特朗普发起了自己的加密货币，即“ $ trump”硬币，承诺使美国成为“地球的加密货币”

硅谷Glitterati，社交媒体的“影响者”和金融家在周五的总统就职典礼上聚集在华盛顿特区的加密舞会上，VIP门票的价格为100,000美元。

Guests at a pre-inauguration ball in Washington DC toasted the coming reign of Donald Trump as they nibbled on miniature lobster rolls and sipped mezcal cocktails.

在华盛顿特区的就职舞会上的客人敬酒了唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）即将到来的统治，因为他们在微型龙虾卷上ni咬了梅斯卡尔鸡尾酒。

The Silicon Valley glitterati, social media 'influencers' and financiers had gathered on the Friday before the presidential inauguration for the Crypto Ball, where VIP tickets cost a cool $100,000. They had much to celebrate.

硅谷Glitterati，社交媒体的“影响者”和金融家在总统就职典礼之前的星期五聚集在加密赛舞会上，VIP门票的价格为100,000美元。他们有很多要庆祝的。

Cryptocurrencies (digital 'tokens' that can be traded and are designed to be used as payment methods) were going mainstream and those who'd backed them were set to make their fortunes.

加密货币（可以交易并被设计为用作付款方式的数字“代币”）是主流的，而支持它们的人则将赚钱。

Back in July, Trump had promised to make America the 'crypto capital of the planet' by enacting new laws to pave the way for financial institutions and pension funds to invest in these controversial and risky assets, bringing them the respectability that has so far eluded them.

早在7月，特朗普曾承诺通过制定新法律来为金融机构和养老基金投资这些有争议和风险的资产，从而使他们成为迄今为止的尊重，这使美国成为“地球的加密之都”他们。

But then news started to filter out that night which horrified guests. Far from making crypto respectable, the new President had just opportunistically unveiled his own cryptocurrency, dubbed '$TRUMP', that couldっそも驚くべきことに、新しい大統領は、この暗号通貨を品位のあるものにするどころか、驚くべきことに、自分の暗号通貨を立ち上げるというまたとない機会を逃さなかったのです。この暗号通貨は「$TRUMP」と名付けられ、彼らがこれまで一生懸命取り組んできたすべてを台無しにする可能性がありました。 

但是，莱利（Lly）宣布了自己的加密货币，而不是使这种加密货币尊严，他并没有错过发射加密货币的机会。这种加密货币被命名为“ $ trump”，可能会破坏他们到目前为止所做的一切。

The Trump 'coin' was just created in digital code out of nothing – but suddenly it was worth billions.

特朗普的“硬币”刚刚用数字代码创建，但突然之间价值数十亿美元。

President Donald Trump with wife Melania at the Commander-in-Chief Ball following his inauguration this month

唐纳德·特朗普总统与妻子梅拉尼亚在本月就职后在总司令上

In a get-rich-quick scheme seemingly without parallel, the new 'currency' – with no intrinsic value, no utility and no purpose seemingly beyond adding to the President's wealth – soon made Trump and his companies $58billion richer, at least in theory, with its 200 million available coins trading at $75 a piece.

在一个富裕的计划中，新的“货币”似乎没有任何固有价值，没有实用性和目的似乎不仅增加了总统的财富 - 很快就使特朗普及其公司变得更加富裕，至少从理论上讲， ，其2亿枚硬币的交易价格为每块$ 75。

That is about twice the market capitalisation of Britain's largest supermarket chain Tesco – making him, briefly, one of the 25 richest people in the world.

这大约是英国最大的超市链特易购（Tesco）的市值的两倍，使他短暂地成为了世界上25个最富有的人之一。

Almost at a stroke, Trump increased his personal fortune nearly tenfold. It looked like the most sensational scheme for personal enrichment that the political world had even seen.

几乎在中风，特朗普增加了他的个人财富近十倍。它看起来像是政治世界甚至看到的最具轰动性的计划。

This vast fortune was, alas, only on paper, and predicated on the value of the horde of remaining coins that Trump holds, which are admittedly unlikely to retain their value.

可惜的是，这笔巨大的财富仅在纸上，并以特朗普拥有的剩余硬币的价值为基础，而这些硬币的价值不太可能保留其价值。

When Trump promoted his coin to his 99 million followers on X that Friday, it was trading at $7, having risen from just a few cents.

当特朗普在周五在X上将他的硬币推广到他的9900万追随者时，它的交易价格为7美元，仅从几美分开始。

By Sunday, it had soared to more than $75, although it later lost more than half its value before levelling out at a value of $27. There were unverified claims that one mysterious investor had bought more than $1million in coins just seconds after Trump's announcement on social media – standing to make a gargantuan profit.

到周日，它已经飙升至75美元以上，尽管后来损失了一半以上的价值，然后以27美元的价格缩放。有未经证实的说法，一位神秘的投资者在特朗普在社交媒体上宣布这一消息后仅几秒钟就购买了超过100万美元的硬币 - 代表赚钱。

Could that have been a member of the Trump clan? Who knows?

那是特朗普家族的成员吗？谁知道？

After its fall in value, Trump said of his cryptocurrency on Tuesday: 'I don't know much about it other than I launched it, other than it was very successful.'

特朗普在价值之后，谈到他周二的加密货币时说：“除了推出它，除了非常成功之外，我对此一无所知。”

So what was Trump doing? Why does he believe that having his own 'currency' is a good idea? And what happens next?

那特朗普在做什么？他为什么认为拥有自己的“货币”是个好主意？接下来会发生什么？

The President's former adviser Anthony Scaramucci accused his ex-boss of 'Idi Amin level corruption', a reference to the notoriously corrupt Ugandan dictator and kleptocrat.

总统的前顾问安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇（Anthony Scaramucci）指责他的前任“ idi amin级腐败”，这是对臭名昭著的腐败乌干达独裁者和克莱托克拉特（Kleptocrat）的提法。

Even his supporters were dismayed by what this signified – just days before his inauguration as President, Trump was jumping on the bandwagon of a scandal-plagued industry that he has previously dismissed as a 'scam'.

即使是他的支持者也对此表示沮丧 - 在担任总统就职典礼前几天，特朗普也跳上了一个丑闻困扰的行业的潮流，他以前被视为“骗局”。

The Melania Trump meme coin is now available to buy, with the price charts revealing its worth

Melania Trump Meme Coin现在可以购买，价格表揭示了其价值

Once upon a time, The Donald shared Wall Street's widespread scepticism about cryptocurrencies, insisting in 2019 that they 'are not money' and 'based on thin air', and – without regulation – 'can facilitate unlawful behaviour, including drug trade and other illegal activity'.

曾几何时，唐纳德（Donald）分享了华尔街对加密货币的广泛怀疑，并在2019年坚持认为他们“不是钱”和“基于稀薄的空气”，并且 - 没有管制，可以促进非法行为，包括毒品交易和其他非法行为活动'。

But more recently, and after $130million of election campaign funding from the crypto world, he had promised to dismantle the regulatory hurdles holding the industry back.

但是最近，在加密货币世界中获得了1.3亿美元的竞选活动资金之后，他承诺将拆除阻碍行业的监管障碍。

Certainly, in creating his own coin he showed breathtaking chutzpah.

当然，在制作自己的硬币时，他表现出令人叹为观止的chutzpah。

While some well-established digital currencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum (with a total valuation of more than $2trillion and $400billion respectively) can be used to buy some goods and services including Tesla cars, $Trump is of a far lesser category, a so-called 'meme coin'. These, almost by definition, are a joke – even if fortunes can be made and, more often, lost on them.

尽管一些公认的数字货币，例如比特币和以太坊（总估值分别超过200万亿美元和4亿美元）可用于购买包括特斯拉汽车在内的某些商品和服务，但特朗普的类别却少得多，较少的类别是所谓的“模因硬币”。从定义上讲，这些几乎是一个玩笑 - 即使可以赚钱，而且更常见于他们。

There are hundreds of different meme coins, whose names are often inspired by popular internet characters or events.

有数百种不同的模因硬币，其名称通常受到流行的互联网字符或事件的启发。

The first, launched in

第一个发射