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哟。
Yo.
欢迎回到又一期的《杰克·马勒斯秀》。
Welcome back to another episode of The Jack Mallers Show.
我是主持人杰克,这是又一期的“周一来信”栏目,每周一晚上6点东部时间,5点中部时间,3点太平洋时间准时开播。
I am your host, Jack, and this is yet another edition of mailbag Monday, every Monday, 6PM eastern, 5PM central, 3PM Pacific.
在最少噪音中传递尽可能多的有效信息。
As much signal as I can in the least amount of noise.
没有广告。
No ads.
不玩虚的。
No nonsense.
不说废话。
No bullshit.
全是干货。
Pure signal.
我们努力寻找真相,为我和我们的下一代打造一个更好的世界。
Trying to find truth and build a better world for us and our kids.
你觉得怎么样?
How about it?
好的。
Okay.
咱们正式开始这一期节目。
Let's kick this episode off.
在开始之前,我给这些问题都标了时间戳。
Before I get started, I time stamped these things.
我现在跟大家说话的时候,比特币价格是六万四千七百美元。
I'm talking to you all at a Bitcoin price of 64,700 US dollars.
比特币的总市值现在正好是一万三千亿美元。
Bitcoin's market cap sits at a clean $1,300,000,000,000.
历史最高点还是十二万六千一百六十美元,离我们在2025年6月10日创下的高点还差48.7%。
All time high remains $126,160 or 48.7% off that all time high we made on 10/06/2025.
我开播后挖出的最后一个比特币区块是第959,890块。
The last Bitcoin block mined since I hit stream is block height 959,890.
好了,各位。
Okay, guys.
能跟大家聊天真好。
It is good to talk to you all.
咱们今天要聊的内容可不少。
Obviously, we have a lot to discuss together.
今天这期节目的主题是:离开21公司、美联储的抛硬币决策,还有人工智能催生的信贷泡沫。
So the title of today's episode is stepping down from 21, the Fed coin flip, and the AI credit bubble.
这是我自己离职后的第一期节目。
So this is the first episode since I stepped down.
事情既然发生了,那就坦然面对吧。
So that I mean, it is what it is.
咱们待会儿好好聊聊这个。
We'll talk about that.
不好意思。
Sorry.
我确认一下是不是已经开播了。
I'm making sure I'm live.
我不是专业的播客主持人。
Not a professional podcaster.
这个我们待会儿聊。
We'll talk about that.
希望你们都看过我辞职的视频了。
Hopefully, you guys have seen my resignation video.
希望你们也看过我写给Strike投资人的那封信。
Hopefully, you have seen my letter to Strike investors.
希望你们还看过我写的那篇文章。
Hopefully, you have seen the essay that I wrote.
就算没看也没关系,我们一会儿会讲到。
But even if you didn't, we'll get into it.
我们会讲到这些。
We'll cover it.
希望我能主要承担问答环节的工作。
And, hopefully, I can do the brunt of the work on q and a.
不知道大家知不知道,我每个周一都会做直播问答,风雨无阻,尽力回答大家的问题。
So for those that don't know, I do live q and a every single Monday, show up no matter what, and try and answer your guys' questions.
所以这周 Dylan 会在聊天室里。
So Dylan is in the chat this week.
他正在记下你们的问题。
He's writing down your questions as we speak.
所以,你们想问我的任何关于我自己、关于 Twenty One 或者任何事的问题,都可以。
So any question that you guys wanna ask me about myself, about Twenty One, about anything, literally.
尽管问吧。
Try me.
我毫无保留。
I'm a wide opened book.
我没什么可隐瞒的。
I have no secrets.
那咱们就聊聊这个。
So we'll talk about that.
节目的后半段,咱们就正常聊。
And then in the back half of the show, we'll just keep it normal.
现在市场上事情可真不少。
I mean, there's lots going on in the markets.
美联储这周要做个决定。
The Fed's got a decision to make this week.
他们会加息吗?
Are they gonna raise rates?
还是会维持利率不变?
Are they gonna keep rates as is?
AI信贷泡沫正越来越影响市场情绪和交易活动。
And then the AI credit bubble is increasingly driving a lot of market sentiment and market activity.
我觉得,这个AI信贷泡沫的最终解决,才会推动下一轮货币宽松。
And I do think that some resolution of this AI credit bubble is what's going to drive the next wave of money printing.
咱们走着瞧吧。
We'll see.
我也不总是对的。
I mean, I'm not always right.
好了,咱们直接进入正题。
So with that, let's get into it.
在开始之前,跟往常一样,我们先回答这几个问题——因为从技术上讲,美国自己也承认我们现在处于一场冲突中。
Before we get started, as always, let's answer these first because technically we are in what is self described by The United States as a conflict.
那到底什么时候才算得上是战争呢?
I would say, at what point is it a war?
都已经持续五个月了,而不是当初说的五周。
It's been going on for five months now instead of the five weeks that we were told.
但问题是,霍尔木兹海峡现在还封闭着吗?
But the questions are, is the Strait Of Hormuz still closed?
这场冲突还在继续吗?
Is this conflict still ongoing?
全球供应链仍然受到干扰吗?
Are global supply chain still disrupted?
全球债务能撑得住这种冲击吗?
And can global debt survive this disruption?
答案还是一样。
The answers remain the same.
所以,关于霍尔木兹海峡的最新情况,我这里有个更详细的图示,能清楚看到目前通过海峡的状况。
So I will admit that the Strait update, here's a more detailed visual of what is going through the Strait.
该表扬的就得表扬。
And, hey, credit where credit's due.
有功劳就得认,该给的肯定要给。
You gotta get you gotta give credit where credit's due.
看起来事情正朝着好的方向发展,但我没法确定这是否就是油价现在这样波动的原因。
It looks like things are moving in the right direction, and it's impossible for me to know if that's why oil is trading the way it is.
油价下跌了。
Oil's come down.
看起来油价下跌跟伊朗和美国周日晚上准备重启和平谈判有关,那会儿正好是市场开盘前。
It seemed to come down and be directly correlated with Iran and The United States wanting to renew the idea of being at peace again late Sunday night as they do before market open.
不过咱们走着瞧吧。
But we'll see.
事情好像又恢复正常了。
It looks like things are getting through again.
但我们问这些问题,正是因为答案没人知道。
But the whole point of asking these questions is because we don't know the answer.
追着新闻和政客的言论跑,既累人又没意义。
Following around headlines and politicians is exhausting and pointless.
这根本不重要。
It doesn't matter.
我更愿意把时间花在更有意思的事情上,想想我们能在哪些地方真正发挥作用。
I'd rather spend our time focusing on more interesting things and figuring out where we can be productive and useful in the world.
那现在来更新一下Strayed Horn Moves的情况。
So here's the strayed horn moves update.
我是说,你听我说。
I mean, listen.
目前还是相对封闭的状态。
It's still relatively closed.
对吧?
Right?
这张图显示的就是这个情况。
That's just what this visual shows.
然后,上次我跟你们聊的时候,我们跟伊朗还在冲突中。
And then are we last time I talked to you guys, we were in conflict with Iran.
又是战争、导弹、暴力。
We were back, war, missiles, violence.
但今天早上,美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示,双方正在进行非常友好的对话。
And as of this morning, the president of The United States, Donald j Trump, said that very friendly talks are ongoing.
所以现在我们又回到互相同意同意同意不再冲突的状态了。
So now we are back agreeing to agree to agree to agree to not be in conflict anymore.
这正是我们很少在节目里深究它的原因,因为他们的立场翻来覆去像煎饼一样。
So this is exactly why we don't spend too much time on the show about it because they flip flop like pancakes.
我的观点一直没变。
My guys, my sentiment remains the same.
看起来这场冲突会比任何人想象的都持续得更久。
It seems like this conflict is going to go on longer than anyone thinks.
不管政客们怎么说,情况向来都是这样。
That's always seemingly been the case no matter what politicians tell you.
而且它还在给本就因通胀和货币超发而挣扎的体系增添通胀压力。
And it seems to be providing inflationary pressure onto a system that was already struggling with inflation and money printing to begin with.
我依然坚持这两个观点。
That I I remain those two remain.
你会看到大宗商品价格的上涨。
You're gonna get commodity inflation.
能源价格也会上涨。
You're gonna get energy inflation.
石油市场会遭到破坏,原因有很多,而且我看不到短期内有什么解决办法。
You're gonna get oil market disruption because of all of the things, and and I don't see any near term resolution.
真的没什么能让我感到安心的。
There's just nothing that gives me confidence.
这不代表事情不可能发生,只是目前没有任何迹象让我觉得这事儿能成。
It doesn't mean it can't happen, but there's just nothing that gives me confidence in in that, like, oh, yeah.
像这样,这事儿肯定很快就要结束了。
Like, this this is definitely gonna end soon.
我从二月起就这么说了。
Been saying that since February.
好吧。
Okay.
第一章。
Chapter one.
咱们开始吧。
Let's get into it.
我从2021年就退出了。
I stepped out from '21.
所以今天讲的内容没什么新信息,我不想让你们觉得无聊。
So a lot of the messaging here will be there's not ton of new information, so I don't wanna bore you guys.
我会尽量以适中的速度讲完。
I'll I'll try and get through it at a medium pace.
不会匆匆带过。
Not gonna blitz through it.
也不会拖得太慢,扯些空洞的大道理。
Not gonna take my time and wax philosophically.
我真正想做的,是给大家留出提问的时间,只要有人想问。
I really do think the opportunity is to allow you guys to ask questions for anyone that does.
我会重申一些我一直以来坚持的观点,那些我真正认同的事,也包括我对自己感到失望的地方——比如我当CEO期间,到底达成了什么,或者更准确地说,没达成什么。
But I will reiterate some of the messaging that I've already been consistent on and and the things that I own and where I feel disappointed in myself and I wanna own some of the outcomes and just what was accomplished or frankly lack thereof while I was the CEO.
接下来是一些背后的思考,以及这一切意味着什么、下一步该怎么做。
And then just some of the reasoning and what comes next, what this all means.
我不是快不行了,谢天谢地。
Doesn't you know, I'm not dying, thankfully.
希望如此。
Knock on wood.
对吧?
Right?
这是一家令人难以置信的公司。
It strikes an unbelievable company.
说实话,这段经历让我特别清楚地看清了自己。
And I I mean, this has been a very clarifying experience for me.
我真正看重的是什么,我是个怎样的人,作为领导者该怎样做,以及我希望如何安排时间,尽可能地发挥作用。
What I care about, who I am as a man, as a leader, and how I wanna spend my time, hopefully, being useful.
那我们开始吧。
So let's do it.
首先,咱们从头说起,当初我们创办21公司时想打造的是什么。
First of all, let's you know, going all the way back, what we set out to build at '21.
我们想打造一家真正的比特币公司,顺便说一句,现在公司里的人还在继续做这件事。
We wanted to build and, you know, they are still building this, by the way, the the folks still at the company.
但我们当初的目标,就是打造一家理想的比特币公司。
But we wanted to build the dream Bitcoin company.
所以我才联合创办了这家公司。
That's why I cofounded the business.
所以我才投身其中。
That's why I got involved.
这正是我一直在做的事。
And that's what I was working on.
到现在,我这个演讲已经说了无数遍了,但说白了,就是资产负债表上要有比特币,也就是持有比特币。
And to me, I've given this presentation ad nauseam at this point, but that means Bitcoin on the balance sheet, so owning Bitcoin.
当然啦,我当然希望拥有全世界最多的比特币,因为我太喜欢比特币了。
And, you know, sure, of course, I I would love to own the most Bitcoin in the world because I love Bitcoin so much.
我认识的所有比特币信徒肯定都会这么做。
I don't know a Bitcoiner that wouldn't.
但这并不意味着我们非得持有十万枚、五十万枚甚至一百万枚比特币。
But it it didn't necessarily mean we needed to own a 100,000 coins or 500,000 coins or a million coins.
这只是为了通过资产负债表来展现我们的信心。
It just meant that our conviction displayed through our balance sheet.
也就是说,我们要用真金白银的行动来证明信念,而不只是嘴上说说。
So our conviction displayed economically, not just verbally.
嘴上说爱比特币是一回事,真金白银地投入又是另一回事。
It's one thing to say, I love Bitcoin, but it's another thing to put your money where your mouth is.
所以我们成立了一家公司,用实际行动证明我们的信念,同时还在旗下构建了围绕比特币的业务生态。
And so there's a company where we put our money where our mouth is, and then a company that also built Bitcoin businesses underneath it.
这正是两者的结合。
It And was the combination of those two.
我的意思是,能不能把 Coinbase 或 Robinhood 最出色的地方,换成比特币版本,再跟最顶级的公司战略结合起来?
So it's like, can you take the best of what Coinbase is or Robinhood is and but the Bitcoin version and combine it with, like, what the best of strategy is?
因为在我看来,这些公司简直是两极分化。Strategy这家公司对比特币的信念非常坚定,焦点也很集中。
Because I I view these companies as polar opposites in the sense that strategy has a ton of Bitcoin conviction, Bitcoin focus.
他们不会被那些乱七八糟的山寨币分散注意力。
They don't get distracted by shitcoins.
Sailor看起来像个比特币信徒,但其实全是金融工程那一套。
Sailors seems to be a Bitcoiner, but it's all financial engineering.
他们并没有靠客户产生现金流的实际产品,也没有去开发能推动比特币在消费者或企业层面普及的工具。
There is no cash generating products because of customers and building tools that push Bitcoin adoption at the consumer level or the business level.
靠的是资本市场和金融工程手段。
There it is capital markets financial engineering.
Coinbase 正好相反。
Now Coinbase is the opposite.
跟他们资产负债表规模比起来,Coinbase 实际持有的比特币并不多。
Coinbase actually does not own a ton of Bitcoin relative to the size of their balance sheet.
所以我觉得,Coinbase 对比特币的信心,跟我或者 Sailor 那种级别根本不在一个量级。
So I would say Coinbase's conviction in Bitcoin has not has not been in the same universe as someone like myself or someone like Sailor.
不是说他们不喜欢比特币,而是他们更喜欢整个加密货币生态。
Not to say that they don't like Bitcoin, but they seem to like crypto as a whole.
他们喜欢预测市场,而且从历史上看,他们明显更偏爱以太坊而不是比特币。
And they like prediction markets, and they, I would say, categorically have liked Ethereum more than Bitcoin throughout their history.
这当然不是在指责他们。
Which, again, I mean, it's not an indictment.
我个人觉得这是个错误。
I personally think that that's a mistake.
不过也没关系。
But whatever.
但这集聊的不是这个。
That's not what this episode's about.
问题是,能不能打造一个中间派?
The question was, can you build someone in between?
因为Coinbase现金流充沛,用户数量也很多。
Because Coinbase has loads of cash flow, loads of customers.
他们开发了很多工具,但在比特币本身上缺乏专注和信念。
They build lots of tools, but there's a lack of focus and conviction in Bitcoin itself.
Strategy 对比特币却有坚定的信念,这非常令人振奋,我也特别欣赏这一点。
Strategy has only conviction in Bitcoin itself, which is very exciting, and I love that.
但他们没有现金流、没有比特币用户、也没有工具,而这正是我们想打造的东西。
But there's no cash flow customers, Bitcoin, and tools, and that's what we try to build.
可以说,很大程度上,我们确实建成了其中一部分。
And I would say in large part, we built some of that.
除了创始团队的自有资金外,我们还筹集了超过十亿美元。
We raised I mean, outside of the founding founders capital, we raised over a billion bucks.
我们买了很多比特币。
We bought a lot of Bitcoin.
有些人误解了,以为我们从来没买过比特币。
You know, there are some misunderstandings of that we never bought Bitcoin.
这不对。
That's not true.
你知道吧,技术上讲,Tether 是用比特币实物出资的。
You know, the technicality is Tether contributed Bitcoin in kind.
没错。
That's true.
但 Tether 用来出资的那些比特币,很多都是用我筹来的资金买的。
But a lot of the Bitcoin that Tether bought to contribute in kind was purchased via capital that I raised.
所以我们确实筹了超过十亿美元。
And so we did raise over $1,000,000,000.
我们买了,大概是14亿个吧,别太较真这个数字。
We did buy I think it's one point don't hold me to this.
现在我不受证交会管了,我才不在乎呢。
And now I'm not bound by the SEC, so I don't give a fuck.
大概就是14亿个左右吧。
But it's 1,400,000,000, something like that.
我们买下的比特币数量非常庞大,最终建成了全球第二大比特币储备,而且很快就让公司上市了。
It was a really big number of Bitcoin that we purchased, and we did build what became the second largest treasury, and we were able to get the company public in a fairly short time frame.
就用这么多资源,我们做到了。
So for for that much, we achieved.
对此我真的很自豪。
Very proud of that.
而且说实话,我们当时根本没什么团队。
And, you know, we did it with a lack of a team.
很长一段时间里,我是唯一的员工。
I mean, for a very long time, I was the only employee.
我们确实干了不少事。
So we did a lot.
但有一件事,我彻底失败了,而且我完全认账:那就是没能实现愿景的后半部分。我认为那才是愿景里最重要的部分,也是能让整个事业真正独一无二的关键。
But the what we absolutely failed at utterly and completely and that I own is following through on the second half of the vision, which I think is the most important part of the vision and the part that would make the business unique in its totality.
我确实没做到。
And I failed at that.
作为CEO,我没能兑现自己一直说想达成的目标。
I I, as the CEO, was unable to execute on what I was vocal about wanting to achieve.
这只是一个事实。
And that's just a fact.
这确实是个事实。
That's just a fact.
至于背后的原因、那些故事,或者将来会不会公之于众,这些都不重要。
And, you know, the reasons for that and the stories behind that and what will ever see the light of day and all of that doesn't matter.
真的不重要。
It doesn't matter.
作为CEO,我想跟你们说一点,所有责任都落在我这儿。
You know, something that I'll I'll tell you guys as a CEO, the buck stops here.
这就是我的职责。
That's my job.
没有别人可怪,也没法推给谁。
You know, there there is no there is nobody else to point and to blame and to no.
责任就在我这儿。
It's the buck stops here.
你知道吧?
You know?
我永远记得高中毕业之后,篮球曾是我生活中非常重要的一部分,直到我意识到自己这辈子大概就只能是五英尺八英寸、一百五十磅了。
I'll never forget after I graduated high school, basketball was a huge part of my life until I realized I was gonna be five eight and a hundred fifty pounds forever.
但高中毕业后,我依然联系了我的高中篮球教练,他对我的人生影响深远,尤其是在领导力和工作态度方面。
But after I graduated high school, I followed up with my high school basketball coach who's had huge influence on my life just when it comes to leadership and work ethic.
他有一句话,我一辈子都忘不了。
And he had a line that I'll never forget.
他说,作为教练、作为带领一帮人的领导者,赢球的时候,功劳归球员;
And he was like, the type of leader that being a coach and a leader of men requires of you in basketball is when the team wins, it's credit to the players.
输球的时候,责任全在教练。
And when the team loses, it's the fault of the coach.
这才叫真正的领导者。
And that's a leader.
这也就是我作为CEO一直以来的领导方式。
And that's how I've really led as a CEO.
当事情顺利的时候,你们大家给我的支持,还有股东、比特币社区和投资者对21公司的支持,真的太多了。
It's like when things go well, you know, the amount of support you guys gave me and that shareholders and the Bitcoin community and investors to 21.
但归根结底,如果没成功,责任全在我。
But at the end of the day, like, if it didn't work, it's my fault.
这就是领导力,我认这个责。
And it's leadership, and I own that.
所以,到底是什么变了?
So anyway, what changed?
我为什么选择退位?
Why did I step down?
其实原因很简单,各位。
Well, it's really simple, guys.
公司的发展方向,和我当初创立时设想的路,已经不一样了。
The company's path and the path that I believed I was building and that I co founded weren't the same anymore.
就这么简单。
Simple as that.
你现在可能会问,这怎么可能呢?
Now you ask yourself, how is that possible?
还有一件事你们得知道,我从来就没有对21公司拥有控制权,但Strike就不一样了。
Well, something else that you guys should know is that I never had governing control over '21, which if you wanna draw a comparison, is not true at Strike.
Strike是我自己的。
Strike is mine.
每一个环节我都说了算。
I control every piece of it.
在Strike,没人能投票把我压下去。
There is no way I can get outvoted at strike.
也没人能命令我该做什么。
There is no one that can tell me what to do at strike.
所有决定都由我来定。
I call the shots.
这艘船,我说了算。
That is my ship to drive.
我就是这艘船的船长。
I am the captain of that ship.
你知道比特币是去中心化的,没人能控制它,对吧?
You know how Bitcoin is decentralized and no one controls it?
但在Strike,情况完全不一样。
Well, that's not true at strike.
一切我说了算。
I control it.
有些人挺喜欢这样的。
And, you know, some people love that.
也有些人特别反感。
Some people hate that.
这都不重要。
It doesn't matter.
事实就是如此。
That's the way it is.
到了21公司的时候,那完全不是这么回事。
Now at 21, that was the furthest thing from the truth.
我根本没有决策权。
I had no governing say.
但这也不一定是坏事。
And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
你知道,不同的公司运作方式都不一样。
You know, different companies operate in different ways.
21公司最终是由董事会说了算。
'21 ultimately was governed by the board.
董事会以前由软银、泰达和我组成。
And the board used to be made up of SoftBank, Tether, and myself.
后来软银退出了业务,董事会主要就由泰达主导了。
And then, obviously, SoftBank departed from the business, and the board was made up primarily of Tether.
但关键是,董事会一直掌握着21公司的未来,只要这个结构不变,它就永远会决定公司的走向。
But the point is that the board ultimately has always, and until that changes, will always determine the future of '21.
所以如果你要问,一个联合创始人兼CEO怎么会跟公司的发展方向对不上呢?
And so if you were to say, well, how is it possible that a co founder and the CEO didn't align with where the company was going?
其实很简单。
It's pretty simple.
就是这样。
That's how.
董事会后来的想法和愿景跟我越来越不一样了,我在这儿写下来了——不过我知道,有时候我的字太小,你们在手机上看不清,所以我还是得念一遍。
The board grew to have different opinions and vision than I did, which I put here, but, you know, sometimes my font is too small for you guys, especially on mobile, so I wanna read it.
这并不意味着大家吵得不可开交、互相扔东西,也不代表谁就是坏人。
That doesn't mean that there was a fight where people were throwing things at each other and screaming at each other, and that doesn't make anybody the villain.
我觉得,根本上只是战略方向上的分歧。
I think there was just a very fundamental difference in strategy.
所以,这并不意味着我就不用面对这些指责。
So that doesn't that doesn't mean that it I don't have to sit with this blame.
我完全承认,是我没能说服董事会支持我的想法,而当时市场上很多人信任我,把我当成这家公司的CEO。
And I a a 100% own the fact that I couldn't get to the board to see and support my vision and that a lot of the market trusted me and trusted in me to be the CEO of this thing.
我没能说服董事会真正落实我们对外传达的愿景。
And I couldn't get the board to follow through on the vision that we had been communicating publicly.
这一点我完全认账。
Like, I own that a 100%.
事情就是这么发生的。
But that's what happened.
事情就是这么发生的。
That's what happened.
当然,我会在能说的范围内聊聊这件事。
And, obviously, I will talk about that to the extent in which I can.
我当然可以讲讲我的想法,以及我原本想做什么。
I obviously can talk about my vision and and what I wanted to do.
但我也得尊重那些还在经营这家公司的人。
But I also need to respect my friends that are still running that business.
现在我不再为公司工作了,我更不该去议论他们该怎么做、要往哪儿走。
And now that I'm not employed and not working on it, I'm the last person that needs to be talking about what they're going to do or what they should do.
那会是我能做出的最渺小、最幼稚的事了。
That would be the most the the most small man childish thing I could do.
我的意思是,他们拥有了一切,足以取得巨大的成功。
That they still I mean, they have everything they need to be incredibly successful.
世界级的背景支持,还有令人难以置信的企业家坐在董事会里。
World class backing, unbelievable entrepreneurs sitting on the board.
保罗。
Paulo.
我的意思是,吉安卡洛不在董事会,但我的意思是,那家公司涉及的人那么多,背后的支持那么强,第二大金库,我的意思是,世界是他们的牡蛎。
I mean, Giancarlo's not on the board, but, I mean, the amount of people involved in that company, the backing that they have, the second biggest treasury, I mean, the world is their oyster.
不幸的是,我很清楚,正确的做法是我不要领导那个偏离了我当初加入时想要建立的方向的事情。
Unfortunately, it just became clear to me that the right thing to do was for me not to lead the thing that diverged from, you know, what I was there to build.
很简单。
Pretty simple.
尽管这很痛苦。
As much as painful it is as it is.
我真心觉得,那是我该做的决定。
I I wholeheartedly think that was the right thing to do.
所以,没错。
So yeah.
总之,我实在没法真心去推动和代表一个我不认同的策略。
Anyway, I I just I could not honestly lead and represent a strategy that I didn't believe in.
于是我退了下来。
So I stepped aside.
我多听,多想。
I think and listen.
再说一遍,所有责任我都承担。
Again, I own all of it.
那些针对我的愤怒、不满和情绪,都不是冲错了方向。
Like, all of the anger and the frustration and the emotion directed at me is not misdirected.
这些我全认,我也都听在心里。
I own all of that, and I hear all of it.
这是真的。
It's real.
我是说,我试过一种方法,但没奏效。
I mean, I tried a thing and it didn't work.
这就是个事实。
That's just a fact.
不过话说回来,我父亲从小教导我,好男人和伟大男人的区别在于,无论多难,都能坚持做正确的事。
But with that being said, on something my dad instilled in me since I was a child was the difference between a good man and a great man is the ability to do what's right no matter how hard it is.
因为什么是正确的,你心里其实很清楚。
Because what is right, you almost always know what is right in your heart.
就像你心里知道,晚饭不应该吃好几品脱的冰淇淋。
Like you know in your heart, you should not be eating pints of ice cream for dinner.
你应该摄取营养。你知道的,节食并不难,你很清楚什么才是健康的饮食。
You should get your nutrients You you should you know, dieting is it's not hard to know what the right diet is.
难的是真正坚持下来。
It's hard to actually stick to it.
其实并不难。
It's not hard.
比如说,做什么对你更好呢?
Like, what's what's better for you?
是躺在沙发上休息,还是去健身房锻炼?
To just lounge on the couch or go to the gym?
并不是有些人不知道答案。
It's not that some people don't know the answer to that.
每个人心里其实都有答案。
Everybody in their heart knows the answer.
但伟大的人和普通人之间的区别,在于无论多难,都能坚持做正确的事。
But the difference between a great person and a person is the ability to commit to what's right no matter the difficulty.
对我来说,这也是其中一个例子。我本来完全可以去收购Strike,然后走个过场说几句场面话。
And and for me, this was another one of those instances is obviously, I I could have probably pursued an acquisition of Strike and gone up and said, whatever.
董事会想要的那条路,和我当初来这里想要建立的事业并不一致,但我也无所谓了。
The the path the board wants and the path that I was here to build doesn't align, but whatever.
你知道,我的工资照发,那我又在乎什么呢?
You know, my paychecks are clearing, and what do I care?
我很乐意偶尔看看彭博社,推高一下股价。
I'm happy to just get on Bloomberg every now and then and and push the stock.
但我知道那样做不对。
But I knew I knew that that wasn't right.
我心里很清楚。
I knew it.
我心里很清楚,就像你知道牛排比冰淇淋更好吃,去健身比瘫在沙发上强一样,你心里是有数的。
And and I knew in my heart in the same way that you know that a steak is better than ice cream, going to the gym's better than limping on the couch, you know in your heart.
但这很难。
But it's hard.
真的很难。
It's hard.
而我这个人,不管结果如何,都会尽力去尝试。
And, you know, I I try as a person, pass or fail.
我不是说我是有史以来最出色的 performer 或成就者,对吧?
You know, I'm not saying I'm the greatest performer or achiever of all time, right?
但我一直努力要求自己,做个最正直、最坦诚的人。
But I try and hold myself accountable to being the most honorable, transparent person.
我心里清楚什么是对的。
And I knew in my heart what was right.
那确实是正确的。
It was right.
对公司来说,那是对的。
It was right for the company.
公司的未来,必须由真正认同这个使命、并与董事会立场一致的人来带领。
The future of the company needs to be led by someone that believes in that mission and that's aligned with the board.
就这么定了。
Period.
这意味着,对股东来说,这也是对的。
That means it's also right for shareholders.
对吧?
Right?
这对投资者来说也是正确的选择。
That is also what's right for investors.
而且更重要的是,这正是我真心愿意倾注全部心血、汗水和精力去做的事——我确信,这是我余生唯一想投身的事业。
And then on top of that, it's also what's right for Bitcoin striking myself to be pouring my blood, my sweat, my tears, and my energy into what I unequivocally can spend the rest of my life doing.
之前很多人给我发邮件、私信,甚至短信,质疑我真正的使命到底是什么。
And I took out, I mean, lot of you had sent emails to me and DMs and text messages of just like really trying to challenge what my true calling was.
我非得在公开市场里打拼吗?
And did I need to be in the public markets?
我非得在资本市场里堆砌巨额储备吗?
And did I need to be building big treasuries in the capital markets?
但说到底,你们是对的。
And and I think you guys were right at the end of the day.
我就是一个专注的橙色支柱,至于Strike能长多大,我真说不准。
I'm a I'm a professional orange pillar, and I I don't know how big Strike can be.
我觉得Strike正在成为比特币圈里最重要的一家公司之一,但我不确定它最终能长多大,能不能实现那些了不起的目标,诸如此类的事情。
I think Strike's becoming one of the import more important Bitcoin companies in the space for Bitcoiners, but I don't know how big a company will be and if we'll ever achieve these massively great things and yada yada and this and that.
但它属于我,也属于我们——这个我们所有人都相信、支持,并投入时间和精力的比特币角落。
But it's mine, and it's ours as this kind of corner of Bitcoin that that we all believe in and support and spend time and energy on.
每次有人过来跟我说,是你让我真正理解了比特币,是你给了我希望,或者你掌控着Stripe、为比特币用户开发工具,这些对我意义重大,甚至改变了我的人生。
And just, you know, having you guys come up to me and say, you're the person that truly, truly got me to understand Bitcoin, or you give me a lot of hope, or the fact that you control Stripe and you build tools for Bitcoiners means a lot to me and has changed my life.
这些才是让我觉得更有力量、更值得投入的事情,远胜过以前的那条路。
Like, those are the things that that I I felt much more I felt much stronger about that life than I did the other one.
所以,再说一遍我之前讲的:这是我的事业。
So anyway, repeating what I said, I own it.
我曾经是CEO。
I was a CEO.
我给你们讲了个比喻,也分享了背景,就是我18岁打篮球时学到的东西。
I gave you guys kind of the the analogy and the backdrop from what I learned when I was 18 playing basketball.
责任在我这里。
The buck stops here.
我没能达成自己想实现的目标。
I didn't achieve what I wanted to achieve.
就这么简单,没什么好说的了。
There's just there's no more story to it.
这责任我扛着。
I own it.
说实话,这挺难的,因为我真想跟大家互动,回答你们的问题。
I do not you know, it's it's tough because I wanna be able to engage with you guys in q and a.
我想澄清事实,但又不希望你们觉得我在博同情,或者期待你们的谅解。
I wanna be able to set the record straight, but I don't want that to be perceived as me asking for sympathy or you guys accepting.
我得说得特别清楚一点,我根本不是这个意思。
That's not just to be very, very clear, that is not what I'm doing.
我不是在等你们说:‘哦,现在我明白你为什么这么做了。’
I am not asking for a, oh, now I understand why you did it.
明白了。
Okay.
别提了。
Never mind.
我明白。
I get it.
不是这么回事。
That's not it.
我认了。
I own it.
是我帮着设定了期待,但咱们没完成我说过要做的事。
I helped create expectations, and we didn't finish what I said we would.
就这样。
Period.
还有另一点。
And here's the other thing.
回头想想,我会有什么不同的做法吗?
Looking back, would I do anything different?
答案是,没错。
And the answer is, yeah.
当然了。
Absolutely.
毫无疑问。
Of course.
这意味着我并不是故意做出糟糕的决定。
That means I I didn't make poor decisions on purpose.
但对我来说,关键在于你是否犯了错,以及你能不能从这些错误里学到东西。
But, you know, that's always for me, in my opinion, a judgment of if you made mistakes and if you can learn from those mistakes.
因为很明显,如果你觉得没什么能做得不一样,事情没按计划走,运气也没站在你这边,那你能做的也就那么多了。
Because, obviously, if there's nothing you would have done differently and whatever, the ball didn't bounce your way, luck didn't didn't align with you that one time, well, there's only so much you can do.
我觉得有些人确实花太多精力在回忆过去,陷在懊悔里,变得消沉悲伤。
And and I do think that people sometimes spend too much energy on the past and dwelling and getting depressed and sorrow.
可前方还有那么多生活等着你,而过去的事,你再怎么想也改变不了了。
And, you know, there's so much life in front of you, and the life behind you, you can't do anything about.
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所以通常来说,我不愿意纠结于那些我控制不了的事情。
So I don't want you know, typically in my life, I don't wanna get caught up on things I can't control.
但这次不一样,我完全能掌控局面。
But in this instance, I absolutely could control it.
我是首席执行官。
I was the CEO.
有些事情我本来可以做得不一样。
There's things I would have done differently.
是我设定了目标,而我们没达成,就这么简单。
I created expectations, and we didn't hit them, period.
直截了当,就是这样。
Point blank, period.
事情就在这里。
That's it.
人们信任我。
People trusted me.
在很多方面,我觉得自己辜负了他们的信任。
And in many respects, I feel like I let them down.
我有这样的感受,也愿意为此承担责任。
And I feel that, and I own that.
话虽如此,公司还得继续运营下去。
Now with that being said, the company still goes on.
有意思的是,公司并没有因此解散,我们之前说有的比特币,其实并没有。
You know, what's interesting is, like, this isn't it's not like the company dissolves of itself and the Bitcoin we said we had, we didn't have.
我的意思是,我们有储备金的证明。
I mean, we have proof of reserves.
全球第二大金库。
Second largest treasury in the world.
所以我也得小心点,毕竟我的篇章已经结束了,我多希望自己在任期内能达成想要达成的目标。
So I also have to be careful in that my chapter of the story is over, and I wish I was able to achieve what I wanted to achieve while I was there.
但是,我的意思是,如果董事会继续打造一家拥有强劲现金流、令人惊叹的产品线,并且已经能够进入公开市场、拥有庞大金库的比特币巨头公司,那这家公司的最佳时光肯定还在后头。
But, I mean, if the board goes on to build a massive Bitcoin company with cash flows and unbelievable product lines and they already have public markets access and a huge treasury, I mean, the best days of the company are surely in front of it.
所以你得明白,是这样的。
So you have to yeah.
我也得把这一点说清楚。
I have to be clear about that as well.
所以,我和二十一公司的这段经历结束了,但二十一公司的故事还没完。
So it's that my my story with twenty one is over, but the twenty one story isn't over.
总之,我相信这两点都是真的。
So anyway, these two things I believe to be true.
我们在公司确实打造了实实在在的东西,但我自己并没有做到。
We built something real at the company, and we didn't I didn't.
我没能实现当初设定的全部愿景。
I didn't complete the full vision that I set out to do.
所以,我认为这两个事实并不互相矛盾。
So I don't think either of those truths cancel out the other.
我们确实建成了全球第二大储备金。
We did build the second largest treasury.
我的意思是,有很多人想把公司上市,也想做我们做过的事,但他们都没成功。
I mean, there are many people that tried to take a company public, tried to do what we did, and they couldn't do it.
而我们做到了,而且过程特别艰难。
And we did it, and it was hard.
如果当初我刚开始做Twenty One的时候,有人告诉我,最后会是这么个结局,还告诉我我到底完成了什么、没完成什么,我肯定说:不可能。
But, I mean, I would say, on net, if you were to tell me when I started twenty one that this is how my time there would end, and you would have told me what I did accomplish and what I didn't, I would have said, no way.
我绝不会接受这样的结果。
I I wouldn't take that.
所以,这就是我必须坦然面对的现实。
So that's the unfortunate reality that I own.
那这对Strike和我来说意味着什么?
Now what does this mean for Strike and myself?
我得说得明明白白,Strike从一开始就是独立的,现在依然独立。
Just to be abundantly clear, Strike has always been independent, remains independent.
我们没打算卖给任何人。
We're not selling anybody.
如果还不清楚的话,Strike是我个人的。
In case that's not clear, Strike is mine.
这家公司归我所有。
I own that business.
我亲自在运营这家公司。
I run that business.
我至今仍在继续运营它。
I continue to run that business.
我发了那封给股东和Strike投资人的信,因为Strike和Twenty One之间没有任何直接关联,除了我本人。
I I tweeted out the letter I sent to shareholders or to Strike investors because, you know, Strike has no direct relationship to Twenty One outside of me.
Strike现在手头上持有的比特币价值超过一亿美元。
Strike I mean, we're sitting on over a $100,000,000 worth of Bitcoin.
这是一家五年历史的初创公司,团队规模大概有一百人左右。
It's a it's a five year old startup, mind you, of of a of a team that, you know, I think is around a 100 people at this point.
目前我们的估值距离比特币的历史高点已经跌了一半。
So and we're 50% off the Bitcoin highs.
我记得有一阵子,我们的资产负债表上曾有两亿五千万美元。
I think at one point, we had a $250,000,000 on our balance sheet.
Strike手握巨额资金,尽管这个熊市让同行们惨遭重创,我们却依然盈利,年年增长。
So, I mean, Strike is sitting on a war chest of capital Despite this bear market that's been ruthless to other peers in the space, Strike remains profitable, growing year over year.
我对团队、文化、产品和专注度感到无比自豪。
I mean, unbelievably proud of the team, of the culture, of the products, of the focus.
我们干得相当出色。
We are kicking ass.
就像我说的,Strike会登上所有杂志的封面吗?
And like I said, like, listen, is Strike gonna be on the cover of every magazine?
会有人拍纪录片讲我们的故事吗?
And is Strike gonna be documentaries made about it?
我不确定。
I don't know.
我觉得我们有可能成为有史以来最酷的公司之一。
I think that we could be one of the coolest companies ever.
但我想说的是,我不需要那些。
But I guess my point is I don't need that.
我真的不需要那些。
I don't need that.
我喜欢为比特币用户打造工具。
I love building tools for Bitcoiners.
稍后我会详细聊,我非常热衷于推广比特币。
And as I'll get into a second, I love orange pilling.
Strike 是一家非常了不起的公司。
Strike is an unbelievable business.
我坚信产品、现金流和利润。
I believe in products, cash flow, profits.
是的。
Yeah.
我们的比特币储备并不是四万三千枚。
Our Bitcoin treasury is not 43,000 Bitcoin.
我对这个没问题。
I'm okay with that.
我对这个没问题。
I'm okay with that.
你懂我的意思吧?
You know what I mean?
比特币储备是我们自己的,靠现金流积累起来的。
The Bitcoin treasury is ours, and we produce it with cash flow.
我们为此感到自豪。
And we're proud of that.
所以,没错,我现在是把全部心血都倾注在Strike上——当然,以前我也一样投入。
So, yeah, that strike is I'm pouring my blood, sweat, and tears, not that I wasn't before, into strike.
想想Strike还这么年轻,未来还有很长的路要走,我们的团队也很年轻,我们是按几十年来规划的。我相信Strike完全有可能成长为一家真正有影响力的比特币金融机构,顺便也推动全球范围内的采用。
I mean, considering how young strike is in the future that it has and the leadership team and how young we are, I mean, I think Stripe can grow over the decades, we think in decades, into, you know, a Bitcoin financial institution that's that's gone a long way into pushing adoption around the world too, for what it's worth.
能说自己在全球范围内为这种新资产类别分发产品的公司,其实没几家,但我们做到了。
I mean, there's not many companies that can say they distribute products globally on this new asset class, and we do.
还有最后一件事,各位。
And then one more thing, guys.
所以我回顾了一下这些内容,再次建议大家花点时间,如果感兴趣的话,可以读一下我发布的那篇文章。
So as I reflected on all of this stuff, and again, I encourage you to take the time and if you're interested, read the essay I put out.
我录制了音频版和视频版,方便那些喜欢一边散步一边听书或播客的朋友。
I I recorded an audio version and a video version for those of you that like walking around and listening to books or podcasts.
我已经把它上传到了这个YouTube频道和播客订阅源。
I uploaded it to this YouTube channel and to the podcast feed.
不过,我会花很多时间去深入反思熊市带来的教训,明白那些磨难并不是礼物,艰难的时刻也不一定是未来让你感激的东西。
But I do a lot of deep reflection on bear markets and tough lessons and, you know, what punishments are not gifts, what hard times are not things that you're ultimately grateful for in your future.
所以,在这些反思中,会有很多更深层次的哲学思考。
And so there's a lot more deeper philosophical waxing in those.
但还有一件事我还没提到,但我确实想谈谈,那就是比特币的普及。
But one thing that I didn't mention yet that I do want to is this idea of Bitcoin adoption.
因为你知道,我花了很多时间思考,我该怎么才能帮上最大的忙。
Because, you know, I spent a lot of time thinking about, you know, how can I help the most?
我在哪里能发挥最大的价值?
Where can I be the most valuable?
确实,很多人给我发私信、写邮件,我都一一读了。
And I did, you know, a lot of you guys DM me and write me emails and stuff, and I read every single one.
我注意到一个挺常见的说法,说比特币在全球的普及率才1%到2%、3%左右。
And one of the things that I found interesting is there's this, you know, cliche that you see people say of like, oh, well, Bitcoin adoption, you know, is only like one to two to 3% of the world globally.
我们还处于非常早期的阶段。
We're so early.
我认真想了想,算了算这笔账。
And I sat with that, and I tried to do the math.
我觉得这说法根本站不住脚。
And I think that's bullshit.
比特币在全球的用户绝对不可能只占1%。
There's no way Bitcoin adoption is 1% of planet Earth.
如果你真去算一算,结论其实再清楚不过了。
And if I mean, if you do the math, I think it's it's nondebatable.
地球上大概有八十亿人。
There's 8,000,000,000 people on the planet.
对吧?
Right?
差不多吧。
Roughly.
我不太确定。
I don't know.
就按八十亿算吧。
Call it 8,000,000,000.
1%就是八千万人。
1% of that's 80,000,000.
你觉得有八千万人真正懂比特币吗?
You think 80,000,000 people understand Bitcoin?
因为对我来说,所谓的采用,可能只是他们间接接触过而已。
Because to me, like, adoption of, like, oh, well, they have some proxy exposure.
你知道吧,他们有个401(k)账户,里面投了一点比特币相关的资产。
You know, they have a four zero one k that has exposure to the no.
这算不上真正的采用。
That's not adoption.
至少我不觉得这是。
At least not to me.
你明白我的意思吧?
You know what I mean?
我就说吧,我也说不准。
Like, I like, I don't know.
如果你爸、你妈、你最好的朋友,或者你老婆说,是的。
If your dad or your mom or your best friend or your wife was like, yeah.
我通过这个、这个、这个,间接接触了比特币,大概我的401(k)里有百分之零点七是通过金融产品间接持有的。
I I have proxied exposure through this, this, this, this, and I guess, like, point 7% of my four zero one k is, like, technically exposed through a securities wrapper.
你会觉得,好吧,这算数吗?
Would you say, like, okay.
不错。
Cool.
你明白了。
You get it.
你才是真懂了。
You are adopted.
操。
Fuck.
不。
No.
我不会这么干。
I wouldn't.
这根本不是个问题。
Like, this ain't a question.
有些人居然真这么想,这简直荒谬。
It's not even like, the fact that some people believe that to me is asinine.
这个我真不知道。
I I don't know.
这得看你想让比特币扮演什么角色,反正定义比特币不是我的事。
It depends on what you want Bitcoin to be, and it's Bitcoin's not for me to define.
它不属于我。
It's not mine.
但这跟普及推广可不是一回事。
But that's not adoption.
所以我坐在那儿想了想,心想,行吧。
And so I sat and I thought, I said, okay.
嗯,首先,这说明我们真的还处在非常早期的阶段。
Well, you know, first of all, it goes to show how early we really are.
因为如果我们连1%的比特币采用率都没达到,至少按照我对比特币的理解,你至少对它有个大概的了解。
Because if we're not at 1% Bitcoin adoption, at least how I think of Bitcoin, we're like, you at least remotely understand it.
不管你是想拥有ETF、证券还是现货,随便哪种都行。
And whether you wanna know own an ETF or a security or spot, whatever.
但至少你理解它,明白它是怎么运作的,也知道它为什么重要。
But at least you like understand it, you get how it works, you get why it's important.
有八千万人已经达到这个水平了。
Like, 80,000,000 people are at that level.
朋友们,我们离这个数字还差得远呢。
Guys, we aren't even close to that number.
事实上,我觉得连八百万人对比特币都只有个模糊的概念。
In fact, I don't think 8,000,000 people have, a vague understanding of Bitcoin.
我们可能连八十万人都不到。
We might not even be at 800,000.
我甚至不确定我们有没有达到比特币采用率的万分之一。
I don't even know if we've achieved a basis point of Bitcoin adoption.
至少像现在听我说话的这些人和我所理解的这种程度,都远远没达到。
At least a level of adoption that the folks listening to me right now and I have, like not even close.
于是我对自己说,你知道吗?
And so I thought to myself, I said, you know what?
全世界最终总会有一部分人理解比特币,问题是,现在该从哪儿开始?
Of all the like, how is the world because inevitably, the world will get to 1%.
八千万人、八百万人、八亿人,总有一天,八十亿人会明白比特币是什么。
80,000,000 people, 8,000,000 people, and then 800,000,000 people, and then 8,000,000,000 people will understand Bitcoin at some point.
这需要时间,而且过程肯定不容易。
And it's gonna take time, and it's gonna be hard.
但我一直在想,到底谁来干这件事呢?
But I thought to myself, and I said, you know, who's going to do that work?
说实话,我自己也不知道。
It's I I don't know.
这确实是个值得思考的问题。
To me, it's a good question.
是Coinbase来推动吗?
Like, is Coinbase gonna do it?
是美国政府来推动吗?
Is the US government gonna do it?
摩根大通会做吗?
Is Chase Bank gonna do it?
我也不确定。
And I don't know.
我当时在想,嗯,好吧。
I you know, because I was thinking to myself, like, okay.
显然,Strike 还有太多事情要做。
Obviously, you know, Strike, we have so much to do.
但我心里其实觉得,没错,就是这样。
But I was like, yeah, man.
我依然对这件事充满热情和信念。
You know, I still have so much ambition and and conviction in in this thing.
虽然我觉得自己并不适合当 2021 年的 CEO,但我依然非常想为 Orange Pillen 做点贡献。
And just because, you know, I didn't believe I was the right CEO for '21, I still like really, really want to contribute to Orange Pillen.
所以我接下来要专注的就是这件事。
So the other thing I'm gonna be doing is focusing on that.
所以像这个YouTube频道,我打算邀请更多嘉宾。
So this YouTube channel, for example, we're I'm gonna start bringing on a lot more guests.
我会更多地参加播客节目。
I'm hitting the podcast waves more.
既然我不再是上市公司的CEO,我现在想说什么就说什么。
I got I'm doing what now that I'm not a public company CEO, I could say what I want.
我想什么时候说就什么时候说。
I could talk when I want.
我是说,这太棒了。
I mean, it's amazing.
所以从这个角度来说。
And so in that respect.
所以我明天要去录一期播客,周三还有一期。
So I go on a podcast tomorrow, another one on Wednesday.
我会在这里制作更多内容。
I'm gonna produce more content on here.
会多做一些教育类的内容。
A lot more educational content.
比如,钱到底是什么?
Like, what is money?
比特币是怎么运作的?
How does Bitcoin work?
说实话,我也不知道谁会来做这些内容。
I mean, I don't know who's going to produce this stuff.
我好好想了想,干脆我自己来吧。
And I I kinda sat with myself and I thought, well, why not me?
我也说不准。
And I don't know.
也许大家会喜欢。
Maybe people will love it.
也许不会。
Maybe people won't.
但我觉得这是值得去做的事。
But I think it's I think it's work worth doing.
再说,这工作可不算最吸引人的那种。
And again, this isn't like the sexiest work.
你知道的,我觉得靠做这个,我一周可攒不下两万枚比特币。
Like, you know, I I don't think I'm gonna be stacking 20,000 Bitcoin a week doing this work.
不过我不在乎。
But I don't care.
我不在乎。
I don't care.
我是真的不在乎。
I really don't.
你知道的,比特币圈子里很多都是关于放下自我执念的事。
I I you know, so much of Bitcoin is that ego death thing.
那些东西对我来说根本无所谓。
Don't that that stuff don't matter to me.
所以你们可以期待我继续这样下去。
So you guys can expect that from me.
我会在节目后面再听听大家的意见。
I'll I'll get your feedback a bit later into the show.
不过,这部分就说到这里了。
But anyhoo, that's the section.
还没听说这个消息的人,现在知道了。
So for those that hadn't heard the news, now you know.
很遗憾,我们当初想做的事,和公司现在的方向已经不一样了。
Unfortunate, obviously, what we set out to start and where the company's going is no longer the same.
所以我得退出了。
So I need to step down.
我已经这么做了。
And I did.
这是个艰难的决定,但没错,这是该做的。
It's the right thing, hard thing, but the right thing.
这并不改变一个事实:我为公司所做的一切,最终没能达到我当初设定的愿景和期望。
That doesn't take away from the fact that the outcome of my endeavors with the company didn't match the vision and the expectations I set.
这一点我完全承担责任,对此我深表歉意。
And I own that a 100%, and I apologize for that.
当然,这不是我心目中关于‘21年’该有的故事结局,但这是正确的决定。
Certainly not the story and the ending to this movie that I wanted in regards to '21, but it's the right thing to do.
对公司、股东、对我自己、对Strike、对比特币,这都是最好的选择。
It's best for the company, its shareholders, for me, for Strike, for Bitcoin.
那么,这对我们未来意味着什么?
And so then what does it mean for the future?
我的想法很简单:咱们就专心为比特币用户开发工具,打造现金流。
Well, I mean, let's fucking build tools for Bitcoiners, build cash flow.
我想打造一家我心目中理想的比特币公司——它该有的样子、该有的行为、该专注的方向,这就是Strike之于我的意义。
I wanna build the company that you know, I have a very particular vision for what a Bitcoin company should look like, how it should behave, what it should be working on, And that strike for me.
现在我也有了更多时间和精力,去真正推动比特币普及,打造一个属于我的声音、平台和内容,做我认为真正重要的事。
And I also now have a lot more time and focus to orange pill and, like, really build a voice and a platform and content for Bitcoin adoption in the way that I think it matters.
所以你看,比特币就是这样一种开放的东西。
So, you know, Bitcoin is this Bitcoin is this open open thing.
它就像一项公共设施。
It's like a public utility.
就像街角那个公园一样。
It's like a it's like a park down the street.
你懂的。
You know?
如果我去公园坐着看书,这时候有个爸爸和儿子过来玩接球,谁对谁错?
If I were to walk to the park to sit and read a book and, you know, a dad and his son come play catch, who's right?
公园是该给玩接球的,还是该给看书的?
Is the park for catch or is the park for reading?
其实谁都没错。
Well, no one's right.
它就是一项公共设施。
It's it's a public utility.
你想怎么用就怎么用。
It's for whatever the fuck you want.
有些人会带狗去公园散步。
Some people are gonna use the park to walk their dogs.
有些人会去公园野餐。
Some people are gonna use the park for a picnic.
有些人会坐在那儿看书。
Some are gonna read a book.
有些人会玩接球游戏。
Some are gonna play catch.
每个人都是错的,但每个人也都是对的。
Everyone's wrong, and everyone's right.
所以,别人对加密货币的构想并不算错。
So it doesn't invalidate everyone else's vision for a Bitcoin company.
别人对比特币的理解,也不该被否定。
It doesn't invalidate everyone else's perception of what Bitcoin is.
但Strike是什么,以及我将成为什么,这完全由我决定,我会按自己的方式来做。
But what Strike is and what I am will be mine, and I'm gonna do it my way.
我对这一点感到非常兴奋。
And I'm very excited about that.
尽管这段经历很痛苦,就像我在文章里写的,哪一种教训不是礼物呢?
And as painful as some of this has been, like I read in my essay, what punishments are not gifts?
我很感激自己能以这么低的代价学到这些教训,因为我正在深刻理解什么是领导者,什么是真正优秀的人,什么是朋友、同事,什么是比特币信徒。
I'm very grateful for acquiring lessons as cheap as I am because I'm learning a lot about what it means to be a leader, what it means to be great man, a friend, a colleague, a Bitcoiner.
听好了,Twenty One依然是个拥有大量比特币、并已为成功做好准备的公司。
And listen, Twenty One is still a business that has a ton of Bitcoin and is set up to be successful.
Strike是一家了不起的公司,不管遇到什么阻碍,它似乎总是越挫越强,越来越赚钱,规模越来越大。
Strike is an unbelievable company that despite anything thrown in its way, it seems to just get stronger, get more profitable, grow bigger.
机会似乎无处不在。
Opportunities seem to be everywhere.
我的意思是,尽管经历了这么多挫折和痛苦,我们依然站在这里。
I mean, for all of the humbling and all of the pain, we're still here.
所以我很感激自己能在这么艰难的情况下依然坚持学习,并且继续前行。
And so I'm very grateful for an ability to learn as hard as it's been and march on.
继续前行。
March on.
我觉得成功有百分之九十九靠的就是坚持到场。
I think 99% of success is just showing up.
确实如此。
I do.
你懂的?
You know?
在细节层面,你得做决定,比如,呃,你知道的,我们是做这个产品还是那个产品?
At the margins, you'll have to make decisions of like, oh, you know, do we build this product or that product?
还是说定价定成这样还是那样?
Or do you price it this way or that way?
我并不是想否定这些工作的价值。
And I'm not trying to invalidate that work.
但我跟你们说,大部分时候,市场会试图让你疲惫不堪,或者把你吓跑。
But I'm telling you guys, most of the work like I say, markets try and wear you out or scare you out.
对吧?
Right?
就是别放弃。
It's just don't quit.
只要坚持到场就行。
Just show up.
只管埋头干活。
Just do the work.
把教训当作成长的养分,坦然接受。
Take the lessons to the chin.
保持谦逊。
Humble yourself.
勇于承担责任。
Own it.
做个有担当的男人。
Be a man.
保持透明,别藏着掖着。
Be transparent.
要诚实。
Be honest.
并且要持之以恒地投入。
And show up.
所以我接下来会这么做。
So that's what I'll be doing.
现在对那些对这一切完全不在乎的听众,我先道个歉。
Now for the listeners to the show that don't give a shit about any of that, I apologize.
咱们来聊聊市场动态吧。
Let's do market updates.
这周行情很重要,因为美联储有机会调整利率。
So we have a big week because the Fed has an opportunity to change interest rates.
我想在这里说点别的。
And I I just wanna say something here.
我之前说过,沃什根本不可能加息。
You know, I've said there's no way Warsh hikes rates.
那简直不可能。
That'd be impossible.
他要是真这么干,那简直就是糊涂蛋。
He'd have to be an idiot.
但回头想想,我得小心点,别把话说得太绝对,万一他真加息了,大家肯定都会说:天啊。
And feedback from my own self, I gotta be a little careful with such declarative statements like that because inevitably when he does raise rates, then everyone's gonna be like, wow.
我可是经常听你的节目。
I listen to your show.
你真是个糊涂蛋。
You're an you're an idiot.
所以我赶紧把话说得委婉点。
So let me just rephrase things quickly.
我真的觉得他不该这么做。
I really don't think he should.
我觉得这主意太糟糕了。
I think it's a very bad idea.
从数学上讲,这根本行不通,但这并不意味着他不会做。
Mathematically, it cannot work, but that doesn't mean that he won't.
我得说实话,毕竟我们面对的是政治世界。
I have to be honest about that because, I mean, we're dealing in a world of politics.
这整个就是庞氏骗局。
And, I mean, this is all Ponzinomics.
这完全是晕头转向的。
It's a woozy.
这完全是胡扯。
It's a wazzy.
这简直就是魔法粉尘。
It's fairy dust.
对吧?
Right?
《华尔街之狼》。
Wolf of Wall Street.
所以我也说不准,毕竟涉及政治、战情室的动态,还有伊朗和中国AI公司那边的情况。
And so I don't know, you know, the the politics and being in the war room and what's going on with Iran and AI companies in China.
所以我没法做出这么绝对的判断。
And so I can't make such declarative statements.
这一点我得说清楚。
So I just gotta be clear on that.
现在我再跟你们详细讲讲,为什么从长远来看这根本行不通,但这并不意味着他不会做。
Now I I will walk you guys through once again why it just isn't an option for the long term, but it doesn't mean that he won't.
所以市场目前这一周的预期,其实是五五开。
And so the market is effectively pricing this week as a toss-up.
今天特朗普对媒体可是说得挺直白的。
So Trump today was very vocal with the media.
我这儿有两张截图。
So I got two screenshots here.
特朗普这周问了美联储。
Trump asked the Fed this week.
成本正在迅速下降。
Costs are going down rapidly.
接着特朗普又说,利率应该下调。
And then Trump again, rates should be lowered.
所以特朗普坚持自己的立场。
So Trump is sticking to his guns.
他还觉得我这儿漏掉了一条。
He thinks he also had one I didn't put in here.
他认为美国的利率应该是全球最低的。
He thinks The US should have the lowest interest rates in the world.
所以特朗普希望大幅降息。
So Trump wants aggressive rate cutting.
他一直都是这么想的。
He always has.
看起来他确实坚持这个立场,这也挺正常的,但显然这会带来通胀压力。
Seemingly, he sticks by that, which is also fine, but obviously is inflationary.
然后费吉这条推文,正好直观地印证了我刚才说的情况,就是现在局势有点说不准。
And then this tweet from Feiju is really the visualization of what I was just describing is that it's kind of a toss-up.
市场的意思是,沃什真的可能会加息。
The market is saying, Warsh really might raise rates.
说真的,他可能真会这么做。
Like, he really might do it.
看他那番话,再加上市场已经把这种可能性算进去了,这绝非零概率。所以我才得赶紧上来提一嘴,我觉得这主意糟透了。
The way that he's talking and the way the market is pricing it in, it's a nonzero chance, which is why I had to get on here and say, I think it'd be a bad idea.
他可能会把AI信贷泡沫给戳破。
He might pop the AI credit bubble.
他可能会给股市和债市造成大量不可逆的损害,到时候咱们就得面对那种大规模印钞式救市的事件了。
He might cause a lot of irreversible harm to equities and to the bond market, and that's when we're gonna get, like, a big print bailout type of event.
但他可能会这么做,因为我是说,政客嘛,我也不清楚。
But he might do it because I don't again, politicians, I don't know.
我是说,这大概是人类历史上最非理性、最荒谬的一章了。
I mean, it's the most irrational, ridiculous chapter in human history, arguably.
我没法预测这种事。
I I can't predict these things.
所以费吉这条推文的意思是,欢迎来到新时代。
And so this Feiju tweet reads, welcome to the new age.
利率在会议前充满不确定性,这已经成了新常态。
Rates being a toss-up going into meetings is the new normal.
要做好市场波动的心理准备。
Expect volatility.
所以我的市场观点很简单,就是预期会有波动。
So that's really my market update is to expect volatility.
再看看《华尔街日报》这篇报道,讲赤字高企如何威胁债券市场。
So this from the Wall Street Journal, how sky high deficits threaten the bond market.
而且,我是说,这个话题我们已经讨论过无数次了。
And, I mean, we've gone over this a million times.
Luke Gromen 讲过无数次,每个宏观分析师也都讲过无数次。
Luke Gromen has gone over this a million every macro analyst has gone over this a million times.
左边那张幻灯片或者图表展示的是美国财政部如何通过发行短期票据来融资,而不是长期债券。
The the slide on the left or the visual on the left is showing how the US treasury has financed itself through bills as opposed to long duration.
所以,你知道的,当人们提到短期久期、长期久期时,意思就是你发行这些债务票据,那么这个票据的久期到底是多长呢?
So, you know, when people say short duration, long duration, it's you're issuing these debt notes, and, you know, what's the duration of the note?
比如十年期的美国国债,或者三十年期的美国国债。
Like a ten year US treasury or a thirty year US treasury.
这属于长期投资。
That's long term.
这叫久期很长,对吧?跟三个月的国库券比起来。
That's long duration, right, versus a three month bill.
三个月对比十年期。
Three month versus ten years.
一个是短期,一个是长期。
One is short, one is long.
现在美国财政部——也就是美国政府——一直靠短期融资,发短期国债。
Now the US treasury, so the US government, has been financing itself on the short end, issuing bills short.
他们这么做是因为长期债券需求不足,没法支撑政府因赤字需要发行的债务规模。
And they're doing that because the long end doesn't have enough demand to sustain the amount of debt that the government needs to issue because of the deficits.
政府每年想花两万亿美元,可实际上并没有这笔钱。
So the government wants to spend $2,000,000,000,000 a year that it doesn't have.
明白吧?
Okay?
它想制造两万亿美元的财政赤字。
It wants to run a $2,000,000,000,000 deficit.
如果可能的话,他们当然更想发十年期或三十年期的债券,但没人愿意借这么长时间给政府。
They would issue ten year, thirty years if they could, but there's not enough demand for people willing to lend to the government over that duration.
所以债券市场出现了供需失衡,这我们一直都在聊,记得债券的那些基本原理吗?
And so if there's a supply demand mismatch in the bond market, which we've talked about all the time, you know, remember bond math.
债券价格下跌时,收益率就会上升。
Yields go up when the bond value goes down.
对吧?
When right?
如果他们在长期限市场大量抛售,而需求又跟不上,那债券市场就会崩盘。
So if they're pushing a lot of supply to the long end and there's not enough demand to meet it, then they're going to break the bond market.
收益率会飙升到天上去。
Yields are gonna go to infinity.
所以,尽管美国国债市场非常脆弱,他们还是通过发行短期票据来为政府融资,变相补贴了财政支出。
And so the way that they've been able to to subsidize the US government despite having really fragile treasury US treasuries market is by substituting the financing via bills.
明白。
Okay.
这样做的后果是什么?
What are the consequences of that?
当你必须不断滚动续作这些短期债务时——要知道,这可是上万亿美元的规模。
Well, when you have to roll over all of the all of this short duration, I mean, this is trillions of dollars.
你看右边,私人持有的、一年内到期的美国国债已经超过了8万亿美元。
So on the right, you can see privately held marketable US treasury debt maturing within one year is now over $8,000,000,000,000.
所以关键在于,加息就像往火堆里泼汽油,因为谁最受融资成本上升的影响?
And so the point is, it like, raising interest rates is like pouring gasoline onto a fire, because who is the person most impacted by a higher cost of financing?
就是美国政府自己。
Well, the US government itself.
当你听到有人说,五十年前美联储曾大力加息,成功压住了通胀,这确实没错。
And so it's like it's like, you know, obviously, we when you hear stories of like, oh, well, you know, the Fed fifty years ago was really aggressive with rates and got inflation under control.
是的。
Yeah.
但五十年前,美国的债务占GDP比例还没到120%。
But fifty years ago, debt to GDP wasn't a 120 some odd percent.
那时候债务总额也没到40万亿美元。
They didn't have $40,000,000,000,000 of debt.
而且当时发债主要也不是靠短期国库券。
They weren't doing most of the issuance via bills.
别跟我提五十年前的事了。
Like, it doesn't don't tell me what happened fifty years ago.
现在完全是另一个世界了。
It's a different world.
以前是金本位的钞票,现在呢,全靠印钞,每年赤字两万亿美元,还去打那些根本负担不起的仗。
We had taken gold backed currency notes, and we've now just printed them out of thin air running $2,000,000,000,000 deficits, going to wars we can't afford.
所以说,加息这招根本就是笑话。
I mean, don't that's why raising rates is a joke.
更别说,人工智能行业最近压力还在持续加大。
Now on top of that, the AI industry continues to see stress.
我每周都得提一回,因为他现在没法再装作看不见了。
And I have to just say it every single week because he can't ignore it at this point.
我们之所以得关注AI市场,是因为它已经成了经济中举足轻重的一部分。
The reason we have to care about the AI market is it is such a it's become such a material part of the economy.
要是把AI和科技从经济数据里剔除掉,咱们现在简直就是经济萧条。
If you take AI and tech out of economic data, we are in, like, a depression.
事实上,由于这种K型经济的状况,很多美国人——说不定是大多数——早就陷入某种形式的衰退或萧条了。
In fact, because of this whole k shaped economy thing, I mean, a lot of America, maybe the majority, is in some form of recession depression and has been for quite some time.
所以人工智能必须成功。
So AI needs to succeed.
至于政府的看法,我得把它们和我个人的想法分开来看。
And the well, I don't I, you know, I have to divorce the US government's opinion from my personal opinion.
那可不是我自己的观点。
That's not my personal opinion.
我觉得它会成功的。
I think it will succeed.
我觉得这事儿特别有意思。
I think it's very cool.
但我真不确定这些美国的AI公司能不能真搞成。
But I if I'm not convinced that the these US AI companies are going to be successful.
我都不知道它们怎么打得过中国,这点我们待会儿再说。
I have no idea how they're gonna outcompete China, which we'll get to in a second.
但关键是,美国政府,尤其是特朗普政府,对此毫不含糊。
But the point is the US government, the Trump administration, there's been no if, ands, or buts about it.
人工智能具有战略意义。
AI is strategically important.
这关乎国家安全。
It is a national security event.
哪怕其他什么都不管,我们也必须在人工智能竞赛中胜出。
If anything else, we must win the AI race.
我们必须把制造业带回美国,围绕人工智能和能源生产实现再工业化,而且必须不惜一切代价赢得这场胜利。
We must reshor America as part of this reindustrialization around AI, around energy production, and and we must win with with like, it is at all cost win.
所以我们必须关注人工智能,一旦它出问题,市场就会开始承压。
So we have to pay attention to AI because if AI starts to face issues, you're gonna start to see stress in the market.
市场一承压,就可能走到需要救助的地步。
Stress in the market, you're getting to bailout territory.
到时候你就知道,情况真的不妙了。
You're getting to, like, okay.
你知道的,我们是眼睁睁看着整个西方文明帝国垮掉,还是印钞票来维持它?
Well, you know, do we let this whole, you know, US Western civilization empire collapse, or do we print the money and sustain it?
那我们现在面临的情况是什么样的呢?
So what are we looking at here?
这是看那些支持AI或为AI提供资金的人的信用风险。
This is credit credit risk across AI backers or AI financiers.
所以这点你们得记在心里,我就算每周都得说一遍也没关系:AI的钱可不是靠盈利现金流来支撑的。
So something that you guys need to keep in mind, and I'll say it I'll say it every single week if I have to, AI is not financed out of profitable cash flow.
这些人借了天文数字的钱,而最大的借款方都是那些不产生利润的公司。
These guys are borrowing an insane amount of money, and the biggest borrowers are companies that don't produce profits.
所以目前看来,根本没有路径去偿还这些债务。
So there is no path currently to pay that back.
当然,你借钱是因为你觉得未来的价值会高于现在。
Now, obviously, you borrow money because you think your future will be worth more than your present.
如果情况确实如此,而且他们能产生源源不断的巨额利润,那对他们来说当然是好事。
And so if that's true and they're able to produce loads and loads and loads of profits, good for them.
但这就是为什么中国竞争对他们来说像是一把抵在喉咙上的刀,他们恨不得把那种东西封杀。
But that's why Chinese competition seems to be like a knife to the throat of these guys where they're like, ban that shit.
我真不敢相信我会说出这话,OpenAI的高管竟然说开源不好。
Or I can't believe I'm saying AI open AI executives say open source is bad.
我的意思是,除非是个道德指南针完全颠倒的怪人,否则没人会说开源不好。
I mean, you'd have to be some kind of fucked up human with the moral compass backwards to say that open source is bad.
但这些人就是这么说的。
But this is what these guys are saying.
他们为什么这么忌惮中国?
Why are they so threatened by China?
要是中国进入市场,哪怕只是稍微有点竞争力,他们原本指望未来能赚到的那些利润就会受到严重威胁。
Well, if China comes in and is even marginally competitive to their business, well, all of the profits that they were banking on somehow achieving in the future is severely threatened.
就算别人只抢走20%或30%的市场份额,也足以让他们之前做出的所有融资决策变得毫无意义,彻底打水漂。
Even if someone comes in and takes 20%, 30% market share in sum, that's enough to have made all of the financing decisions that they've already chosen moot and totally worthless.
对吧?
Right?
那他们是从哪儿借的钱?
So who are they borrowing money from?
目前还没到美国政府跟银行联手搞大规模、实质上有政府背书的融资那一步,那种做法纯粹就是印钞,会引发严重的通胀。
Well, we haven't gotten to a point where the US government in combine in combination with the banks have been doing, like, large swaths of effectively government backed financing, which is that highly inflationary, pure money printing.
在我看来,比特币现在的表现就是在提醒我们,目前的流动性根本撑不住这么大的盘子。
That's when you know, my interpretation of of Bitcoin is it's calling out there's not enough liquidity to support all of this right now.
现在到处都是错误的投资,而且很多人其实都在裸泳。
There is a ton of malinvestment going on, and there's a ton of people swimming naked.
所以比特币从去年底就开始发出信号了,它一直在这儿等着局势明朗。
And so Bitcoin has pointed this out since the end of last year, and it's been sitting here waiting for a resolution.
我管这叫法币流动性的烟雾报警器。
I call it this fiat liquidity smoke alarm.
我觉得,一旦美国政府实际上给这些烂摊子兜底,比特币绝对会让大家大吃一惊。
I think Bitcoin is going to rip people's face off if and when the US government de facto backs all of this garbage and says, whatever.
OpenAI 估计是搞砸了,谁也不知道他们能不能成为一家好公司。
OpenAI probably fucked up, and who knows if they're gonna be a good company.
但到了这个节骨眼上,他们可绝不能失败,所以随便吧。
But we they can't fail at this point, so whatever.
管他呢。
Screw it.
到时候比特币、黄金,还有所有这些资产都会大涨。
Then Bitcoin, gold, all of these things are going to rip.
而且时间拖得越久,这些问题被抛出来的次数越多,陷入困境的人越多,中国又在人工智能领域给美国带来真正的技术威胁,比特币和其他资产就越会反复震荡、下跌。
And the more time goes on and the more these questions are presented and the more trouble in peep people get in trouble and the more China presents, like, legitimate technology threats in the AI sector to The United States, then the more, like, Bitcoin and other assets are going to chop around and fall.
那现在是谁在借钱给他们?
So who's lending the money today?
甲骨文、微软、亚马逊、Meta。
Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta.
这就是我们眼前看到的情况。
That's what we're looking at right here.
所以这里涉及甲骨文、微软、软银、AMD、Meta、亚马逊和CoreWeave。
So this is Oracle, Microsoft, SoftBank, AMD, Meta, Amazon, CoreWeave.
明白吗?
Okay?
看看这些公司的信用风险。去年年中那会儿,除了甲骨文,其他家几乎没什么风险。现在情况变了,大家意识到这个趋势是实实在在的。
Look at the credit risk across these businesses, which was, you know, virtually nothing in the middle of last year outside of Oracle, and now they're all like, this trend is real.
我不是说这些公司没有信用价值,而是我想表达的是,市场开始把它们看作一个巨大的、不再那么确定的关联押注了。
Now it's not saying that these businesses aren't credit worthy, but I think the point is that the market is starting to assess this as one giant correlated bet that is not certain any longer.
懂了吧?
Okay?
意思是说,并不是说有些能成、有些不成,风险还分散在各处,不是那样的,完全不是。
Meaning, it's not as if like, oh, like some of this might work out, some not, and, you know, oh, the risk is isolated over it's like, no, no, no.
如果这事儿黄了,风险会摊到所有放贷方身上。
It's like, if this doesn't work out, like, the risk is spread across all of these lenders.
谁都没法独善其身。
Nobody is safe.
风险高度集中,这再次暗示政府很可能会出手兜底或进行救助。
There's concentrated risk, which, again, it continues to imply that there's probably going to be a government backstop, government bailout.
而今天,有一家公司几乎是唯一一个拥有独特产品、生产成本低但售价高,现金流爆棚、股价直冲云霄的公司。
And then today, one of the only companies that seem to have a unique product that was cheap for them to produce relative to the cost they were able to sell it, cash flow out the wazoo, stock through the roof.
英伟达宣布,将为OpenAI提供高达两千五百亿美元的融资担保。
NVIDIA came out and said, they're gonna guarantee $250,000,000,000 in financing to OpenAI.
我早就说过,OpenAI根本还没盈利。
And I've been calling out OpenAI for a while now of like, are not profitable.
在未来五年内,他们看不到盈利的路径。
The path to profitability is not within the next half decade.
那你说,对于一家连五年都还没撑到的公司,有什么模型能可靠地预测五年之后的事?
So, I mean, what, like, what model is reliable that's further than five years out for a company that's not even five years old?
我们到底在讨论什么?
I mean, what are we talking about?
具体细节包括英伟达提供担保,帮助OpenAI租赁软银在俄亥俄州开发的十吉瓦项目。
So the details include guarantees from NVIDIA to help OpenAI lease a 10 gigawatt project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio.
整个项目总成本可能超过五千亿美元。
In total, the project could cost more than $500,000,000,000.
这些数字说出来真有点难以启齿。
It's hard to say these numbers out loud.
简直太离谱了。
I mean, they're just so preposterous.
成本超过五千亿美元,这是有史以来规模最大的数据中心项目。
Cost more than $500,000,000,000, the largest data center project ever announced.
这个项目的电力供应由美国政府掌控,资金则通过最近的一项贸易协议由日本单独提供。
The power for the project is controlled by the US government and funded separately by Japan under a recent trade deal.
这可是个重要信号。
Signpost.
据报道,商务部长卢廷克正在参与决定谁能获得电力供应。
Commerce secretary Lutnick is reportedly involved in deciding who will get the power.
有意思。
Interesting.
数据中心的建设一下子上了一个全新的台阶。
The data center build out just hit a whole new level.
现在说到英伟达,别忘了,它可是目前标普500指数中市值最大的公司。
Now NVIDIA, I have on the left, don't forget, is the largest waiting in the S and P 500 right now.
他们的信用风险大幅飙升。
Their credit risk jumped tremendously.
看起来仅仅因为今天的这项公告,信用风险就跳涨了40个基点,涨幅高达100%,股价也遭到重挫。
It looks like it jumped jumped 40 basis points over a 100% just based on this announcement today, and the stock got hammered.
整个股市都因为这些决定而遭受重创。
The whole stock market got hammered because of these decisions.
Jim Chenos 写道,我们现在处于这样一个阶段:英伟达必须为大约三分之二的芯片成本提供融资担保,这些芯片是卖给数据中心项目的。
Jim Chenos writes, so we're at the point in the cycle where NVIDIA has to provide financing guarantees for roughly two thirds of the cost of the chips that is selling to the data center project.
接着他又补充说,为了让你对这个数字有多大有个概念,它相当于英伟达总留存收益的 135%。
And then he follows up to that and says, just so you have an idea of how immense that figure is, it represents a 135% of NVIDIA's total retained earnings.
我是说,这些数字简直大得离谱,荒谬至极。
I mean, these are gargantuan preposterous numbers.
我们看到的情况是,所有这些资金的融资被不断向下推,一直推到美国政府的层面。
And what we're seeing is the financing of all of this keeps getting pushed further and further down the stack until you get to the US government.
所以现在英伟达成了最后的贷款人。
So now NVIDIA is the lender of last resort.
那他们还要多久才会被认为信用不佳呢?
And and how long until they're deemed not creditworthy?
我觉得这条推文说得特别到位。
And, you know, I thought this tweet was spot on.
市场现在不再为这种循环融资和收入互相倒手的行为买单了。
The market doesn't reward circular financing and revenues round tripping each other anymore.
这场闹剧该结束了。
Time is up on this whole charade.
这大概就是我一直在说的。
That's kinda what I've been saying.
我不是说人工智能本身是场闹剧。
And I'm not saying AI itself is a charade.
我每天都在用人工智能。
I use AI every day.
它已经站稳脚跟了。
It's here to stay.
我觉得这项创新简直不可思议。
I think it's an unbelievable innovation.
就像我刚才说的,这跟我的世界观非常契合。在我看来,人类的历史就是不断把太阳能商业化的过程。
And like I said, it's very in line with my worldview where I think the human story is commercializing energy from the sun.
比特币就是能源货币。
Bitcoin is energy money.
我们把能源变成了一种可以商业化的商品,还能从中获利。
We have commercialized energy into a market good that we can monetize.
这真是令人难以置信的发明。
That's unbelievable invention.
人工智能正在把能源商业化,把它变成触手可及、价格低廉的智能。
AI is commercializing energy and turning it into accessible cheap intelligence.
这真是令人难以置信的发明。
That's an unbelievable invention.
我是说,谁知道一年、五年甚至十年后世界会变成什么样呢。
I mean, who knows where the world's gonna be in a year, in five years, in ten years.
不过,中国真的会保持竞争力,然后把所有人工智能技术都开源出来吗?
However, is China gonna be really competitive and just open source all of AI?
是不是存在投资失误的情况?
Has there been malinvestment?
到底谁来为这一切提供资金并买单呢?
Who's gonna finance and pay for all of this?
这些问题到现在都没人给出答案。
None of those questions have been answered.
我觉得之前存在大量的错误投资。
I think there's been tons of malinvestment.
咱们聊聊吧,涉及到的金额都是万亿级别的。如果你觉得当年疫情期间的印钞规模已经很大了,那你得知道,投进AI项目的那些错误投资更是天文数字。难道没人想过中国也会具备竞争力吗?
And when we're talking about, you know, on the order of trillions of dollars, guys, like, if you thought the COVID print was big, all of the malinvestment that's gone into AI projects, did nobody think China was gonna be competitive?
我是说,这些假设、风险评估和决策简直让人难以置信,我真不知道最后会怎么收场。
I mean, it's mind blowing assumptions and risk and decisions that have been made, which I don't know how it's gonna work out.
但关键是,软银今天大跌了。
But the point is SoftBank was down big today.
英伟达今天也跌得很惨。
Nvidia was down big today.
市场本质上是在说:这账算不下去。
The market is basically saying, we can't make the math work.
我也觉得这账算不下去。
And I also can't make the math work.
那就走着瞧吧。
And so we'll see.
我觉得美联储和美国财政部,也就是政府和央行,迟早得做个决定:我们到底要保护谁。
Inevitably, I think the Fed and the US Treasury, so the government and the Federal Reserve, are gonna have to decide who are we protecting.
让我换个说法。
Are we who are we let me say it another way.
我们愿意让谁垮掉?
Who are we willing to let fail?
你愿意看到甲骨文、谷歌、Meta这些公司都垮掉吗?
Are you willing to let Oracle, Google, Meta, all these companies fail?
你愿意让OpenAI和Anthropic倒闭吗?
Are you willing to let OpenAI and Anthropic fail?
你愿意让中国赢得人工智能竞赛吗?
Are you willing to let China win the AI race?
你愿意让那些账上堆满烂账的商业银行彻底崩盘吗?
Are you willing to let these commercial banks that probably have dog shit loans riddled throughout their books fail?
如果不愿意,那所有这些问题都得用纸糊过去,这也没问题。
If not, all of this has to be papered over, which is fine.
比特币要冲上天了。
Bitcoin's going to the moon.
如果你真这么想,那我们接下来要经历的这段日子,恐怕没什么投资价值了,毕竟世界可能会彻底乱套。
Now if you are, well, you know, I don't know how investable that little time that we'll have to live through will be because, I mean, the world will fall apart.
但最终它还是会重建起来,我觉得到时候会用上比特币。
It will get built again, and I think it will use Bitcoin.
归根结底,比特币就是我们在货币领域能接触到的最具竞争力的东西。
Ultimately, Bitcoin's just the most competitive thing we have access to in regards to money.
不过,不管怎么说,比特币最终都会赢。
But, I mean, yeah, either way, Bitcoin will win.
我觉得他们会用印钞来掩盖这些问题,而比特币会嗅到这些流动性,成为最大的吸收者,因为它的稀缺性是最高的。
I think that they're going to paper this over, print their way through it, and Bitcoin is gonna sniff that liquidity out and be the greatest absorber of it because it's the scarcest thing.
对吧?
Right?
但是,我是说,各位,每周都有新的AI动态,越来越有意思了。
But, I mean, guys, every single week, this AI stuff just gets a little more interesting.
对吧?
Right?
现在突然之间,英伟达开始为2500亿美元提供担保。
Now all of a sudden, NVIDIA's backing guaranteeing a $250,000,000,000.
跟大家说下,他们这么做的原因是因为OpenAI现在借不到钱了,没人愿意借钱给它。
And just so you guys know, the reason they're doing that is because OpenAI is has lost like, OpenAI no no one's willing to lend to OpenAI.
我换个说法吧。
Let me say it that way.
而且,我是他们产品的用户。
And I, like, I use their products.
我觉得他们做的产品确实挺棒的。
I think OpenAI is great in regards to the products I use.
不过我在那儿没熟人。
I'm I don't know anyone that works there.
我不是在胡说八道,但情况就是这样。
I'm not, like, talking shit, but it's like, okay.
没有银行愿意借钱给这些人。
No bank was willing to lend to these people.
所以他们得让英伟达来兜底,这样才能拿到资金支持来搞建设。
So they had to get NVIDIA to backstop it in order for them to get the backing to build this stuff.
这样我们就能继续这样下去,资产负债表越来越大,贷款方也越来越大,直到最后没人再具备信用资格为止。
So we can continue to kinda, like, shuffle through larger and larger balance sheets, bigger and bigger lenders before no one's credit worthy anymore.
没人能拿到贷款,因为根本还不起这么多钱。
No one can get a loan because there is no ability to pay all of this back.
然后你再去问美国政府,好吧。
And then you ask the US government, like, okay.
你是希望股市和银行体系崩溃,还是说我们必须赢得这场AI竞赛,所以得把这些债务货币化,直接印钱?
Do you want, you know, the stock market and your banking system to fall apart, Or, you know, do we must win the AI race and you gotta monetize your all of this debt and you print it?
所以我们就走着瞧吧。
So we'll see.
但看起来整个AI信贷泡沫正朝着某个终点狂奔。
But it seems that this whole AI credit bubble thing is racing towards some finish line.
而且,这又是另一回事了。
And that and that's another thing.
当我看到市场在定价时,他们好像在说,对,没错。
When I when I see the market pricing in, like, is they're saying, oh, yeah.
利率肯定会上调。
Is definitely gonna raise rates.
这些借钱的人现在要面对利率上调了。
It's like these guys borrowing all this money are gonna go through a rate hike.
总得有人撑不住。
Someone's gonna blow up.
我就直说了。
I'm calling a spade a spade.
肯定有人撑不住。
Somebody's gonna blow up.
他倒是有这个可能。
So he might though.
沃什确实有可能。
Warsh might yeah.
他得证明自己的独立性。
He's gotta establish his independence.
特朗普在媒体上一直喊着要削减、削减、削减。
Trump is out on the airwaves saying cut, cut, cut.
沃什必须让外界看到美联储是独立的。
Warsh has to show that the Fed is independent.
他在这方面一直很明确。
He's been clear on that.
他来这里不是为了救任何人。
He's not here to bail anybody out.
这确实是他的原话。
That those are exactly his words.
美联储来这里不是为了救任何人。
The Fed's not here to bail anybody out.
明白了。
Okay.
他可以加息。
He can hike.
我没说他不能加息。
I'm not saying he can't.
我真的不觉得他该这么做。
I really don't think he should.
不过也无所谓了。
But whatever.
如果有人突然出事,我一点都不意外。
I I just wouldn't be surprised if someone blew up.
我的意思是,上次就是这样的。
I mean, mind you, that's what happened last time.
他们当时大幅加息了。
They hiked rates a bunch.
硅谷银行就崩了。
Silicon Valley Bank blew up.
历史不会重演,但总是惊人的相似。
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.
明白了。
Okay.
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