傳奇投資者 Tim Draper 預測，比特幣 (BTC) 將成為未來的貨幣

矽谷傳奇投資者和加密貨幣愛好者 Timothy 'Tim' Draper 表示，儘管比特幣上週突破了創紀錄的 90,000 美元水平，但它仍然「便宜」。

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper has said that Bitcoin is still “cheap” despite crossing the record $90,000 mark last week. He predicts that the token will become the currency of the future, enabling people to buy food, clothing, shelter, and even pay taxes in Bitcoin.

矽谷創投家 Tim Draper 表示，儘管比特幣上週突破了創紀錄的 9 萬美元大關，但仍然「便宜」。他預測該代幣將成為未來的貨幣，使人們能夠用比特幣購買食物、衣服、住所，甚至納稅。

“Bitcoin is going to be the currency of the future. I don't know if it's five years from now, 10 years from now, when it's going to be so. But there will be a moment in time when you can buy your food, your clothing, your shelter, all in Bitcoin. Pay your taxes in Bitcoin. One day you would say, 'Why do I want government currency in my wallet?... I think I'll just go with Bitcoin.' When that moment happens, there'll be runs on the banks,” Draper told Moneycontrol during his recent visit to India.

「比特幣將成為未來的貨幣。我不知道五年後、十年後什麼時候會這樣。但總有一天，你可以用比特幣購買食物、衣服、住所。用比特幣繳稅。有一天你會說，“為什麼我的錢包裡需要政府貨幣？…我想我會選擇比特幣。”當那一刻發生時，銀行就會出現擠兌，」德雷珀在最近訪問印度時告訴Moneycontrol。

Draper is currently traveling across six cities in the country to shoot the latest season of his popular startup pitching show ‘Meet the Drapers’ in partnership with TiE Mumbai.

Draper 目前正在全國六個城市旅行，與 TiE Mumbai 合作拍攝他廣受歡迎的創業推廣節目「Meet the Drapers」的最新一季。

An early believer in crypto, Draper has been investing in it for over a decade now. In 2014, he was the sole winner of an auction bidding for 30,000 Bitcoins organized by the US Marshals Service.

Draper 是加密貨幣的早期信徒，十多年來一直在投資。 2014年，他成為美國法警局組織的30,000比特幣拍賣的唯一獲勝者。

To date, he has invested in over 50 crypto companies and led investments in Coinbase, Ledger, Tezos, and Bancor, among others. Draper is also an early investor in tech companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Hotmail, Baidu, and Robinhood.

迄今為止，他已投資了 50 多家加密貨幣公司，並主導了 Coinbase、Ledger、Tezos 和 Bancor 等公司的投資。 Draper 也是特斯拉、SpaceX、Hotmail、百度和 Robinhood 等科技公司的早期投資者。

Bitcoin and other crypto tokens have been rallying for the past couple of months on the back of speculations regarding pro-crypto US presidential candidate Donald Trump winning the elections. After Trump came into power a few weeks ago, the prices of Bitcoin scaled to record highs, and the rally continued.

過去幾個月，由於對支持加密貨幣的美國總統候選人唐納德·川普贏得選舉的猜測，比特幣和其他加密貨幣代幣一直在上漲。幾週前川普上台後，比特幣價格創下歷史新高，漲勢仍在持續。

“When Bitcoin really becomes the dominant currency of the world, who's going to want a government currency? Then the stablecoins are interesting, but they're tied to the government currency… There's a gravitation towards Bitcoin. I would buy it at these levels because Bitcoin's worth $2 trillion or something? But the global currency economy is $100-plus trillion. So there's no reason Bitcoin doesn't go up about 30 times from here,” he said.

「當比特幣真正成為世界主導貨幣時，誰會想要政府貨幣？然後穩定幣很有趣，但它們與政府貨幣掛鉤……人們對比特幣有一種吸引力。我會在這樣的水平上購買它，因為比特幣價值 2 兆美元還是什麼？但全球貨幣經濟規模已超過100兆美元。因此，比特幣沒有理由不從這裡上漲 30 倍左右，」他說。

He predicts that this bullishness around Bitcoin will also drive creativity among crypto entrepreneurs in the US. “These things that all the entrepreneurs were trying to do, and then they realized they had to geofence the US, cutting the US customer out of it. Now they'll be able to do it again. And I think that's great.”

他預測，圍繞比特幣的這種看漲情緒也將激發美國加密貨幣企業家的創造力。 「所有企業家都在嘗試做這些事情，然後他們意識到必須對美國進行地理圍欄，將美國客戶排除在外。現在他們將能夠再次做到這一點。我認為這很棒。

Crypto had a banner year globally in 2024, with the US SEC approving Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and the subsequent Bitcoin halving event, which led to a price rally.

2024 年，加密貨幣在全球度過了輝煌的一年，美國 SEC 批准了比特幣交易所交易基金 (ETF) 以及隨後的比特幣減半事件，導致價格上漲。