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上周,纳什维尔市中心变成了一场狂欢节,数千人参加了比特币 2024 大会。最热情的与会者穿着比特币橙色或“让美国再次伟大”的红色——正如色轮所证实的那样,两者并没有太大不同。
Last week, downtown Nashville transformed into a carnival as thousands of people descended on the Bitcoin 2024 conference. The most enthusiastic attendees wore bitcoin orange or “Make America great again” red – which, as the color wheel confirms, are not all that different.
上周,纳什维尔市中心变成了一场狂欢节,数千人参加了比特币 2024 大会。最热情的与会者穿着比特币橙色或“让美国再次伟大”的红色——正如色轮所证实的那样,两者并没有太大不同。
Bitcoin has been around since 2009, and the conference since 2019, but 2024 marked the first year that two US presidential candidates would give keynote addresses: Robert F Kennedy Jr, a longtime bitcoin fan, and Donald Trump, who announced that he was pro-bitcoin in May after years of calling it a “scam” and “disaster”. The excitement was palpable: the way bitcoiners saw it, they had transformed into a voting bloc.
比特币自 2009 年以来就已存在,会议自 2019 年就已存在,但 2024 年标志着两位美国总统候选人发表主题演讲的第一年:比特币的长期粉丝小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 (Robert F Kennedy Jr) 和宣布支持比特币的唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump)。多年来,比特币一直被称为“骗局”和“灾难”。人们的兴奋是显而易见的:在比特币支持者看来,他们已经转变为一个投票集团。
Marshall Beard, COO of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, even claimed in his remarks that a candidate’s cryptocurrency stance would influence the vote of seven in 10 US crypto-owners. Notably, a 2023 Pew Research Center survey found that just 17% of US adults have ever bought cryptocurrency, and most of them men under 50.
加密货币交易所 Gemini 首席运营官 Marshall Beard 甚至在讲话中声称,候选人的加密货币立场将影响美国十分之七的加密货币所有者的投票。值得注意的是,皮尤研究中心 2023 年的一项调查发现,只有 17% 的美国成年人曾经购买过加密货币,其中大多数是 50 岁以下的男性。
I flew out to Nashville on Saturday for the last day of Bitcoin 2024, when Trump was scheduled to speak, to see the spectacle first hand. I’d spent the previous two days watching the conference live stream, which featured speeches from RFK Jr and Edward Snowden, and talking-head panels opining about bitcoin.
周六,我飞往纳什维尔参加比特币 2024 年的最后一天,特朗普计划在当天发表讲话,亲眼目睹这一奇观。前两天我一直在观看会议直播,其中包括小 RFK 和爱德华·斯诺登的演讲,以及专家小组对比特币的看法。
In past years, bitcoiners insisted their enthusiasm for the coin was apolitical. Now, they insist that Joe Biden and Democrats waged a four-year war on cryptocurrency, forcing many to support the policies of RFK Jr and Trump. That said, I didn’t meet a single recent convert from Biden. Those I spoke with at the conference had a very similar style of politics to Trump supporters broadly: they insisted that they were under attack from elites, that the US was on the verge of tyranny or collapse. They’re determined to win the culture war, which they believe they’re losing.
在过去的几年里,比特币爱好者坚称他们对比特币的热情与政治无关。现在,他们坚称乔·拜登和民主党对加密货币发动了长达四年的战争,迫使许多人支持小罗伯特·肯尼迪和特朗普的政策。也就是说,我没有遇到任何一个最近从拜登那里皈依的人。我在会议上交谈过的人与特朗普的支持者有着非常相似的政治风格:他们坚称自己受到了精英的攻击,美国正处于暴政或崩溃的边缘。他们决心赢得文化战争,但他们认为自己正在输掉这场战争。
And like Trump himself, they insisted that they’d been falsely branded as criminals.
和特朗普本人一样,他们坚称自己被错误地标记为罪犯。
Trump sells gold sneakers, T-shirts blazoned with his mugshot, and strange NFTs that depict him as various cowboy-superhero-maverick characters. It seems he and bitcoiners share a love of anything gaudy.
特朗普出售金色运动鞋、印有他照片的 T 恤,以及将他描绘成各种牛仔、超级英雄和特立独行角色的奇怪 NFT。看来他和比特币爱好者都喜欢任何花哨的东西。
As I waited in a long, snaking line for Trump to take the stage on Saturday, I took in the campy aesthetic of the conference. A gallery area featured dozens of art pieces starring Pepe, a cartoon frog made famous by far-right internet users, that I haven’t seen since maybe 2018; an artist could even paint you as a Pepe-style frog on site. One booth sold a device that warms water using excess heat from bitcoin mining rigs; a young woman in a bikini stood in a small inflatable pool, showering herself with the bitcoin water. Other booths advertised “bitcoin panties”, or terrifying paintings of January 6-style events led by the left, or information about “a divine feminine Christ motherboard”. And, in celebration of a new political alignment, I kept seeing Maga-style red hats that said “BITCOIN MADE IN AMERICA”. (There were many actual Maga hats as well.)
周六,当我排着长长的队伍等待特朗普上台时,我感受到了这次会议的做作美学。画廊区展出了数十件以佩佩 (Pepe) 为主角的艺术作品,佩佩是一只因极右翼互联网用户而闻名的卡通青蛙,大约从 2018 年起我就再也没有见过它了;艺术家甚至可以在现场把你画成佩佩式的青蛙。一个摊位出售一种利用比特币挖矿设备余热加热水的设备;一名身穿比基尼的年轻女子站在一个小型充气泳池中,用比特币水给自己洗澡。其他摊位宣传“比特币内裤”,或者由左派主导的 1 月 6 日风格的恐怖画作,或者有关“神圣女性基督主板”的信息。而且,为了庆祝新的政治联盟,我不断看到马加风格的红色帽子,上面写着“比特币美国制造”。 (还有很多真正的玛伽帽子。)
The room was gigantic, and dimly lit by the neon orange glow of the stage. David Bailey of Bitcoin Magazine announced that about 8,000 people were packed into it, though I’d put the number closer to 2,000. They were, at a conservative guess, 85% male. For the first time in my life, I saw lines to the men’s restroom dozens of people long, and no line for the women’s. I sat nestled in a sea of Trump supporters, including one man in a Maga hat who wore an ear bandage in solidarity with Trump’s attempted assassination. A few times, the crowd broke out into “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” chants. Trump took the stage about 90 minutes late.
房间很大,舞台上霓虹橙色的光芒使房间显得昏暗。比特币杂志的 David Bailey 宣布,里面大约有 8,000 人,但我认为这个数字接近 2,000 人。据保守估计,他们中 85% 是男性。我有生以来第一次看到男厕所排了几十个人的队,而女厕所却没有人排队。我坐在特朗普支持者的海洋中,其中包括一名戴着马加帽的男子,他戴着耳朵绷带,以声援特朗普的暗杀行动。有几次,人群爆发出“特朗普!王牌!王牌!”颂歌。特朗普迟到了大约90分钟才上台。
Like most people, I’ve seen probably a million videos of Trump rallies. It’s markedly different to watch Trump in person. You can feel the air shift when he changes topics and thousands rush to match his performed anger, joy, solemnity or silliness. Shortly after somberly discussing the presumed Hezbollah attack on Israel, for instance, Trump excitedly called out the most recognizable attenders at Bitcoin 2024, including Kid Rock, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jake Paul and Laura Loomer. (He didn’t mention “Hawk Tuah girl”, who took a picture with RFK Jr on Friday, or Anthony Scaramucci, his former press secretary, also in attendance.)
和大多数人一样,我看过大约一百万个特朗普集会的视频。亲眼目睹特朗普的感受明显不同。当他改变话题时,你可以感觉到空气的变化,成千上万的人涌来配合他表现出的愤怒、喜悦、庄严或愚蠢。例如,在严肃地讨论了真主党对以色列的袭击后不久,特朗普就兴奋地召集了比特币 2024 年最知名的与会者,包括 Kid Rock、Billy Ray Cyrus、Jake Paul 和 Laura Loomer。 (他没有提到周五与 RFK Jr 合影的“Hawk Tuah 女孩”,也没有提到也在场的他的前新闻秘书 Anthony Scaramucci。)
Trump deftly gauged what his audience wanted to hear: that they were very, very smart. He obliged, repeatedly referencing the “geniuses” and “very smart” “high-IQ individuals” in the room.
特朗普巧妙地判断出他的听众想听到什么:他们非常非常聪明。他答应了,并反复提到房间里的“天才”和“非常聪明”“高智商的人”。
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