加密货币的氛围：当Tulipmania遇到美国薄荷

怀俄明州共和党参议员辛西娅·卢米斯（Cynthia Lummis）提出的一项提议将建立“联邦政府的第一个国家战略比特币储备”，同时“放松对该行业的法规”

A columnist rushes to buy $TRUMP crypto meme coins but finds no takers. This leads her on a meditation on the nature of value, currency, and crypto.

一位专栏作家急于购买$ trump Crypto Meme硬币，但没有发现。这使她对价值，货币和加密性的性质进行了冥想。

I rushed to my computer to stock up on $TRUMP crypto meme coins, but I couldn’t find a place that would take my money for nothing.

我赶到我的计算机上储存$ trump Crypto Meme硬币，但我找不到可以花钱的地方。

You might pause at the getting-nothing-for-something scenario, but that just shows how we are all psychological prisoners to dead tree currency, or so our Crypto Edgelords would have us believe.

您可能会因为没有待命的场景而停下来，但这仅仅表明了我们如何成为心理囚犯死树货币，或者我们的加密货币Edgelords会让我们相信。

But nothing for something is the genius at the heart of crypto meme coins!

但是，没有什么东西是加密模因硬币的核心天才！

You buy a coin, or part of one, using your money, which is a Some Thing. In exchange you get a piece of a crypto meme No Thing.

您使用您的钱购买一枚硬币或一部分，这是一件事情。作为交换，您会得到一块加密模因。

Well, not a real, actual No Thing.

好吧，不是真实的，实际上没有事。

Not a black hole kind of nothing, which can be mathematically measured and verified. More like a concept of a No Thing.

没有一个黑洞，可以在数学上测量和验证。更像是一个不做任何事的概念。

You see, in the beginning, when dairy farmer Bob wanted something other than cereal for breakfast, he and chicken farmer Abe bartered little red hens and fat brown cows. This was awkward. It did not fit into a wallet, or even, eventually, entire barns.

您会发现，一开始，当奶农鲍勃（Bob）想要早餐以外的其他东西时，他和鸡肉农民安倍堡（Abe Abe Abe Abe）换了小红母鸡和脂肪棕色的母牛。这很尴尬。它不适合钱包，甚至最终都没有整个谷仓。

And so there was money. Money represents a Thing. The dollar represents a claim upon the economic resources and credit of the U.S., which is a Very Big Thing, and which, despite the incalculable devastation wreaked by the great egg price horror of 2023, remains alive and kicking. For (checks watch) now.

所以有钱。金钱代表了一件事情。美元代表着对美国的经济资源和信贷的主张，这是一件很大的事情，尽管2023年巨大的鸡蛋价格恐怖造成了不可估量的破坏，但仍保持活力和踢球。现在（检查）。

Your crypto meme coin might be worth $90 million next Tuesday, if investors’ random positive feelings about your No Thing prompts them to part with some of their own Some Things — or 90 cents on Wednesday, if they all get a headache.

如果投资者对您的无能为力的随机积极感觉会促使他们与自己的某些东西分开，或者在星期三的90美分，如果他们都头疼，那么您的加密模因硬币可能会价值9000万美元。

Because this is where the smart money is, people! Currency not valued on a nation’s good faith and credit, or goods, or services, or even surplus hens, but the vibes of investors. Whimsical, paradoxical, ketamine-fueled vibes.

因为这是聪明的钱，人们！货币不重视一个国家的诚信，信贷，商品或服务，甚至是剩余母鸡，而是投资者的共鸣。异想天开，悖论，氯胺酮燃料的氛围。

Take the PNUT crypto meme coin, created because many, many investors were outraged over Peanut the Squirrel’s arrest and euthanasia by New York City, including noted rodent aficionados Elon Musk and Donald Trump. A meme coin memorialized his furry little legend. On Dec. 12, a PNUT coin was trading at $1.35 and had a market cap of $1.3 billion. Last week, it traded at 36 cents and had a market cap of $359 million.

以Pnut加密模因硬币的形式创建，因为许多许多投资者对纽约市的花生对松鼠的逮捕和安乐死感到愤怒，其中包括著名的啮齿动物迷Elon Musk和Donald Trump。一个模因纪念他的毛茸茸的小传奇。 12月12日，Pnut硬币的交易价格为1.35美元，市值为13亿美元。上周，它以36美分的价格交易，市值为3.59亿美元。

See how well that works?

看到它的工作效果吗？

Better yet, it’s all secret. So, your neighbor or a squirrel masseuse or a foreign power seeking malign influence under cover of crypto can surreptitiously funnel money to PNUT without anyone knowing!

更好的是，这都是秘密。因此，您的邻居或松鼠的按摩师或寻求恶性影响的外国权力在加密货币的掩护下可能会秘密地向Pnut筹集资金，而没有人知道！

I would not want to mix up serious cryptocurrency with a meme coin, and specifically, not with $TRUMP meme coins, described as “an extreme case of sh-tcoinery” by a vice president at Swan, a BItcoin financial services company. But there are similarities.

我不想将严重的加密货币与模因硬币混为一谈，特别是与$ trump Meme Coins一起，被比特币金融服务公司Swan副总裁称为“ Sh-Tcoinery的极端情况”。但是有相似之处。

Let’s talk about tulips!

让我们谈谈郁金香！

Back in the 1600s, when Holland was in the grip of Tulipmania, a single bulb of Semper Augustus could command 12 acres of land. Not that there were a lot of physical transactions. The Dutch described tulip contract sales as “wind trade” because the real money was in contracts to buy tulips, more and more paper promises swapped for more and more money, until it all fell apart.

早在1600年代，当荷兰在塔利普曼尼亚（Tulipmania）的抓地力中时，一个塞姆珀（Semper）奥古斯都（Semper Augustus）的一个球体可以命令12英亩的土地。并不是说有很多物理交易。荷兰语将郁金香合同销售描述为“风交易”，因为真正的钱是购买郁金香的合同，越来越多的纸张承诺将越来越多的钱换成，直到一切都崩溃了。

And that, boys and girls, is why we have dikes in Holland today, to hold back the bitter, bitter tears shed by people who had a house and a family and then a vibe and a promise of a bulb and then no house and no family and the concept of a flower.

这就是男孩和女孩，这就是为什么我们今天在荷兰有堤防的原因，忍受了有房子和家人，然后是一个氛围和灯泡的承诺，然后没有房子，没有房子的人，没有，没有房子，没有家庭和花的概念。

So when I tell you that there is a serious Washington proposal to back up a truck to the U.S. Mint and unload a whole lot of crypto No Things, for which the U.S. will give crypto sellers billions and billions of taxpayer’s Hard Earned Some Things, it’s appropriate to feel a little apprehensive.

因此，当我告诉您有一项严重的华盛顿提议将卡车备份到美国造币厂并卸下很多加密货币，美国将为加密货币卖方和数十亿美元的纳税人付出了一些辛苦赚来的东西，这就是适合感到有些忧虑。

This plan, offered by Wyoming Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis, will establish “the federal government’s first National Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” while simultaneously “easing regulations for the sector” or, as Trump called this concept of an idea four short years ago, “potentially a disaster waiting to happen.”

怀俄明州共和党参议员辛西娅·卢米斯（Cynthia Lummis）提供的该计划将建立“联邦政府的第一个国家战略比特币储备”，同时同时“放松该行业的法规”，或者，特朗普在不到几年前就这一想法称为“可能”一场等待发生的灾难。”

But vibes shift. “I don’t know much about it other than I launched it,” the president said of $TRUMP last week.

但是共鸣也改变了。总统上周谈到特朗普时说：“除了发起它，我对此并不了解。”

Never too soon to start stocking up on little red hens.

永远不要太早开始存放小红母鸡。

Pat Beall is a Sun Sentinel columnist and editorial writer. Contact her at beall.news@gmail.com

Pat Beall是Sun Sentinel专栏作家和社论作家。通过beall.news@gmail.com与她联系