加密货币高管忍不住吹牛。选举的结果正如他们中许多人所希望的那样。

美国大选的结果正如他们中许多人所希望的那样。自称为“加密货币总统”的唐纳德·特朗普击败副总统卡马拉·哈里斯入主白宫。

Crypto execs are celebrating after the US election, which saw several pro-crypto candidates win their races. But a closer look at the results suggests that crypto cash—not crypto enthusiasm—played a decisive role.

美国大选后，加密货币高管正在庆祝，几位支持加密货币的候选人赢得了竞选。但仔细观察结果表明，加密货币现金（而不是加密货币热情）发挥了决定性作用。

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这个故事的一个版本出现在我们 11 月 21 日的《指南》时事通讯中。请在此处注册。

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Ben Weiss 是 DL News 的迪拜记者。本专栏中表达的观点是他自己的。

Crypto execs can’t help but brag.

加密货币高管忍不住吹牛。

The US election turned out as many of them had hoped.

美国大选的结果正如他们中许多人所希望的那样。

Donald Trump, who branded himself as the “crypto president,” beat out Vice President Kamala Harris to win the White House.

自称为“加密货币总统”的唐纳德·特朗普击败副总统卡马拉·哈里斯入主白宫。

Bernie Moreno, a Republican crypto champion, clobbered Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown, an industry skeptic, to win an Ohio Senate seat.

共和党加密货币拥护者伯尼·莫雷诺(Bernie Moreno)击败了行业怀疑论者、民主党现任议员谢罗德·布朗(Sherrod Brown)，赢得了俄亥俄州参议院席位。

And Stand With Crypto, a lobbying group, said that 268 “pro-crypto” candidates won their elections compared to 122 “anti-crypto” candidates in the House of Representatives.

游说团体 Stand With Crypto 表示，众议院有 268 名“支持加密货币”候选人赢得选举，而众议院有 122 名“反加密货币”候选人。

Industry power players interpreted the election results as a ringing endorsement of pro-crypto politics.

行业巨头将选举结果解读为对加密货币政治的强烈支持。

“On many, many issues, the voters said loud and clear that they want change,” Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer of Coinbase, posted on X. “Crypto is no exception.”

Coinbase 首席法律官 Paul Grewal 在 X 上发帖称：“在很多很多问题上，选民大声而明确地表达了他们想要改变。加密货币也不例外。”

I don’t buy it.

我不买。

Sure, crypto had an impact, but I don’t believe a significant bloc of single-issue crypto voters helped sway elections. The industry’s money did.

当然，加密货币产生了影响，但我不认为单一问题的加密货币选民的重要群体有助于影响选举。行业的钱做到了。

Crypto-focused political action committees raised $197 million during the 2024 election cycle, according to a tracker developed by crypto researcher Molly White.

根据加密货币研究员 Molly White 开发的追踪器，以加密货币为重点的政治行动委员会在 2024 年选举周期筹集了 1.97 亿美元。

And PACs spent $133 million of that war chest.

PAC 花费了其中 1.33 亿美元的资金。

That cash wasn’t explicitly lavished on trumpeting the cause of crypto. Rather, it was often spent on advertisements, which never mentioned crypto, for pro-crypto candidates.

这笔钱并没有明确地用于宣扬加密事业。相反，它经常花在支持加密货币候选人的广告上，而广告中从未提及加密货币。

In 59 political ads paid for by three of the biggest crypto PACs, none referenced decentralized tech, according to an analysis from Axios.

根据 Axios 的分析，在三个最大的加密 PAC 支付的 59 个政治广告中，没有一个提及去中心化技术。

And on the campaign website for Moreno, on whom crypto PACs spent more than $40 million, there was no mention of digital assets on his “About” or “Why I’m Running” pages.

在莫雷诺的竞选网站上，加密货币 PAC 花费了超过 4000 万美元，他的“关于”或“为什么我竞选”页面上没有提及数字资产。

Rather, Moreno focused on “Communist China,” protecting the Second Amendment, and cutting government spending.

相反，莫雷诺关注的是“共产主义中国”、保护第二修正案和削减政府支出。

I’m flying in the face of industry-sponsored polls that say there’s a small but significant bloc of single-issue crypto voters.

我正在面对行业发起的民意调查，这些民意调查显示，有一小部分但重要的单一问题加密货币选民。

However, my two Satoshis is that the election came down to the same issues Americans have always cared about: the economy, immigration, inflation, among others.

然而，我的两位中本聪认为，这次选举归结为美国人一直关心的同样问题：经济、移民、通货膨胀等等。

The percentage of voters who said they believed the state of the US’s economy was “not so good or poor” increased from 50% in 2020 to 68% in 2024, according to exit polls from NBC.

根据 NBC 的出口民意调查，表示认为美国经济状况“不太好或很差”的选民比例从 2020 年的 50% 增加到 2024 年的 68%。

And, in an indication that immigration was a deciding issue for voters, Trump was able to flip counties on the Texas-Mexico border red for the first time in decades, per the Financial Times.

据英国《金融时报》报道，特朗普几十年来首次将德克萨斯州和墨西哥边境的县变成红色，这表明移民是选民的决定性问题。

Maybe that’s why a crypto PAC-sponsored ad for Moreno said he would “back the Trump economic agenda,” stop “rampant inflation,” and halt “the flood of illegal immigrants.”

也许这就是为什么莫雷诺在加密货币 PAC 赞助的广告中表示，他将“支持特朗普的经济议程”，阻止“猖獗的通货膨胀”，并阻止“非法移民的洪流”。

It never mentioned crypto.

它从未提到加密货币。

Reach out to me at bweiss@dlnews.com.

请通过 bweiss@dlnews.com 与我联系。