特朗普的模因硬币特技提出了有关他对加密货币行业的立场的疑问

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统竞选成为白宫加密货币行业最大的拥护者，但现在有一些加密支持者质疑他在就职日之前几天创造了所谓的模因硬币之后声称。

President Donald Trump promised to become the cryptocurrency industry’s biggest advocate in the White House, but now some crypto supporters are questioning that claim after Trump created what is essentially a meme coin days before Inauguration Day.

唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统承诺将成为白宫加密货币行业的最大倡导者，但现在有一些加密货币支持者质疑特朗普在就职日之前几天就宣称特朗普创造了本质上是模因硬币的东西。

Going all in on such a dodgy element of the crypto universe, some in the big crypto supporters say, does not bode well for the industry. It began when Trump and First Lady Melania Trump rolled out a pair of memes coins they dubbed $TRUMP and $MELANIA. Both digital coins are a type of cryptocurrency that serves no purpose, cannot be exchanged for physical products, and whose value depends almost entirely on how long they can capture the attention of people who buy into the internet meme.

大加密支持者中的一些人说，全部涉及加密货币宇宙的狡猾元素，对该行业来说并不是一个好兆头。它始于特朗普和第一夫人梅拉尼亚·特朗普（Melania Trump）推出了他们称为$ trump和$ melania的两张模因硬币。两种数字硬币都是一种无目的的加密货币，无法换成物理产品，其价值几乎完全取决于他们可以吸引购买互联网模因的人们的注意力。

Even so, the market cap for the president’s token climbed to $8 billion yesterday afternoon, while the First Lady’s coin was pegged at about $710 million. It took most companies on the S&P 500 several years to reach multibillion dollar valuations.

即便如此，昨天下午，总统代币的市值攀升至80亿美元，而第一夫人的硬币的挂钩约为7.1亿美元。标准普尔500指数的大多数公司花了数十亿美元的估值。

Popular memes such as Dogecoin, whose mascot is a dog, and Fartcoin start as a joke with no real value but can surge in price if enough fans and unsophisticated investors buy them. Dogecoin is billionaire Elon Musk’s preferred memecoin. The project he heads that’s intended to help cull down government spending is called the Department of Government Efficiency — or Doge.

流行的模因，例如Dogecoin，他的吉祥物是狗，而Fartcoin则是一个笑话，没有真正的价值，但如果足够的粉丝和不老练的投资者购买它们，则可以涨幅。 Dogecoin是亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）的偏爱纪念物。他领导的项目旨在帮助降低政府支出的项目称为政府效率部或门槛。

Such coins are prone to pump and dump scams, where the creators of the coin drive up the price before dumping them on people who are not on the inside of the grift.

这样的硬币很容易抽出骗局，在将硬币的创造者推动了价格，然后将其倾倒在不在grift内部的人身上。

Trump played coy when asked about the launch.

当被问及发布会时，特朗普扮演了co。

Some in the cryptocurrency world are not happy with the decision, which came days before Trump took office.

加密货币世界中的一些人对这一决定不满意，这是在特朗普上任之前几天。

“Now, on the cusp of getting some liberalization of crypto regulations in this country, the main thing people are thinking about crypto is, ‘Oh, it’s just a casino for these meme coins,'” Nic Carter, a Trump supporter and partner at the crypto investment firm Castle Island Ventures, told ABC News. “It does the opposite of validating us, it makes it look completely unserious.”

“现在，在这个国家的加密法规中进行一些自由化的危险，人们正在考虑加密货币的主要事情是，'哦，这只是这些模因硬币的赌场'，”尼克·卡特（Nic Carter）加密投资公司Castle Island Ventures告诉美国广播公司新闻。 “它与验证我们相反，使它看起来完全不明显。”

The president ran on bringing regulatory clarity to digital coins. Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that sets up a crypto working group, which, among other things, is intended to evaluate the possible creation of a national digital asset stockpile.

总统跑步为数字硬币带来监管清晰度。特朗普在周四签署了一项行政命令，该命令建立了一个加密工作组，其中除其他外，旨在评估可能创建国家数字资产库存的可能性。

Despite the moves, others in the industry shared Carter’s opinion.

尽管采取了这种行动，但业内其他人也分享了卡特的看法。

“I really was kind of bummed out when I saw it,” Tom Schmidt, a partner at a crypto venture capital firm Dragonfly, told ABC. “It just felt very grifty and cheap.”

加密风险投资公司Dragonfly的合伙人汤姆·施密特（Tom Schmidt）告诉ABC：“当我看到它时，我真的很沮丧。” “感觉很肮脏和便宜。”

Carter and Schmidt’s comments come after the industry worked for months to rehabilitate the public image of digital coins, which had become synonymous with Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of failed crypto-exchange FTX. SBF — as he is called — was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion last year after being convicted of seven counts of fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.

卡特（Carter）和施密特（Schmidt）的评论是在该行业工作了几个月以恢复数字硬币的公共形象之后，这已成为失败的加密交换FTX的创始人Sam Bankman Fried的代名词。 SBF（正如他所谓的）被判处25年徒刑，并于去年被判处110亿美元，因为他被判犯有七项欺诈，阴谋和洗钱罪。

His trial was one of the most notorious cases of white-collar crime in the U.S., with some financiers calling SBF the Bernie Madoff of crypto, a reference to the man who was convicted of running the largest Ponzi scheme in world history.

他的审判是美国最臭名昭著的白领犯罪案件之一，一些金融家称SBF为Crypto的伯尼·麦道夫（Bernie Madoff）。

But now that the president of the United States is getting involved in the shadier side of the industry, all bets are off, according to Stephen Findeisen, better known as Coffeezilla on Twitter and YouTube.

但是，既然美国总统正在参与该行业的阴暗方面，据Stephen Findeisen说，所有赌注都关闭了。

Thursday’s executive order refers to Trump’s campaign promise of a so-called Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, a name coined after the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which is a government-controlled stockpile of oil located in underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas.

周四的行政命令是指特朗普的竞选承诺，即所谓的比特币战略储备，这是战略石油储备（SPR）的名称，这是一支政府控制的石油库存，位于路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州地下坦克。

Some industry insiders warn the idea might sound good, but it carries substantial risk for crypto supporters.

一些行业内部人士警告说，这个想法听起来不错，但它对加密支持者带来了重大风险。

“Be careful what you wish for,” Austin Campbell, CEO of global digital payments company WSPN, said on a recent Odd Lots podcast. He was referring to the reserve idea, which he claims could lead to the government tampering with the supply of Bitcoin.

全球数字支付公司WSPN首席执行官奥斯汀·坎贝尔（Austin Campbell）在最近的一个奇怪的播客中说：“要小心您想要的东西。”他指的是储备的想法，他声称这可能导致政府对比特币的供应进行篡改。

Much of the industry has historically been sold as a way of creating a digital currency that falls outside the government purview, Like the SPR, the U.S. government might find a justification for interfering with the technology used to mine cryptocurrencies, Campbell warns.

坎贝尔警告说，历史上许多行业的出售是一种创造一种数字货币的方式，它像SPR这样的数字货币之外，美国政府可能会发现干扰用于开采加密货币的技术的理由。

“If you’re telling them it’s strategic, be careful because they may actually agree with you and then start doing these things,” he said, referring to possible drone strikes targeting foreign crypto miners.

他说：“如果您告诉他们这是战略性的，请小心，因为他们实际上可能同意您，然后开始做这些事情。”

Going that route could prompt the industry to lose value and become another element of government-denominated currency, Campbell added.

坎贝尔补充说，这条路线可能会促使该行业失去价值，并成为政府贬低的货币的另一个要素。