特朗普新任“加密货币委员会”主任博·海因斯与 Meme Coin 恢复共和国有联系

当唐纳德·特朗普在圣诞节前几天宣布他正在任命一位前大学橄榄球运动员和失败的国会候选人来领导白宫“加密货币委员会”时，就连加密货币兄弟也感到困惑。

Bo Hines, a former college football player and failed congressional candidate, will lead a White House “crypto council,” despite having no experience in the crypto industry.

博·海因斯（Bo Hines）是一名前大学橄榄球运动员，也是落选的国会候选人，尽管他在加密行业没有经验，但他将领导白宫“加密货币委员会”。

Hines, 29, received support in one of his election campaigns from FTX campaign finance fraudster Ryan Salame.

29 岁的海因斯在一次竞选活动中得到了 FTX 竞选财务欺诈者 Ryan Salame 的支持。

More recently, a group overseen by his company teamed up with the makers of a Trump-themed meme coin called Restore the Republic that launched with a storm of scam accusations.

最近，由他的公司监管的一个组织与特朗普主题的模因硬币的制造商合作，名为“恢复共和国”，该硬币推出后引发了一系列诈骗指控。

Hines will serve as executive director of the newly created Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, which is chaired by the far more prominent venture capitalist David Sacks.

海因斯将担任新成立的总统数字资产顾问委员会的执行董事，该委员会由更为著名的风险投资家大卫·萨克斯担任主席。

Hines’s experience with the Trump-themed crypto venture raises questions about whether his appointment could signal looser restrictions on the fringe “meme coins” as the council sets out to deregulate more mainstream crypto projects backed by the likes of Sacks.

海因斯在以特朗普为主题的加密货币企业方面的经历引发了人们的疑问，随着该委员会着手放松对萨克斯等人支持的更多主流加密货币项目的监管，他的任命是否意味着对边缘“模因硬币”的限制更加宽松。

Until now, Hines’s ties to the crypto industry escaped scrutiny, in part because Trump announced his appointment in the days before Christmas. His relationship with Restore the Republic has not been previously reported.

到目前为止，海因斯与加密货币行业的关系都没有受到审查，部分原因是特朗普在圣诞节前几天宣布了他的任命。他与恢复共和国的关系此前从未有过报道。

Crypto Connections

加密连接

Trump announced Hines’s selection on Truth Social on December 22 by lauding Hines’s educational background — Yale University, Wake Forest University law school — instead of his crypto chops.

12 月 22 日，特朗普在 Truth Social 上宣布了海因斯的入选，并称赞海因斯的教育背景——耶鲁大学、维克森林大学法学院——而不是他的加密货币天赋。

In his home state of North Carolina, Hines may be best known for 2022 and 2024 runs for Congress, in two different districts, as well as a stint as a wide receiver at North Carolina State University before he transferred to Yale.

在他的家乡北卡罗来纳州，海因斯最出名的可能是 2022 年和 2024 年在两个不同选区竞选国会议员，以及在转学到耶鲁大学之前在北卡罗来纳州立大学担任外接手。

Despite Trump’s failure to tout them, however, Hines’s links to the crypto world were out in the open for anyone to notice.

然而，尽管特朗普未能吹捧它们，但海因斯与加密货币世界的联系是公开的，任何人都会注意到。

As the CEO of the right-wing news organization Today Is America, which he ran since March 2023, Hines provided a quote for an October 23 announcement about a partnership with a Trump-themed meme token called Restore the Republic.

作为自 2023 年 3 月以来担任右翼新闻机构《今日美国》的首席执行官，海因斯提供了 10 月 23 日关于与名为“恢复共和国”的特朗普主题模因代币合作的声明的引述。

Those were frantic, final days of a campaign that still seemed like it might come down to the wire. According to the press release, an organization called Students for Trump would partner with the meme coin organization to hold events, community forums, and voter outreach programs in swing states.

那是一场疯狂的竞选活动的最后几天，看起来仍然可能会进入最后阶段。根据新闻稿，一个名为“特朗普学生”的组织将与模因硬币组织合作，在摇摆州举办活动、社区论坛和选民外展计划。

Students for Trump and Today Is America are deeply intertwined. The student group is overseen by Today In America, according to a LinkedIn posting by a former top official at the company and a separate post on a crypto news clearinghouse about the Restore the Republic coin. And the student group’s homepage is a vertical of the Today Is America website. According to its Instagram bio, Students for Trump is “powered” by Today Is America.

特朗普和《今日美国》的学生紧密相连。根据该公司一位前高级官员在 LinkedIn 上发布的帖子以及加密货币新闻交换所上关于“恢复共和国”硬币的单独帖子，该学生团体由“今日美国”监管。而学生团体的主页则是垂直的Today Is America网站。根据其 Instagram 简介，学生支持特朗普是由《今日美国》“支持”的。

In the announcement of the Restore the Republic meme coin, Hines referred to the Students for Trump partnership in the first person.

在“恢复共和国模因硬币”的公告中，海因斯以第一人称提到了“学生支持特朗普”合作伙伴关系。

“We are excited to join forces with Restore the Republic to amplify our outreach and ensure voters across the country are equipped with the knowledge and tools they need to make informed decisions,” Hines said in a press release.

海因斯在一份新闻稿中表示：“我们很高兴能与恢复共和国合作，扩大我们的影响力，并确保全国各地的选民具备做出明智决定所需的知识和工具。”

The press release made it sound as if a trio of civic-minded organizations were coming together around a love of Trump. But in a conversation on X Spaces around the same time, an adviser for the Restore the Republic “team” acknowledged a more contentious recent history involving Trump.

这份新闻稿听起来好像是三个具有公民意识的组织围绕着对特朗普的热爱聚集在一起。但大约在同一时间，在 X Spaces 上的一次对话中，“恢复共和国”“团队”的一名顾问承认，最近一段涉及特朗普的争议更大。

In early August, Restore the Republic launched as a token at the same time that Trump’s sons were teasing the imminent creation of an official Trump crypto project.

8月初，“恢复共和国”作为一种代币推出，与此同时，特朗普的儿子们正在戏弄即将创建一个官方的特朗普加密项目。

Meme coins operate on the edges of a wider, infamously freewheeling cryptocurrency world. The most famous is Dogecoin, a dog-themed token with a shiba inu as its logo that seems to rise and fall on the whims of Elon Musk.

Meme 币在一个更广阔、臭名昭著的随心所欲的加密货币世界的边缘运行。最著名的是狗狗币，这是一种以狗为主题的代币，其标志是一只柴犬，似乎随着埃隆·马斯克的一时兴起而兴衰。

The new Restore the Republic token leaned heavily into Trump iconography on its website, featuring the famous photo of Trump raising his arm after a July assassination attempt and promising rewards for collectors in the form of custom Trump handguns and a dinner with Donald Trump Jr.

新的“恢复共和国”代币在其网站上很大程度上倾向于特朗普的肖像，其中包括特朗普在七月的暗杀企图后举起手臂的著名照片，并承诺为收藏者提供定制特朗普手枪和与小唐纳德·特朗普共进晚餐的奖励。

Speculators began snapping up the token, which had the same name as a phrase that Trump uttered on the campaign trail, on the hopes that it had the ex-president’s official blessing.

投机者开始抢购该代币，该代币与特朗普在竞选中所说的一句话同​​名，希望它能得到前总统的官方祝福。

An X post from Ryan Fournier, the founder of Students for Trump, helped fan the flames. “Rumor has it that the official trump coin is out…called Restore the Republic,” Fournier posted, months before the partnership between the coin and the student group was announced.

“特朗普学生”组织创始人 Ryan Fournier 的 X 帖子火上浇油。 “有传言称，官方的特朗普硬币已经问世了……名为“恢复共和国”，”福尼尔在该硬币与学生团体宣布合作的几个月前发帖称。

The market capitalization of the token soared to $155 million within hours of its launch. Later that day, however, it fell just as fast when Trump’s son Eric said the idea that the token was affiliated with his family “absolutely false.”

该代币的市值在推出后数小时内飙升至 1.55 亿美元。然而，当天晚些时候，当特朗普的儿子埃里克表示该代币与他的家族有联系的想法“绝对是错误的”时，它的下跌速度同样快。

In the meantime, however, someone snapped up and sold enough of the Trump-themed token to net a cool $4 million.

然而与此同时，有人抢购并出售了足够多的特朗普主题代币，净赚了 400 万美元。

It was just another dramatic rise and fall in the wild west world of meme coins, which are notorious for hype-driven boom and bust cycles.

这只是迷因币狂野西部世界的又一次戏剧性的兴衰，迷因币因炒作驱动的繁荣和萧条周期而臭名昭著。

As social media users tossed accusations that someone had used the token for a classic “pump and

随着社交媒体用户指责有人使用该代币进行经典的“拉高和炒作”