特朗普为何改变对比特币的看法？

“我不喜欢比特币和其他加密货币，它们不是钱，其价值极不稳定，而且凭空而来。不受监管的加密资产可能会助长非法行为，包括毒品交易和其他非法活动。”

值得庆幸的是，自从唐纳德·J·特朗普总统在 2019 年以毫不妥协的言辞谴责新兴的加密行业以来，共和党的官方立场发生了巨大变化。

本月初，共和党全国委员会通过了一项雄心勃勃的平台，以促进美国数字资产行业的创新并保护比特币持有者的权利。

首先，官方平台承诺共和党将“捍卫比特币挖矿的权利”。这代表着对现任政府政策的迫切需要转变。

今年 2 月，美国能源部能源信息署 (EIA) 向比特币挖矿公司发出了一项“紧急”调查，要求提供高度敏感的信息，例如所用机器的规格、挖矿作业的具体位置以及与其商业能源合作伙伴有关的合同信息。EIA 不仅要求提供所有这些信息，还承诺公布其中最敏感的部分。

这一举措是对比特币矿工活动的前所未有的侵犯，也是对加密行业的大规模攻击。它促使德克萨斯州区块链委员会等组织发起法律诉讼，试图保护加密行业的权利免受联邦政府的侵犯。因此，共和党人承诺“捍卫比特币开采权”，这非常受欢迎。

共和党还做出了其他令人鼓舞的承诺。共和党表示，他们将“确保每个美国人都有权保管自己的数字资产，并在不受政府监视和控制的情况下进行交易。”

他们也强烈反对 CBDC 的想法。“共和党将结束民主党非法、非美国的加密货币打击行动，并反对创建中央银行数字货币，”该党表示。

当然，这一切对于数字资产行业的倡导者来说都是非常令人鼓舞的。但这仍然引出了一个问题。是什么促使特朗普总统改变主意并开始接受数字资产和去中心化金融的巨大潜力？这一支持数字资产的议程是如何成为总统政治关注的焦点的？

If there is one man who has contributed more than anybody else to changing Republicans’ mind on crypto, it is Vivek Ramaswamy. The former Republican presidential candidate and entrepreneur is clearly having increasing amounts of influence on the GOP inner circle. At the Republican Convention this month, Donald Trump Jr joked that he would like Ramaswamy to be his running mate in 2036. Indeed, ever since his presidential bid last year, it is clear that he has been one of the leading voices at the upper echelons of the Republicans guiding the party in a more pro-crypto direction.

Ramaswamy made waves in GOP circles when, at the North American Blockchain Summit in Texas last year, he released a detailed and comprehensive plan for the US crypto space.

What did he pledge to do? Perhaps the most eye-catching measure was his promise to fire most of the employees at the bloated Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and order the rest to stop trying to bully the crypto industry. Importantly, Ramaswamy defines many cryptocurrencies like bitcoin as commodities that are therefore not under the jurisdiction of the SEC.

“I think it’s nothing short of embarrassing that Gary Gensler, the current leader of the SEC, in front of Congress could not even say whether Ethereum counted as a regulated security or not,” Ramaswamy said during one of the Republican debates last year. “This is just another example of the administrative state gone too far.”

Ramaswamy has been a vocal advocate for innovation in the crypto space and the use of decentralized digital currencies as a tool for financial freedom. He has argued that the right to code should be a right protected by the First Amendment, protecting developers from the overreaches of federal agencies.

He has also said that consumers should have a right to possess self-hosted digital wallets beyond the grasp of the government. This has now been explicitly adopted by the Republicans for their 2024 election campaign, showing the practical influence Ramaswamy is having on Republican policy.

It is not just Ramaswamy who has been positively influencing Republican policy. Back in May last year, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, brought into force a law banning any potential CBDC being used in the state. The regulation “prohibits the use of a federally adopted CBDC by excluding it from the definition of money within Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code.”

Efforts like this have been essential in making the Republican leadership aware of the dangers associated with CBDCs and prompting them to pledge action.

But arguably the most important impactful of Ramaswamy’s crypto activism is to persuade the broader Republican Party that supporting crypto innovation is in line with their political philosophy and natural instincts.

他强烈主张，当前联邦政府对加密货币行业的攻击是“我们国家衰落的体现”，因为它代表着对创新和创业精神的攻击，而这两者正是共和党一直声称珍视的价值观。

拉马斯瓦米也同样指出，比特币挖矿是“美国创新的前沿”，与托马斯·杰斐逊等美国英雄的传统相同——拉马斯瓦米认为“杰斐逊本应是一名比特币矿工”。这种言论似乎成功地说服了特朗普总统和共和党领导人，他们确实应该成为支持比特币的政党。

共和党内另一位与维韦克在数字资产问题上持相同观点的重要新人物是特朗普最近挑选的副总统候选人 JD Vance。Vance 参议员直言不讳地支持比特币和数字资产，并拥有科技风险投资背景。他很年轻，他明白争取年轻人选票的重要性。

那么，特朗普总统“再任四年”对美国数字资产行业意味着什么？

让我们以总统的另一句名言作为结束语——这句话表明，由于维韦克·拉马斯瓦米、参议员万斯和其他人的努力，共和党对加密货币的立场在过去几年中发生了多大的变化。

“我将结束乔·拜登对加密货币的战争。我们将确保加密货币的未来和比特币的未来在美国创造。”

这是 Mark Shut 和 Lee Bratcher 的客座文章。表达的观点完全是他们自己的观点，并不一定反映 BTC Inc 或 Bitcoin Magazine 的观点。

来源：比特币杂志

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