查理·芒格:加密貨幣“非常危險”
AZURE GILMAN
2023-02-20
查理·芒格，伯克希爾－哈撒韋公司副董事長。圖片來源：HOUSTON COFIELD/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES
查理·芒格是真不喜歡加密貨幣。而且，他并不是最近才開始公開表達對加密貨幣的厭惡。他說希望加密貨幣從未被發明，稱比特幣“愚蠢又邪惡”，只對“綁架者和勒索者”有用。他把加密貨幣比作“老鼠藥”和“性病”。他還表示，“購買或交易加密貨幣堪稱瘋狂。”
芒格凈資產達23億美元，作為奧馬哈先知沃倫·巴菲特的左膀右臂而知名。因此，芒格繼續帶頭懷疑加密貨幣并不是什么令人吃驚的事。他還有一些想法要分享。
“美國允許這種垃圾存在實在沒法讓人支持。叫垃圾都算客氣，我想叫它加密狗屎。毫無價值，毫無益處，只有瘋狂，造成傷害，允許其存在簡直反社會，”芒格在Daily Journal一次活動上接受美國消費者新聞與商業頻道（CNBC）直播采訪時表示。他接著說，如此多人“相信這種垃圾，而政府允許垃圾存在”令人羞愧。
之前芒格甚至表示，在監管方面美國應該效仿中國——2021年中國宣布禁止加密貨幣。
“如果加密貨幣禁令生效，美國應該怎么做？”?最近他在《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal?）?一篇社論中寫道。“可能還有件事有點意義：感謝中國領導人做出的杰出榜樣。”
被問及最近這篇社論時，芒格告訴CNBC：“我認為反對我觀點的都是傻瓜。”
“沒理由反對我的立場，”他補充道。
芒格長期對加密貨幣的厭惡之外，這一年加密貨幣行業自身也很糟糕。TerraUSD穩定幣和FTX交易所等接連崩潰，讓行業深陷困境，加密貨幣總價值一度縮水達2萬億美元。美國加密貨幣行業最著名的創始人之一，FTX的山姆·班克曼-弗里德受到的欺詐指控也尚未宣判。
風波不斷之后，監管機構在打擊加密貨幣方面也更積極。本周紐約金融服務部（New York Department of Financial Services）阻止加密公司Paxos為幣安發行穩定幣。2月14日的國會聽證會上，俄亥俄州參議員謝羅德·布朗表示，加密貨幣敗退的后果仍在持續顯現。
“噩夢仍未結束，”他說。“最近加密貨幣的崩潰表明，我們需要制定全面的框架監管加密貨幣產品，以保護消費者和金融系統。”（財富中文網）
譯者：夏林
查理·芒格是真不喜歡加密貨幣。而且，他并不是最近才開始公開表達對加密貨幣的厭惡。他說希望加密貨幣從未被發明，稱比特幣“愚蠢又邪惡”，只對“綁架者和勒索者”有用。他把加密貨幣比作“老鼠藥”和“性病”。他還表示，“購買或交易加密貨幣堪稱瘋狂。”
芒格凈資產達23億美元，作為奧馬哈先知沃倫·巴菲特的左膀右臂而知名。因此，芒格繼續帶頭懷疑加密貨幣并不是什么令人吃驚的事。他還有一些想法要分享。
“美國允許這種垃圾存在實在沒法讓人支持。叫垃圾都算客氣，我想叫它加密狗屎。毫無價值，毫無益處，只有瘋狂，造成傷害，允許其存在簡直反社會，”芒格在Daily Journal一次活動上接受美國消費者新聞與商業頻道（CNBC）直播采訪時表示。他接著說，如此多人“相信這種垃圾，而政府允許垃圾存在”令人羞愧。
之前芒格甚至表示，在監管方面美國應該效仿中國——2021年中國宣布禁止加密貨幣。
“如果加密貨幣禁令生效，美國應該怎么做？”?最近他在《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal?）?一篇社論中寫道。“可能還有件事有點意義：感謝中國領導人做出的杰出榜樣。”
被問及最近這篇社論時，芒格告訴CNBC：“我認為反對我觀點的都是傻瓜。”
“沒理由反對我的立場，”他補充道。
芒格長期對加密貨幣的厭惡之外，這一年加密貨幣行業自身也很糟糕。TerraUSD穩定幣和FTX交易所等接連崩潰，讓行業深陷困境，加密貨幣總價值一度縮水達2萬億美元。美國加密貨幣行業最著名的創始人之一，FTX的山姆·班克曼-弗里德受到的欺詐指控也尚未宣判。
風波不斷之后，監管機構在打擊加密貨幣方面也更積極。本周紐約金融服務部（New York Department of Financial Services）阻止加密公司Paxos為幣安發行穩定幣。2月14日的國會聽證會上，俄亥俄州參議員謝羅德·布朗表示，加密貨幣敗退的后果仍在持續顯現。
“噩夢仍未結束，”他說。“最近加密貨幣的崩潰表明，我們需要制定全面的框架監管加密貨幣產品，以保護消費者和金融系統。”（財富中文網）
譯者：夏林
Charlie Munger really doesn’t like crypto. In fact, he’s been speaking out publicly about it for some time. He says he wishes it had never been invented. He says that Bitcoin is “stupid and evil,” and useful to “kidnappers and extortionists.” He compares crypto to “rat poison,” and a “venereal disease.” And he says it’s “almost insane to buy this stuff or trade in it.”
So it’s not necessarily a surprise that Munger, who has a net worth of $2.3 billion and is famous for being the right-hand man of Oracle from Omaha Warren Buffett, has decided to maintain his status as a top crypto skeptic. And he has some additional thoughts to share.
“I am not proud of my country for allowing this crap — well, I call it crypto s***. It’s worthless, it’s no good, it’s crazy, it’ll do nothing but harm, it’s antisocial to allow it,” Munger said during a live-streamed interview with CNBC at an event for the Daily Journal. He went on to say that he was ashamed that so many people “believe in this kind of crap and the government allows it to exist.”
In the past, Munger has gone as far as saying that the U.S. should take a page from China when it comes to regulation—that country banned cryptocurrency in 2021.
“What should the U.S. do after a ban of cryptocurrencies is in place?” he wrote in a recent?Wall Street Journal?op-ed. “Well, one more action might make sense: Thank the Chinese communist leader for his splendid example of uncommon sense.”
When asked about that recent op-ed, Munger told CNBC: “I think the people that oppose my position are idiots.”
“I don’t think there is a rational argument against my position,” he added.
Aside from Munger’s long-standing dislike of crypto, the industry itself has had a terrible year. Back-to-back collapses, including the TerraUSD stablecoin, and the FTX exchange, have left it reeling, and at one point the sector was down by $2 trillion in value. One of crypto’s most prominent U.S. founders, FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, is currently awaiting trial on fraud charges.
Regulators are also becoming more aggressive about cracking down on crypto firms in the wake of these debacles. This week, the New York Department of Financial Services stopped the crypto firm Paxos from issuing a coin for Binance. And at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said that the fallout from crypto failures was still ongoing.
“The nightmare isn’t over yet,” he said. “Recent crypto meltdowns have made clear that we need a comprehensive framework to regulate crypto products to protect consumers and our financial system.”
