Donald Trump has been on quite a journey since the days when he said bitcoin “seems like a scam”. This week, the Trump family media company said it was raising $2.5bn from investors to buy up the cryptocurrency. His sons Eric and Donald Jr promised thousands of orange-clad bitcoin investors in Las Vegas a bonanza, in part because, as his vice-president JD Vance told the same conference, “crypto finally has a champion and an ally in the White House”. Bitcoin has hit a recent record high on optimism that US lawmakers will soon agree their first crypto regulations — for stablecoins, or digital tokens pegged to the dollar or another currency.
自從唐納•川普曾表示比特幣「看起來像個騙局」以來，他已經走過了不平凡的歷程。本週，川普家族的媒體公司宣佈將從投資者那裏籌集25億美元，用於收購這種加密貨幣。他的兒子艾瑞克和小唐納•川普(Donald Jr)在拉斯維加斯(Las Vegas)向成千上萬身穿橙色的比特幣投資者承諾將帶來一場盛宴，部分原因是，正如他的副總統JD•范錫(JD Vance)在同一會議上所說，「加密貨幣終於在白宮有了支持者和盟友」。由於市場樂觀地認爲美國立法者很快將就首個加密貨幣監管——針對穩定幣達成一致，比特幣近期創下新高。