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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.

严厉的加密货币评论家伊丽莎白·沃伦（D-MA）继续对比特币在恐怖主义融资中的作用发出警报——尽管行业领袖认为她的说法可能再次被夸大了。

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.

这位进步参议员周四在接受 CNBC Squawk Box 采访时表示，加密货币已被用于为朝鲜一半的核武器计划提供资金。

“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.”

“有一种新的威胁——它就是加密货币，”她说。 “它被用来资助恐怖主义，被用来贩运毒品。”

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.

沃伦发表此番言论之前，周三与美国银行业高管举行了年度国会听证会，在听证会上，她询问这位高管，加密货币公司是否应该像传统银行一样，面临《银行保密法》规定的反洗钱和反恐融资条款。

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.

所有在场高管都同意，包括摩根大通首席执行官杰米·戴蒙 (Jamie Dimon)，他认为加密货币只对犯罪分子有用，如果他执掌政府，他将禁止整个行业。

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.

这标志着戴蒙和沃伦之间罕见的共同点，后者由于该行业的高风险行为而一直是银行业的激烈批评者。沃伦说：“这告诉我，国会是时候采取行动了。”

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，现在我们生活在一个亲银行家伊丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）为摩根大通首席执行官坐、留、翻身的世界里，只要摩根大通的首席执行官对她行业的主要竞争对手进行自私的攻击。

What's next, a pro-war Bernie?

接下来是什么，亲战的伯尼？

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 8, 2023

— 爱德华·斯诺登 (@Snowden) 2023 年 12 月 8 日

Warren’s Anti-Crypto History

沃伦的反加密历史

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).

这并不是沃伦第一次推动严格的加密货币监管。 10 月，这位参议员呼吁拜登政府澄清其为控制哈马斯和巴勒斯坦伊斯兰圣战组织 (PIJ) 等组织的加密恐怖分子融资所做的努力。

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 在信中声称，这些团体在 2021 年 8 月至 2023 年 6 月期间筹集了 1.3 亿美元的加密货币。然而，该数字来源 Elliptic 的进一步评论澄清，每个团体仅可能收到约 20,000 美元的加密货币。

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

当然，加密货币领导人现在对沃伦关于朝鲜和加密货币的说法是否合法表示怀疑。

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.

让我们诚实地陈述事实：贿赂、勒索、贩毒、人口贩运和洗钱最常使用的货币是美元。没有真正的亚军，尤其是比特币，因为每笔交易都是透明的并被永久记录。

— Natalie Brunell (@natbrunell) December 7, 2023

- 娜塔莉·布鲁内尔 (@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.”

“伊丽莎白·沃伦热爱银行，热爱千万富翁，讨厌人民，”狗狗币创始人比利·马库斯在回应她的评论时说道。 “年轻的伊丽莎白·沃伦会宣称现任伊丽莎白·沃伦是人民的敌人。”