星期五，马里兰州代表阿德里安·鲍阿福（D）和纽约议员克莱德·瓦内尔（Clyde Vanel）（D）向民主党国会领导人发了一封联合信，敦促他们在联邦一级通过全面的加密立法。

在这封信中，民选官员认为纽约州是加密法规的领导者，并建议将纽约的比特义用作联邦加密法规的模型。

On Friday, Maryland Delegate Adrian Boafo (D) and New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D) sent a joint letter to Democratic Congressional leaders urging them to pass comprehensive crypto legislation at the federal level.

星期五，马里兰州代表阿德里安·鲍阿福（D）和纽约议员克莱德·瓦内尔（Clyde Vanel）（D）向民主党国会领导人发了一封联合信，敦促他们在联邦一级通过全面的加密立法。

In the letter, the elected officials cited New York State as being a leader in crypto regulation and proposed that New York’s BitLicense be used as a model for what federal crypto regulation should look like. The letter’s authors also noted that New York State has placed a two-year moratorium on proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining that uses fossil fuels (seemingly citing this as something else the federal government might consider doing).

在这封信中，民选官员认为纽约州是加密法规的领导者，并建议将纽约的比特义用作联邦加密法规的模型。这封信的作者还指出，纽约州对使用化石燃料的工作证明加密货币开采进行了为期两年的暂停措施（似乎以联邦政府可能会考虑这样做的其他事情）。

It was upon reading these points in the letter that I realized that Democrats are capable of putting forward Bitcoin and crypto policy ideas stupider than what former Vice President Harris proposed in October 2024, which was “a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and other digital assets [that protects] Black men who invest in and own these assets.”

正是通过在信中读到这些观点后，我意识到民主党人能够提出比特币和加密政策的想法，而不是前副总统哈里斯于2024年10月提出的，这是“加密货币和其他数字资产的监管框架，[保护]投资并拥有这些资产的黑人。”

(Please note that I’m in favor of a regulatory framework that protects the right of Black men to invest in crypto assets. I’m also in favor of one that protects the right of Asian men, Hispanic men, White men, and Indigenous men to do the same. Oh, and I’d like for whatever Bitcoin and crypto policy we craft here in the U.S. to protect the right of women and transgender people of all races to invest in bitcoin and crypto, as well.)

（请注意，我赞成一个监管框架，该框架可以保护黑人投资于加密资产的权利。我也赞成保护亚洲男人，西班牙裔男人，白人男人，白人和土著人做同样的权利的框架。哦，我希望在这里为自己的比特币和加油而努力保护女性和跨性别的人，我希望在这里为您提供任何竞争者和跨性别的人。

With that said, let me break down why the U.S. federal government’s creating something comparable to New York’s BitLicense and putting a mining moratorium on Bitcoin miners that use any amount of fossil fuels would be a bad idea.

话虽如此，让我打破为什么美国联邦政府创造了与纽约的比特莱森特相提并论的东西，并将使用任何数量化石燃料的比特币矿工暂停采矿暂停是个坏主意。

And please forgive me in advance for being emotional at points. This issue is personal to me, as I’m a resident of New York State and have experienced firsthand the damage that politicians and bureaucrats have done to the Bitcoin and crypto industry in the state.

并请事先原谅我在某个点上情绪激动。这个问题对我来说是个人的，因为我是纽约州的居民，并且亲身经历了政客和官僚对该州比特币和加密货币行业所造成的损害。

The BitLicense

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New York State requires that all virtual currency businesses that operate in the state obtain a BitLicense.

纽约州要求在该州运营的所有虚拟货币业务都会获得比较。

At face value, obtaining a license to operate a business seems harmless enough. But once you learn that it takes months to years to complete all of the paperwork and to jump through all of the hoops required to obtain one and that it costs upward of $100,000 to go through this process, you quickly see why so many established companies in the space — never mind the early-stage start-ups — don’t even start the process.

从表面上看，获得经营业务的许可似乎无害。但是，一旦您得知要完成所有文书工作并跳过获得一个需要的所有篮球，并且要经历这一过程的成本高达100,000美元，那么您很快就会看到为什么在该空间中如此众多成熟的公司 - 不介意早期的初创企业 - 甚至不启动这一过程。

Because of the BitLicense, New York State residents cannot use reputable platforms like Strike, River, Swan, and Kraken. Nor can they use Lightning on CashApp or the fiat-to-bitcoin exchange on Fold. This is only to name few of the Bitcoin/crypto products and services that we can’t use because of red tape.

由于有比较，纽约州居民无法使用罢工，河流，天鹅和克莱肯等知名平台。他们也不能在CashApp上使用Lightning或Fold的Fiat-to-Bitcoin交换。这仅举几个由于繁文tape节无法使用的比特币/加密产品和服务。

But what’s perhaps more of a slap in the face is that when you attempt to use some of these platforms as a New York State resident, you’re presented with messages such as “This exchange doesn’t serve residents of jurisdictions including New York State, Iran, Syria and North Korea.”

但是，也许更多的是，当您尝试将其中一些平台作为纽约州立居民时，您会收到诸如“这种交流不为纽约州，伊朗，叙利亚和朝鲜在内的司法管辖区居民服务的信息”。

TRULY FUCKING STAGGERING THE COMPANY THAT NEW YORK POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS HAVE PUT NEW YORK RESIDENTS IN.

真正地使纽约政治家和官僚们把纽约居民加入的公司打破了这家公司。

If we were to apply the BitLicense on a federal level, we would deeply stifle innovation and entrepreneurship, as not only would we greatly hinder the Bitcoin and crypto companies that have the money and resources to go through the process of obtaining a federal BitLicense, but we’d create a moat around them while creating a scenario in which the start-ups that can’t afford to go through the process either close up shop or simply not serve U.S. citizens.

如果我们要在联邦一级应用Bitlicensens，我们将深深地扼杀创新和企业家精神，因为我们不仅会阻碍拥有金钱和资源的比特币和加密公司，而且要经历联邦政府的Bitlicense的过程，我们会在周围创造一个场景的情况下，无法实现跨越群体的风景，或者不仅可以通过近距离地进行商店，也无法实现该风景。

A federal BitLicense would be a major hindrance to President Trump’s accomplishing his goal of making the United States the Bitcoin superpower and the crypto capital of the world. (Maybe that’s why these Democrats proposed it?)

联邦比特莱也将是特朗普总统实现他的目标，即使美国成为世界上的超级大国和加密之都。 （也许这就是为什么这些民主党人提出的原因？）

The Mining Moratorium

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While I know that burning fossil fuels is detrimental to the environment and I believe that human-made climate change is a real thing, I’m also a proponent of people being gainfully employed and industries being able to flourish.

虽然我知道燃烧化石燃料对环境有害，而且我相信人为的气候变化是真实的事情，但我也是人们被有钱的人民和行业能够蓬勃发展的拥护者。

And in upstate New York, there’s been a notable lack of both since factories began closing down in the region after World War II.

在纽约北部，由于第二次世界大战后该地区开始关闭工厂，这两个都缺乏两者。

What’s replaced gainful employment in factories in many parts of upstate New York are service-sector jobs that barely enable workers to make ends meet.

在纽约州北部许多地方，取代有酬工作的是服务部门的工作，几乎使工人能够维持生计。

The urban blight in most cities in upstate New York is so palpable that it’s nauseating.

纽约北部大多数城市的城市疫病是如此明显，以至于令人作呕。

What we could do to revive upstate New York is invite the Bitcoin mining industry in. Sure, Bitcoin mining companies might burn some fossil fuels to power their operations at first, but as Bitcoin mining incentivizes renewable energy production, they could move away from fossil fuels as their source of energy.

我们可以采取的措施来复兴纽约上州的是邀请比特币采矿业进入。当然，比特币矿业公司一开始可能会燃烧一些化石燃料以为其运营提供动力，但是随着比特币挖掘激励可再生能源的能源生产，他们可能会从化石燃料中移开作为能源的来源。

Also, if the likes of Assemblyman Vanel and

另外，如果像议员Vanel和