报。他对加密货币的总体态度仍然不冷不热，但随着该行业成为 2024 年选举周期中最大的竞选支出者之一，这种情况发生了变化。如今，特朗普热情拥抱区块链，采取了该行业的一些首要任务，其中包括释放丝绸之路创始人罗斯·乌布利希(Ross Ulbricht)并解雇证券交易委员加里·詹斯勒(Gary Gensler)。

Despite Trump’s parroting of party lines, he hasn’t won over everyone, as some remain suspicious over his labeling of Bitcoin as a “scam” just a few years ago. Meanwhile, his recent announcement of a so-called DeFi protocol, World Liberty Financial, run by the Trump family has been slammed by critics as a cash grab rather than a genuine effort to create a decentralized product.

尽管特朗普人云亦云，但他并没有赢得所有人的支持，因为一些人仍然对他几年前将比特币贴上“骗局”标签表示怀疑。与此同时，他最近宣布的由特朗普家族运营的所谓 DeFi 协议 World Liberty Financial 遭到批评者的猛烈抨击，称其为抢钱行为，而不是真正致力于创建去中心化产品。

During Trump’s visit to PubKey, he still hadn’t mastered the often esoteric lingo, referring to the food he slung out as “crypto burgers” even as one patron tried to correct him to Bitcoin—a distinction that matters to Bitcoin loyalists who view other tokens, in crypto lingo, as “shit coins.”

在特朗普访问 PubKey 期间，他仍然没有掌握这个深奥的行话，他将他推销的食物称为“加密汉堡”，尽管一位顾客试图纠正他对比特币的看法——这一区别对于比特币忠实拥护者来说很重要，因为他们认为其他人认为比特币是“加密汉堡”。代币，用加密术语来说，就是“垃圾币”。

Meanwhile, videos of the historic burger transaction initially suggested it had failed, which Pacchia attributed to QR scanning difficulty due to camera flashes. (He added that that about 5% of sales at PubKey are with Bitcoin.)

与此同时，历史性汉堡交易的视频最初表明交易失败了，帕基亚将其归因于相机闪光灯导致二维码扫描困难。 （他补充说，PubKey 约 5% 的销售额来自比特币。）

Pacchia was quick to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. “It’s a long-duration learning curve to get the point where you understand the differences between [Bitcoin and crypto],” Pacchia told Fortune. “It’s unrealistic to expect any one of these politicians to become Bitcoin experts—it’s about who they’re listening to.”

帕基亚很快就认定特朗普是无辜的。 “要了解[比特币和加密货币]之间的差异，这是一个长期的学习曲线，”帕基亚告诉《财富》杂志。 “期望这些政客中的任何一位成为比特币专家都是不现实的——问题在于他们在听谁的意见。”

Trump’s appearance validated Pacchia’s decision to start PubKey. He gave the former president two gifts. The first was a replica of the famous “Buy Bitcoin” sign, which a PubKey founding partner held up behind then-Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen during a congressional hearing in 2017. The second was the American flag that another PubKey patron had commissioned to fly above the U.S. Capitol by Senator Elizabeth Warren as a prank, in honor of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

特朗普的出现证实了帕基亚创办 PubKey 的决定。他送给前总统两份礼物。第一个是著名的“购买比特币”标志的复制品，在 2017 年的国会听证会上，PubKey 的一位创始合伙人在时任美联储主席珍妮特·耶伦 (Janet Yellen) 身后举起了该标志。第二个是另一位 PubKey 赞助人委托悬挂的美国国旗参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）在美国国会大厦上方进行了恶作剧，以纪念比特币创造者中本聪（Satoshi Nakamoto）。

Despite the fanfare, Pacchia insists that PubKey will not endorse a presidential candidate. He’s holding out hope that Harris will stop by. “Bitcoin should not be a partisan issue,” he said. “It’s for everyone.”

尽管大张旗鼓，帕基亚坚称 PubKey 不会支持总统候选人。他满怀希望哈里斯会过来。 “比特币不应该成为党派问题，”他说。 “它适合所有人。”