苏富比副总裁 Michael Bouhanna 在以艺术为主题的加密货币赚了 100 万美元后被指控内幕交易

Bouhanna——不仅是苏富比副总裁，也是他们的当代艺术专家以及数字艺术和 NFT 主管

Sotheby’s Vice President Michael Bouhanna has been accused of insider trading after making $1 million on an art-themed cryptocurrency, according to posts on social media and Medium.

据社交媒体和 Medium 上的帖子显示，苏富比副总裁迈克尔·布哈纳 (Michael Bouhanna) 在以艺术为主题的加密货币上赚了 100 万美元后，被指控进行内幕交易。

Bouhanna, who is also Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Specialist and Head of Digital Art and NFTs, plays a major role in operating the fine arts auction company.

Bouhanna 也是苏富比当代艺术专家以及数字艺术和 NFT 主管，在运营这家美术拍卖公司方面发挥着重要作用。

Bouhanna’s profile on the Sotheby’s website highlights his achievements in driving the company into the digital art world. But his status has also landed him in hot water after social media users found that he anonymously created a “meme coin” that quickly became wildly profitable in the cryptocurrency universe.

布哈纳在苏富比网站上的简介强调了他在推动公司进入数字艺术世界方面所取得的成就。但在社交媒体用户发现他匿名创建了一种“模因币”后，他的地位也让他陷入了困境，该币很快在加密货币领域获得了巨大的利润。

The currency was based on Maurizio Cattelan’s conceptual art piece Comedian (2019), where a fresh banana is duct taped to a wall. The piece resurfaced and went viral for a second time after Sotheby’s announced that they will be featuring Cattelan’s piece in their upcoming “Now and Contemporary Evening Auction,” where it is projected to sell for $1.5 million.

该货币基于毛里齐奥·卡特兰 (Maurizio Cattelan) 的概念艺术作品《喜剧演员》(Comedian)（2019 年），其中一根新鲜香蕉被用胶带粘在墙上。在苏富比宣布他们将在即将举行的“现在及当代晚间拍卖”中展出卡特兰的作品后，这件作品再次出现并再次走红，预计售价为 150 万美元。

After Sotheby’s announced their involvement in selling Cattelan’s piece, Bouhanna anonymously created the “meme coin” called Comedian, or $BAN. According to Art Net, the coin became profitable incredibly quickly, citing a post on Medium saying that “an initial investment of $1,795” rose to “$873,000 in merely two days.”

在苏富比宣布参与销售卡特兰的作品后，布哈纳匿名创建了一种名为 Comedian 或 $BAN 的“模因币”。据 Art Net 报道，该代币的盈利速度令人难以置信，并援引 Medium 上的一篇帖子称，“最初投资 1,795 美元”在短短两天内就增加到了“873,000 美元”。

Soon after users online were able to identify Bouhanna as the creator of $BAN, suspicions about Bouhanna’s status in the digital art and cryptocurrency world spread quickly, questioning how this might have affected the coin’s profitable success.

在网上用户能够识别 Bouhanna 为 $BAN 的创建者后不久，对 Bouhanna 在数字艺术和加密货币世界中地位的怀疑迅速蔓延，质疑这可能如何影响该代币的盈利成功。

One particular instance of a trader profiting $1 million on the coin escalated suspicions surrounding Bouhanna, propelling accusations that the Sotheby’s Vice President used his connections in the cryptocurrency community to conduct an insider trading scheme—accusing Bouhanna of encouraging those he is connected with to buy the coin and garner more attention to it to maximize its value.

一名交易员从该代币中获利 100 万美元的一个特殊例子加剧了人们对 Bouhanna 的怀疑，引发了对苏富比副总裁利用其在加密货币社区的关系进行内幕交易计划的指控——指责 Bouhanna 鼓励与他有联系的人购买该代币。硬币并获得更多关注以最大化其价值。

Bouhanna wrote a lengthy post on X profusely denying the accusations of insider trading, saying that he did not “promote BAN or encourage anyone to buy it” and that the accusation that he profited $1 million dollars from the coin is “completely false.”

Bouhanna 在 X 上发表了一篇长文，极力否认有关内幕交易的指控，称他没有“提倡 BAN 或鼓励任何人购买它”，并且他从该代币中获利 100 万美元的指控“完全错误”。

Bouhanna said that he chose to launch the coin anonymously because of his status in the art world and involvement with its auction company, not expecting it to go viral.

布哈纳表示，他选择匿名发行这枚硬币是因为他在艺术界的地位以及与拍卖公司的关系，并没有想到它会像病毒一样传播开来。

“When I created BAN, I shared the link with a small group of friends with whom I often exchange NFT and memecoin projects, again without advising them to buy it,” said Bouhanna.

Bouhanna 表示：“当我创建 BAN 时，我与一小群朋友分享了这个链接，我经常与他们交换 NFT 和 memecoin 项目，但同样没有建议他们购买。”

Bouhanna cited his creation of the coin not to Comedian’s current virality, but to his appreciation for its “conceptual questioning of value,” calling his actions a “satirical critique” and “a pointed commentary on the volatile, meme-driven crypto market.”

Bouhanna 引用他创造这种货币的原因并不是喜剧演员目前的病毒式传播，而是他对其“价值概念质疑”的赞赏，称他的行为是“讽刺性批评”和“对不稳定的、迷因驱动的加密市场的尖锐评论”。

He also denied Sotheby’s affiliation with the coin or the profits that might have been derived from it.

他还否认苏富比与该硬币有任何关系或可能从中获得的利润。

Sotheby’s has yet to comment on the controversy as they continue to prepare for the widely anticipated auction of Cattelan’s Comedian later this month.

苏富比尚未对这一争议发表评论，因为他们仍在为本月晚些时候广受期待的卡特兰喜剧演员拍卖做准备。