加密货币大亨孙宇晨在香港市场大吃620万美元香蕉

备受争议的加密货币大亨孙宇晨在香港吃价值 620 万美元的香蕉时笑容满面，这一奇观引发了人们对数字资产的关注

Crypto mogul Justin Sun ate a $6.2 million banana in Hong Kong on Friday, putting the spotlight on digital assets once again as the industry tries to keep an historic market rally on track.

周五，加密货币大亨孙宇晨在香港吃了价值 620 万美元的香蕉，在该行业试图保持历史性的市场反弹之际，数字资产再次成为人们关注的焦点。

The banana comes from a viral conceptual artwork, titled "Comedian," which is simply a banana duct-taped to a wall. Sun bought the artwork in a Sotheby’s auction last week.

香蕉来自一个名为“喜剧演员”的病毒概念艺术作品，它只是一根用胶带粘在墙上的香蕉。孙上周在苏富比拍卖会上买下了这件艺术品。

For Sun, the conspicuous consumption becomes a part of art history, and, as the sculpture’s owner, he has the right to manifest the piece with a new banana. The artwork, like crypto, ultimately derives meaning from an underlying idea, said China-born Sun, who until recently was better known as the target of US Securities and Exchange Commission fraud allegations that he rejects. Bridging memes, crypto and art is “very meaningful,” he said in an interview.

对孙来说，炫耀性消费成为艺术史的一部分，作为雕塑的主人，他有权用一根新香蕉来体现这件作品。出生于中国的孙说，这些艺术品就像加密货币一样，最终从一个潜在的想法中获得意义。直到最近，他还以美国证券交易委员会欺诈指控的目标而闻名，但他否认了这一指控。他在接受采访时表示，将模因、加密货币和艺术联系起来“非常有意义”。

Displays like Sun’s event on Friday, whatever their stated goal, draw eyeballs to a crypto market that lives or dies on momentum and where retail investors have yet to dive into the latest boom with the intensity evident in the pandemic — perhaps reflecting painful memories of how the 2021 bubble quickly burst.

像 Sun 周五的活动这样的展示，无论他们宣称的目标是什么，都会吸引人们的注意力到一个加密货币市场，这个市场的生死存亡取决于势头，而散户投资者尚未投入到新冠病毒大流行中明显强度的最新繁荣中——这或许反映了人们对加密货币市场的痛苦记忆。 2021年的泡沫很快就破灭了。

Investors on ‘Sidelines’

投资者“观望”

“From a retail perspective, interest is clearly growing as trading in Bitcoin has picked up significantly,” said Josh Gilbert, market analyst at eToro. “However, we are yet to see the levels we’ve seen in previous cycles, which signals that we’ve got a wave of retail investors still sitting on the sidelines watching.”

eToro 市场分析师 Josh Gilbert 表示：“从零售角度来看，随着比特币交易大幅回升，人们的兴趣明显在增长。” “然而，我们尚未看到前几个周期的水平，这表明有一波散户投资者仍在观望。”

When fear of missing out — FOMO — peaks, the speculative ardor tends to spill from Bitcoin into smaller tokens, or altcoins. But while Bitcoin is on a record-breaking tear and almost hit $100,000 atop President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-crypto agenda, many altcoins are trading below the highs posted three years ago.

当对错过机会的恐惧（FOMO）达到顶峰时，投机热情往往会从比特币蔓延到较小的代币或山寨币。然而，尽管比特币在当选总统唐纳德·特朗普的支持加密货币议程中创下了破纪录的纪录，几乎达到了 10 万美元，但许多山寨币的交易价格仍低于三年前的高点。

Other relevant metrics include South Korea’s Kimchi premium, which compares the cost of Bitcoin there with the offshore price. The premium tends to stretch during trading manias but is currently absent altogether. Elsewhere, a global index of the market for nonfungible tokens — blockchain-based digital collectibles — is languishing at about one-fifth its all-time peak.

其他相关指标包括韩国的泡菜溢价，该指标将韩国的比特币成本与离岸价格进行比较。在交易狂热期间，溢价往往会扩大，但目前完全不存在。在其他地方，不可替代代币（基于区块链的数字收藏品）市场的全球指数目前正处于历史峰值的五分之一左右。

“Retail FOMO hasn’t returned to 2021 levels,” said Jupiter Zheng, partner at crypto firm HashKey Capital. “Only a portion of altcoins are performing well.”

加密货币公司 HashKey Capital 合伙人 Jupiter Cheng 表示：“零售业的 FOMO 尚未恢复到 2021 年的水平。” “只有一部分山寨币表现良好。”

Some industry participants flag institutional Bitcoin demand as the initial driving force for the $1 trillion jump in the crypto market sparked by Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory. The president-elect’s platform includes a promise of friendlier regulations and the creation of a strategic US Bitcoin stockpile.

一些行业参与者将机构比特币需求视为特朗普 11 月 5 日大选胜利引发的加密市场 1 万亿美元跃升的最初推动力。这位当选总统的政纲包括承诺实行更友好的监管以及建立美国战略性比特币储备。

FOMO Stirring

FOMO 搅拌

Others argue greater retail-investor engagement is already underway, citing the recent record high of popular altcoin Solana, spiking downloads of crypto exchange apps and proliferating pumps of memecoins on social media.

其他人则认为，更多散户投资者的参与已经开始，他们列举了流行的山寨币 Solana 最近创下的历史新高、加密货币交易应用程序的下载量激增以及社交媒体上 memecoin 的激增。

There are “clear signs that retail investors have returned to the crypto market post-election,” said Caroline Bowler, chief executive officer of digital-asset exchange BTC Markets Pty. A significant number of trading accounts dormant since 2020 and 2021 sprang back to life in November, she said.

数字资产交易所 BTC Markets Pty 首席执行官卡罗琳·鲍勒 (Caroline Bowler) 表示，“有明显迹象表明，散户投资者在选举后已重返加密货币市场”。自 2020 年和 2021 年以来处于休眠状态的大量交易账户重新焕发活力。十一月，她说。

Sun, 34, is an adviser to the HTX exchange and creator of the Tron blockchain. The SEC has accused Sun of fraud and market manipulation over TRX, a token related to Tron. He has said the lawsuit lacks merit.

Sun，34 岁，是 HTX 交易所的顾问和 Tron 区块链的创建者。美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 指控 Sun 对与 Tron 相关的代币 TRX 进行欺诈和市场操纵。他表示该诉讼缺乏依据。

Sun recently made a splash with a $30 million investment in Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto project, praising its potential and denying the move was politically motivated.

Sun 最近向特朗普的 World Liberty Financial 加密项目投资了 3000 万美元，引起了轰动，赞扬了该项目的潜力，并否认此举是出于政治动机。

Trump has vowed to make the US the global home for crypto and plans to undo a Biden administration crackdown sparked by a market rout in 2022 that exposed risky practices and fraudulent activity. Such a backdrop is likely to draw more crypto executives into the limelight.

特朗普誓言要让美国成为全球加密货币之家，并计划撤销拜登政府因 2022 年市场暴跌而引发的打压行动，这场暴跌暴露了风险行为和欺诈活动。这样的背景可能会吸引更多加密货币高管成为众人瞩目的焦点。

“I’m very optimistic about the Trump administration and their crypto regulation,” said Sun, who has placed a banana on his profile on social media platform X. “They understand crypto a lot more than the past SEC regulation.”

“我对特朗普政府及其加密货币监管非常乐观，”孙说，他在社交媒体平台 X 上的个人资料上放了一根香蕉。“他们比过去的 SEC 监管更了解加密货币。”