It is not particularly fashionable to point out when Donald Trump gets something right (whether accidentally or not). But for the record, back in 2021 he was right about crypto. Having two years earlier pointed out that crypto is “not money” and that its value is “based on thin air”, the former president said bitcoin “just seems like a scam”, suggested crypto was “a disaster waiting to happen”, and said “the bitcoins of the world” should be regulated “very, very high” [sic].
指出唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)在某些事情上是正确的（无论是偶然还是有意）并不特别时髦。但是，值得记录的是，早在2021年，他就对加密货币的问题是正确的。两年前，他指出加密货币“不是货币”，其价值“基于虚无”，这位前总统表示比特币“似乎只是一个骗局”，暗示加密货币是“一场等待发生的灾难”，并表示“世界上的比特币”应该受到“非常非常高”的监管。
That was less than a year before the world of crypto imploded spectacularly. From May 2022 onwards, a series of exchanges, tokens and other crypto projects collapsed in quick succession, wiping out tens of billions of dollars in supposed “value” overnight. Crypto prices and the market for “NFTs” — a type of digital token that is just as worthless as any other but pretends to be otherwise — tanked. Regulators had not only been failing to regulate crypto “very very high”; they had been asleep at the wheel. In December of that year, crypto’s most notorious criminal, the man known as SBF, was arrested on charges of fraud and conspiracy that he would later be given a 25-year prison sentence for.
那是在加密货币世界惨败的不到一年前。从2022年5月开始，一系列的交易所、代币和其他加密项目相继崩溃，一夜之间摧毁了数百亿美元的所谓“价值”。加密货币价格和“非同质化代币”（一种与其他任何代币一样毫无价值但假装有价值的数字代币）的市场暴跌。监管机构不仅未能对加密货币进行“非常非常高”的监管，而且一直在疏忽职守。当年12月，加密货币界最臭名昭著的罪犯SBF因欺诈和阴谋罪被捕，后来被判处25年监禁。