特朗普通过先令加密货币来挤满他的总统数十亿美元

这位前总统及其家人无耻地从他们最喜欢的行业中获利。

President Trump’s family cryptocurrency meme coins — the $TRUMP and $MELANIA cryptocurrency coins — had a combined market value on Friday of about $6 billion.

特朗普总统的家庭加密货币模因硬币（特朗普$ and Melania加密货币硬币）在周五的总市场价值约为60亿美元。

Days before taking the oath of office, Trump announced on his social media platform the creation of the $TRUMP coin, featuring Trump’s image from the July assassination attempt and said: “Join the Trump Community. This is History in the Making!”

在宣誓就职的几天前，特朗普在他的社交媒体平台上宣布了$特朗普硬币的创建，其特征是特朗普在7月的暗杀企图中的形象，并说：“加入特朗普社区。这就是历史！”

The $MELANIA coin soon followed.

紧随其后的是$ Melania硬币。

Despite no details about the coin’s value, use, or risks, Trump supporters, gamblers, and those wishing to suck up to Trump bought it — sending the coin’s price into the stratosphere. On paper, the Trump family is now several billion dollars richer.

尽管没有关于硬币，使用或风险的细节，但特朗普的支持者，赌徒和希望吸引特朗普的人买了它 - 将硬币的价格寄入了平流层。在纸上，特朗普一家现在更加丰富。

Trump once denounced crypto, but as the crypto industry poured tens of millions of dollars into 2024 campaigns, he changed his mind. Not only did he see the political power of the crypto industry he saw an opportunity to make a pile of money.

特朗普曾经谴责加密货币，但是当加密货币行业投入到2024年的竞选活动中，他改变了主意。他不仅看到了加密货币行业的政治力量，而且还看到了赚钱的机会。

He then promised to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet.”

然后，他答应使美国成为“地球的加密首都”。

In September, the Trump family started World Liberty Financial, which they marketed as a platform to facilitate borrowing and lending in digital currencies. (Trump receives a cut of the sales of WLFI, the cryptocurrency associated with the platform.)

9月，特朗普一家开始了世界自由金融，他们将其作为促进数字货币借贷和贷款的平台销售。 （特朗普收到了与该平台相关的加密货币的销售削减。）

Now that he’s taken office, Trump plans to make billions off his presidency by implementing policies that favor crypto.

现在，他已经上任，特朗普计划通过执行支持加密货币的政策来裁员数十亿美元。

The truth about crypto

关于加密的真相

Cryptocurrencies serve no useful purpose other than the purchase of other crypto assets, money laundering, extortion and scams. As economist Paul Krugman has said, their market value rests on nothing but “technobabble and libertarian derp.”

除了购买其他加密资产，洗钱，勒索和骗局外，加密货币没有其他有用的目的。正如经济学家保罗·克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）所说的那样，他们的市场价值除了“技术摩托车和自由主义者德普”之外。

They also use huge amounts of energy.

他们还使用大量的能量。

And if they infiltrate Wall Street, they could destabilize the entire financial system.

如果他们渗入华尔街，他们可能会破坏整个金融体系的稳定。

The crypto industry has a dubious reputation. Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges, was last year sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud. Changpeng Zhao, founder of a rival exchange, has spent four months locked up for money-laundering.

加密行业享有可疑的声誉。 FTX的创始人Sam Bankman Fried是世界上最大的加密交易所之一，去年被判处25年徒刑。竞争对手交易所的创始人Changpeng Zhao花了四个月的时间锁定洗钱。

But the richest people in America with huge power — the oligarchy, including Trump — support cryptocurrencies. Not only can they make a fortune, but crypto advances their long-term aim of shifting financial controls out of a democratically elected system of government and into their own hands.

但是，拥有巨大力量的美国最富有的人 - 包括特朗普在内的寡头 - 支持加密货币。他们不仅可以发财，而且加密货币的长期目标是将财务控制从民主当选的政府制度转移到自己手中。

Trump II and crypto

特朗普二世和加密

Now that he’s president, Trump is actively promoting crypto — reversing Biden’s attempts to prevent the crypto industry from infiltrating Wall Street.

既然他是总统，特朗普正在积极促进加密货币 - 扭转了拜登试图防止加密工业渗透华尔街的尝试。

Biden’s tight rules made it prohibitively expensive for banks to hold digital assets on behalf of clients and stopped them from developing their own crypto products, such as stablecoins (tokens pegged to the dollar or other assets).

拜登的严格规定使银行代表客户持有数字资产并阻止他们开发自己的加密产品（例如stablecoins）（Tokens（Tokens coggge coggge to to Mollar或其他资产）），这非常昂贵。

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a watchdog, stopped dozens of such projects on the basis that it did not know how digital assets ought to be treated in regulatory filings.

一名监管机构联邦存款保险公司（FDIC）停止了数十个此类项目，因为它不知道该如何在监管文件中对数字资产进行处理。

With Trump, though, banks and the crypto industry are now pushing in the same direction and face little resistance. New and enormously profitable forms of risk-taking are emerging — for a small group of people able to take such risks and able (like the Trump family) to profit off their own crypto products.

然而，随着特朗普的发展，银行和加密货币行业现在正朝着同一方向前进，几乎没有阻力。新的和盈利的冒险形式正在出现 - 对于一小群人来说，能够承担这种风险并能够（例如特朗普家族）获利的一小部分人都可以从自己的加密产品中获利。

Trump is putting crypto-friendly people into place at key federal agencies, boosting its prospects. In December, he picked Washington lawyer Paul Atkins, a known crypto booster, to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, America’s main financial regulator.

特朗普正在关键联邦机构将加密友好的人置于其前景。去年12月，他选择了华盛顿律师保罗·阿特金斯（Paul Atkins），他是一位已知的加密货币助推器，主持美国主要的金融监管机构证券交易委员会。

Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission altered its guidance so that financial institutions no longer have to account, on their own balance-sheets, for crypto assets held on behalf of customers. The SEC rolled back accounting guidance that had deterred banks from getting involved with crypto.

上周，美国证券交易委员会更改了指导，因此金融机构不再需要按照自己的资产库来考虑代表客户持有的加密资产。 SEC退回会计指导，阻止了银行参与加密货币。

Trump has tapped the venture investor and digital currency enthusiast David Sacks to oversee administration policies on crypto (and artificial intelligence).

特朗普聘请了风险投资者和数字货币爱好者戴维·萨克斯（David Sacks），以监督有关加密货币（和人工智能）的管理政策。

Then, this past Thursday, Trump issued an executive order committing the Trump administration to “protecting and promoting” the crypto industry:

然后，在过去的星期四，特朗普发布了一项行政命令，承诺特朗普政府“保护和促进”加密货币行业：

“The digital asset industry plays a crucial role in innovation and economic development in the United States, as well as our nation’s international leadership. It is therefore the policy of my administration to support the responsible growth and use of digital assets.”

“数字资产行业在美国以及我们国家的国际领导力中在创新和经济发展中起着至关重要的作用。因此，我政府的政策是支持负责任的数字资产增长和使用。”

The order gives his administration authority to establish a national cryptocurrency stockpile — a stash of digital coins that the crypto industry has spent months lobbying the new administration for because it further legitimizes crypto and adds to the demand for it.

该命令赋予他的政府授权，以建立国家加密货币库存，这是一大堆数字硬币，加密货币行业花了几个月的时间游说新政府，因为它进一步使加密货币合法化并增加了对其的需求。

Trump’s order also prohibits the creation of a “central bank digital currency” overseen by the government. And the order promises “fair and open access to banking services” for crypto (responding to complaints from crypto companies that banks have denied them accounts).

特朗普的命令还禁止建立政府监督的“中央银行数字货币”。该命令承诺对加密货币（Crypto）的“公平开放访问银行服务”（回应加密公司的投诉，银行拒绝了他们的帐户）。

In effect, Trump is writing the rules for a business venture from which he and his family are personally profiting. It

实际上，特朗普正在为他和他的家人个人从中获利的企业撰写规则。它