查理·芒格:加密货币“非常危险”
查理·芒格是真不喜欢加密货币。而且，他并不是最近才开始公开表达对加密货币的厌恶。他说希望加密货币从未被发明，称比特币“愚蠢又邪恶”，只对“绑架者和勒索者”有用。他把加密货币比作“老鼠药”和“性病”。他还表示，“购买或交易加密货币堪称疯狂。”
芒格净资产达23亿美元，作为奥马哈先知沃伦·巴菲特的左膀右臂而知名。因此，芒格继续带头怀疑加密货币并不是什么令人吃惊的事。他还有一些想法要分享。
“美国允许这种垃圾存在实在没法让人支持。叫垃圾都算客气，我想叫它加密狗屎。毫无价值，毫无益处，只有疯狂，造成伤害，允许其存在简直反社会，”芒格在Daily Journal一次活动上接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道（CNBC）直播采访时表示。他接着说，如此多人“相信这种垃圾，而政府允许垃圾存在”令人羞愧。
之前芒格甚至表示，在监管方面美国应该效仿中国——2021年中国宣布禁止加密货币。
“如果加密货币禁令生效，美国应该怎么做？” 最近他在《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal ） 一篇社论中写道。“可能还有件事有点意义：感谢中国领导人做出的杰出榜样。”
被问及最近这篇社论时，芒格告诉CNBC：“我认为反对我观点的都是傻瓜。”
“没理由反对我的立场，”他补充道。
芒格长期对加密货币的厌恶之外，这一年加密货币行业自身也很糟糕。TerraUSD稳定币和FTX交易所等接连崩溃，让行业深陷困境，加密货币总价值一度缩水达2万亿美元。美国加密货币行业最著名的创始人之一，FTX的山姆·班克曼-弗里德受到的欺诈指控也尚未宣判。
风波不断之后，监管机构在打击加密货币方面也更积极。本周纽约金融服务部（New York Department of Financial Services）阻止加密公司Paxos为币安发行稳定币。2月14日的国会听证会上，俄亥俄州参议员谢罗德·布朗表示，加密货币败退的后果仍在持续显现。
“噩梦仍未结束，”他说。“最近加密货币的崩溃表明，我们需要制定全面的框架监管加密货币产品，以保护消费者和金融系统。”（财富中文网）
译者：夏林
查理·芒格是真不喜欢加密货币。而且，他并不是最近才开始公开表达对加密货币的厌恶。他说希望加密货币从未被发明，称比特币“愚蠢又邪恶”，只对“绑架者和勒索者”有用。他把加密货币比作“老鼠药”和“性病”。他还表示，“购买或交易加密货币堪称疯狂。”
芒格净资产达23亿美元，作为奥马哈先知沃伦·巴菲特的左膀右臂而知名。因此，芒格继续带头怀疑加密货币并不是什么令人吃惊的事。他还有一些想法要分享。
“美国允许这种垃圾存在实在没法让人支持。叫垃圾都算客气，我想叫它加密狗屎。毫无价值，毫无益处，只有疯狂，造成伤害，允许其存在简直反社会，”芒格在Daily Journal一次活动上接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道（CNBC）直播采访时表示。他接着说，如此多人“相信这种垃圾，而政府允许垃圾存在”令人羞愧。
之前芒格甚至表示，在监管方面美国应该效仿中国——2021年中国宣布禁止加密货币。
“如果加密货币禁令生效，美国应该怎么做？” 最近他在《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal ） 一篇社论中写道。“可能还有件事有点意义：感谢中国领导人做出的杰出榜样。”
被问及最近这篇社论时，芒格告诉CNBC：“我认为反对我观点的都是傻瓜。”
“没理由反对我的立场，”他补充道。
芒格长期对加密货币的厌恶之外，这一年加密货币行业自身也很糟糕。TerraUSD稳定币和FTX交易所等接连崩溃，让行业深陷困境，加密货币总价值一度缩水达2万亿美元。美国加密货币行业最著名的创始人之一，FTX的山姆·班克曼-弗里德受到的欺诈指控也尚未宣判。
风波不断之后，监管机构在打击加密货币方面也更积极。本周纽约金融服务部（New York Department of Financial Services）阻止加密公司Paxos为币安发行稳定币。2月14日的国会听证会上，俄亥俄州参议员谢罗德·布朗表示，加密货币败退的后果仍在持续显现。
“噩梦仍未结束，”他说。“最近加密货币的崩溃表明，我们需要制定全面的框架监管加密货币产品，以保护消费者和金融系统。”（财富中文网）
译者：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.”
