特朗普的加密货币“打开了闸门进行欺骗”，专家警告说，数字冒名顶替者试图以他的名义兑现

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）称加密货币为“一个骗局”，在一月份的第二次​​就职典礼之前发起了自我命名且高度争议的模因硬币后发起了数十亿美元的理论财富。

Former president Donald Trump made a theoretical fortune of billions after launching his own meme coin, named after himself, ahead of his second inauguration in January.

前总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）在一月份的第二次​​就职典礼之前发起了自己的模因硬币，以自己的名字命名。

But an army of digital imposters have since tried to cash in on the president’s name and online presence to make their own crypto killing, a report in the Financial Times has revealed.

但是，《金融时报》上的一份报告显示，一群数字冒名顶替者试图以总统的名字和在线形象兑现，以杀死自己的加密货币。

Hundreds of “copycat and spam coins” were uploaded to Trump’s official wallet in cyberspace, with creators sending more than 700 new meme coins to the wallet in recent weeks, according to the report.

该报告称，数以百计的“模仿和垃圾邮件硬币”被上传到了特朗普在网络空间的官方钱包中，最近几周，创作者将700多个新的模因硬币送往钱包。

Many of the coins were named after Trump or his family members – but none of them had any formal connection.

许多硬币以特朗普或他的家人的名字命名 - 但它们都没有任何正式联系。

Speculators could be easily duped by the names, which made it seem like the fake coins were allied to the real $Trump cryptocurrency, experts said.

专家说，投机者很容易被这些名字欺骗，这似乎使假硬币与真正的$ trump加密货币相关。

The genuine coin has seen a precipitous collapse in value and those buying the fakes risked the digital equivalent of being taken to the cleaners, they added.

他们补充说，真正的硬币的价值崩溃了，那些购买假货的人冒着将数字等效的危险带给清洁剂的风险。

Eswar Prasad, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an economics professor at Cornell University, told the FT that by launching his own coin, Trump had “opened the floodgates to deception … and at a minimum to rampant speculation”.

布鲁金斯学会的高级研究员，康奈尔大学的经济学教授埃斯瓦尔·普拉萨德（Eswar Prasad）告诉英国银行（FT），特朗普（Trump）“开放了自己的硬币，“打开了欺骗的闸门……至少要猖rampthers”。

“Ordinary investors buying into fake or copycat coins just exposes them to enormous risk,” he said.

他说：“购买伪造或模仿硬币的普通投资者只会暴露出巨大的风险。”

More than 200 of the fake coins had Trump family names, including Official Trump and Official Melania.

伪造的硬币中有200多个有特朗普的姓氏，包括官方特朗普和官方梅拉尼亚。

The first lady launched her own official meme coin, $Melania, within days of her husband, which analysts say immediately halved the value of $Trump and sparked a slide that has continued since.

第一夫人在丈夫的几天之内发起了自己的官方模因硬币$ Melania，分析师说，立即将$ trump的价值减半，并引发了此后持续的幻灯片。

The names of four of Trump’s five children were also popular among the copycats, with his youngest son, Barron, accounting for 30, his daughter Ivanka next with 26, and older sons Don and Eric Jr with 14 between them.

特朗普的五个孩子中有四个孩子的名字在模仿者中也很受欢迎，他的小儿子巴伦（Barron）占30岁，他的女儿伊万卡（Ivanka）接下来有26岁，大儿子唐（Don）和埃里克（Eric Jr）与他们之间的14岁。

Other new cryptocurrency found in the Trump wallet featured names including “Elon” and “Musk”, referring to the world’s richest man and presidential acolyte currently taking a wrecking ball to US federal institutions as a designated “special government employee”.

特朗普钱包中发现的其他新加密货币的名字包括“埃隆”和“马斯克”，指的是世界上最富有的人和总统侍从目前将破坏球送给美国联邦机构，称为“特别政府雇员”。

Six of the fake coins used the same name and symbol as Trump’s official currency, while others were more obvious scams, including Official Hitler and Poo Coin.

六个假硬币中的六个使用了与特朗普的官方货币相同的名称和符号，而其他人则更明显，包括官方的希特勒和便便硬币。

The scammers were so keen to get in on the act that fakes began appearing almost immediately after the real thing, the FT said.

英国国民银行说，骗子非常热衷于采取行动，以至于假货在真实事物之后几乎立即开始出现。

The first copycat coin was “minted” within 29 minutes of the announcement of the official Trump coin on his Truth Social platform on 18 January, while a speculator ahead of the game deposited the first Melania coin into the Trump digital wallet more than a day before the authentic version was launched.

1月18日，在他的真相社交平台上宣布官方特朗普硬币后的29分钟内，第一个模仿硬币被“铸造”，而比赛前的一名投机者将第一枚梅拉尼亚硬币放入了特朗普数字钱包中。启动了真实的版本。

Trump’s dalliance with the crypto market, meanwhile, has drawn strong criticism from ethics watchdogs, economists and some industry insiders.

与此同时，特朗普对加密货币市场的打击使人们受到了伦理监管机构，经济学家和一些行业内部人士的强烈批评。

Prasad told the Guardian last month: “The Trump meme coin represents the intersection of Trump’s grifting tendencies and his administration’s embrace of cryptocurrencies, along with his dismissive attitude toward government regulation.”

普拉萨德（Prasad）上个月对《卫报》（Guardian）说：“特朗普模因硬币代表了特朗普的敏感趋势和政府对加密货币的拥抱的交汇，以及他对政府监管的不屑一顾的态度。”