加密骗局：唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）称加密货币为“等待发生的灾难”

早在2021年，唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）称加密货币为“等待发生的灾难”和“骗局”。需要一个人认识一个，对吗？

Donald Trump's administration has been open about its enthusiasm for cryptocurrency. Last year, as Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, he was a vocal critic of Bitcoin and other digital currencies.

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的政府对其对加密货币的热情开放。去年，当特朗普在白宫竞选第二任期时，他是比特币和其他数字货币的声音批评者。

"It’s a disaster waiting to happen. Set up by hedge funds, and other pişies, to fleece money from the fools who pour in. A total scam!" Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.

“这是一场等待发生的灾难。靠树篱基金和其他皮什斯（Pişies）设立，从倒入的傻瓜那里羊毛。完全骗局！”特朗普在他的真相社交平台上的帖子中写道。

However, Trump may have changed his mind about the “scam” as a result of the millions of dollars that flowed into his campaign coffers from industry donors. To the delight of these donors, Trump promised to make the United States the cryptocurrency capital of the world. He also talked about creating a strategic reserve of Bitcoin.

但是，由于数百万美元流入了行业捐助者的竞选库中，特朗普可能改变了对“骗局”的想法。为了这些捐助者，特朗普答应使美国成为世界的加密货币之都。他还谈到了创建比特币战略储备。

After he won the election, Trump received over $11 million in contributions to his inaugural committee from the crypto industry. It’s a hallmark of pyramid scams that only the people at the very top reap the benefits, and Trump has put himself at the very apex of the ziggurat in order to rake in millions for his posse and for himself.

在赢得选举之后，特朗普获得了加密货币行业的就职委员会的贡献超过1100万美元。这是金字塔骗局的标志，只有最高的人民才能获得好处，而特朗普将自己放在了Ziggurat的最高点上，以便为自己的姿势和他自己赚数百万人。

Consider the saga of $TRUMP.

考虑一下特朗普的传奇。

Three days before his inauguration, the $TRUMP meme coin debuted. Meme coins are usually based on an Internet meme and are “typically characterized by their volatile nature.” Well, that sounds like a good fit for Trump! Indeed, after he promoted the coin on his social media accounts, its value surged astronomically.

在他就职典礼前三天，$特朗普的模因硬币首次亮相。模因硬币通常基于互联网模因，并且“通常以它们的挥发性特征”。好吧，这听起来很适合特朗普！的确，在他在社交媒体帐户上推广硬币后，其价值在天文学上飙升。

Some of the biggest winners in this naked money grab were the firms that launched the coin and profited from the transaction fees, which netted them as much as $100 million in the first two weeks. One of those firms was CIC Digital, which is owned by…Trump himself.

这笔赤裸裸的钱中的一些最大赢家是推出硬币并从交易费中获利的公司，在头两周内，他们赚了多达1亿美元。其中一家公司是CIC Digital，该公司由……特朗普本人拥有。

Like all financial operations characterized by irrational exuberance, the value of $TRUMP soon plummeted. Indeed, over 800,000 investor accounts lost a total of $2 billion. Of course, they’re not the only Trump supporters who are suffering from buyer’s remorse. Even the stock market, which initially cheered Trump’s election, is having a serious hangover, a swing in mood not very different from $TRUMP’s trajectory.

就像所有以非理性繁荣为特征的金融业务一样，特朗普的价值很快就会下降。实际上，超过80万个投资者帐户损失了20亿美元。当然，他们并不是唯一遭受买家re悔的特朗普支持者。即使是最初为特朗普大选加油的股票市场，也有严重的宿醉，情绪的摇摆与特朗普的轨迹并没有很大不同。

$TRUMP’s deep dive notwithstanding—or perhaps because of the success of this scam—crypto remains an essential part of Trump's economic plans. And Trump is not the only far-right leader who has dabbled in scamming the population with crypto. Argentina’s Javier Milei is now dealing with the aftermath of a corruption scandal associated with $LIBRA, a meme coin he initially supported and which left 10,000 investors over $250 million poorer. El Salvador is still reeling from Nayib Bukele’s crypto obsession, which cost his country $60 million when Bitcoin tanked a couple years ago—not to mention all the Salvadoran energy and natural resources that Bitcoin mining has absorbed.

$特朗普的深度潜水（或者也许是因为这场骗局的成功）仍然是特朗普经济计划的重要组成部分。特朗普并不是唯一一个涉足用加密货币骗人的人口的极端领导人。阿根廷的哈维尔·米利（Javier Milei）现在正在处理与$ libra相关的腐败丑闻的后果，$ libra是他最初支持的模因硬币，并使10,000个投资者损失了超过2.5亿美元的穷人。埃尔·萨尔瓦多（El Salvador）仍在纳耶布·布克尔（Nayib Bukele）的加密迷恋中脱颖而出，几年前比特币跌倒时，他的国家耗资6000万美元，更不用说比特币采矿吸收的所有萨尔瓦多能源和自然资源。

Two years ago, I explained how cryptocurrencies function like pyramid scams. Last year, I discussed the environmental consequences of crypto.

两年前，我解释了加密货币如何像金字塔骗局一样起作用。去年，我讨论了加密货币的环境后果。

Now I want to dig a little deeper into the politics of crypto: how Trump and his far-right allies are using these digital currencies as a strategy to rig the rules of the game in their favor.

现在，我想更深入地研究加密政治：特朗普和他的极右翼盟友如何使用这些数字货币作为一种策略来挖掘游戏规则的有利。

The Mechanisms of Theft

盗窃的机制

To understand how crypto scams work, you need to know about “sniping” and “rug-pulling.”

要了解加密骗局的工作方式，您需要了解“狙击”和“地毯”。

When a new crypto product is launched, whether it’s a meme coin or a non-fungible token, a select group of speculators place a big buy to push the value higher. If enough of these “snipers” exit at the same time, the value drops, providing the snipers with short-term profits and leaving a lot of other investors holding the (empty) bag.

当推出新的加密产品（无论是模因硬币还是不可杀死的代币）时，一组精选的投机者将大买入以更高的价格推动该价值。如果这些“狙击手”中的足够多同时退出，则价值下降，为狙击手提供短期利润，并留下许多其他拿着（空）包的投资者。

Of course, it helps to know in advance about a new product launch so that you can line up your bots and your AI to execute high-volume and high-speed trades—and your coordinated exit from the stage. In another context, you might call this “insider trading.”

当然，事先了解新产品的发布有助于您可以对机器人和AI排列，以执行高批量和高速交易，以及从舞台上进行协调的退出。在另一种情况下，您可以称之为“内部交易”。

The orchestrated sale of the crypto product is known as the “rug pull.” It can be sudden, as was the case with $TRUMP. Or it can take place over a longer period of time in what used to be known as the “long con.”

加密产品精心策划的销售称为“地毯拉力”。可能是突然的，就像$ trump一样。或者它可以在较长的时间内发生，以曾经被称为“长骗局”。

The rug pull sometimes relies on the services of a celebrity. Let’s take a brief look at the case of Javier Milei in Argentina to understand how this works.

地毯拉力有时依赖于名人的服务。让我们简要介绍一下阿根廷的哈维尔·米利（Javier Milei）的案例，以了解这是如何工作的。

Enter Milei

进入麦莉

Argentine President Javier Milei is, to say the least, a heterodox economist. He pledged to cut government spending as a way of reining in inflation. He fired 30,000 government workers, eliminated government subsidies, and halted many public works projects. No surprise that Milei and his infamous chainsaw served as the inspiration for Musk and DOGE.

至少可以说，阿根廷总统哈维尔·米利（Javier Milei）是异教徒的经济学家。他承诺将政府支出削减，以此作为通货膨胀的一种方式。他解雇了30,000名政府工作人员，取消了政府补贴，并停止了许多公共工程项目。麦莉和他臭名昭著的电锯是马斯克和门槛的灵感并不奇怪。

Inflation in Argentina has indeed fallen, from nearly 300 percent to around 8

阿根廷的通货膨胀确实已经下降，从近300％到8个