來源：YouTube/參議員伊莉莎白沃倫

Scathing crypto critic Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is continuing to sound the alarm on Bitcoin’s role in terrorist financing – though industry figureheads think her claims may once again be exaggerated.

嚴厲的加密貨幣評論家伊麗莎白沃倫（D-MA）繼續對比特幣在恐怖主義融資中的作用發出警報——儘管行業領袖認為她的說法可能再次被誇大了。

In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box on Thursday, the progressive senator said that crypto has been used to finance half of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

這位進步參議員週四在接受 CNBC Squawk Box 採訪時表示，加密貨幣已被用於為北韓一半的核武計畫提供資金。

“There’s a new threat out there – it’s crypto,” she said. “It is being used for terrorist financing, it is being used for drug trafficking.”

「有一種新的威脅——它就是加密貨幣，」她說。 “它被用來資助恐怖主義，被用來販運毒品。”

Warren’s comments followed an annual congressional hearing with top U.S. banking CEOs on Wednesday, during which she asked the executive whether crypto firms should face the same anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing provisions under the Bank Secrecy Act as traditional banks.

在華倫發表此番言論之前，週三與美國銀行業高管舉行了年度國會聽證會，在聽證會上，她詢問這位高管，加密貨幣公司是否應該像傳統銀行一樣，面臨《銀行保密法》規定的反洗錢和反恐怖主義融資條款。

All present executives agreed, including JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who argued that crypto is only useful for criminals and that he’d ban the entire industry if he ran the government.

所有在場高層都同意，包括摩根大通執行長傑米戴蒙 (Jamie Dimon)，他認為加密貨幣只對犯罪分子有用，如果他執掌政府，他將禁止整個產業。

It marked a rare point of common ground for both Dimon and Warren, with the latter historically being a fierce banking critic due to the industry’s risky practices. “What this tells me is that it’s time for Congress to act,” said Warren.

這標誌著戴蒙和沃倫之間罕見的共同點，後者由於該行業的高風險行為而一直是銀行業的激烈批評者。沃倫說：“這告訴我，國會是時候採取行動了。”

So now we live in a world where a pro-banker Elizabeth Warren sits, stays, and rolls over for the CEO of JP Morgan so long as he feeds her self-serving attacks on his industry's primary competitor.

因此，現在我們生活在一個親銀行家伊麗莎白沃倫（Elizabeth Warren）為摩根大通首席執行官坐、留、翻身的世界裡，只要摩根大通的首席執行官對她行業的主要競爭對手進行自私的攻擊。

What's next, a pro-war Bernie?

接下來是什麼，親戰的伯尼？

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 8, 2023

— 愛德華‧斯諾登 (@Snowden) 2023 年 12 月 8 日

Warren’s Anti-Crypto History

華倫的反加密歷史

It’s not the first time Warren has pushed for strict crypto regulation. In October, the senator called on the Biden administration to clarify its efforts to reign in crypto-based terrorist financing to groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

這並不是沃倫第一次推動嚴格的加密貨幣監管。 10 月，這位參議員呼籲拜登政府澄清其為控制哈馬斯和巴勒斯坦伊斯蘭聖戰組織 (PIJ) 等組織的加密恐怖分子融資所做的努力。

In her letter, Warren claimed that such groups raised $130 million in cryptocurrency between August 2021 and June 2023. However, further comments from Elliptic, the source of the figure, clarified that each group had only potentially received around $20,000 in crypto.

Warren 在信中聲稱，這些團體在2021 年8 月至2023 年6 月期間籌集了1.3 億美元的加密貨幣。然而，該數字來源Elliptic 的進一步評論澄清，每個團體僅可能收到約20,000 美元的加密貨幣。

Naturally, crypto leaders are now skeptical of whether Warren’s claims about North Korea and crypto are legitimate.

當然，加密貨幣領導人現在對華倫關於北韓和加密貨幣的說法是否合法表示懷疑。

Let’s state the facts honestly: the currency most used for bribery, extortion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and money laundering is the US dollar. There is no real runner up, least of all Bitcoin where every transaction is transparent and recorded for all time.

讓我們誠實地陳述事實：賄賂、勒索、販毒、人口販運和洗錢最常使用的貨幣是美元。沒有真正的亞軍，尤其是比特幣，因為每筆交易都是透明的並被永久記錄。

— Natalie Brunell (@natbrunell) December 7, 2023

- 娜塔莉布魯內爾 (@natbrunell) 2023 年 12 月 7 日

“Elizabeth Warren loves banks, loves multi-millionaires, hates the people,” said Dogecoin creator Billy Markus in response to her comments. “Younger Elizabeth Warren would have declared the enemy of the people to be current Elizabeth Warren.”

「伊麗莎白·沃倫熱愛銀行，熱愛千萬富翁，討厭人民，」狗狗幣創始人比利·馬庫斯在回應她的評論時說道。 “年輕的伊麗莎白·沃倫會宣稱現任伊麗莎白·沃倫是人民的敵人。”