溫哥華市長希望讓這座城市“對比特幣友好”

溫哥華市議會已批准市長 Ken Sim 提出的一項動議，以使該市成為「比特幣友善城市」。市政府工作人員現在將調查 Sim 將部分城市儲備資金轉換為比特幣的想法

Vancouver city council has approved a motion brought by Mayor Ken Sim to make the city "bitcoin-friendly."

溫哥華市議會已批准市長 Ken Sim 提出的一項動議，以使該市成為「比特幣友善城市」。

City staff will now investigate Sim's idea of converting a portion of the city's reserve funds to bitcoin, even though the province says it's not allowed.

市政府工作人員現在將調查 Sim 將部分市府儲備資金轉換為比特幣的想法，儘管該省表示不允許這樣做。

Speaking to Gloria Macarenko, the host of CBC's On The Coast, Sim defended his position that holding bitcoin would be a smart move for Vancouver and Vancouverites.

Sim 在接受 CBC 海岸節目主持人 Gloria Macarenko 採訪時捍衛了自己的立場，即持有比特幣對於溫哥華和溫哥華人來說是明智之舉。

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

為了篇幅和清晰度，採訪內容經過編輯。

Why should Vancouver become a bitcoin-friendly city?

為什麼溫哥華應該成為比特幣友善城市？

There are a bunch of reasons, but I think the biggest one is we want to set the city up for the next 100 years ... When you look at the inflationary pressures, when you look at the debasement to currencies across the planet, I think we're going to be in a situation where we won't be able to keep up our level of services at the City of Vancouver unless we increase taxes significantly in the future or we cut services.

原因有很多，但我認為最重要的一個是我們希望為未來 100 年建立這座城市......當你看到通貨膨脹壓力，當你看到全球貨幣貶值時，我認為除非我們在未來大幅增加稅收或削減服務，否則我們將無法維持溫哥華市的服務水準。

I'm not giving financial advice whatsoever, but it does seem like [bitcoin] could be part of the solution.

我不會提供任何財務建議，但看起來[比特幣]確實可以成為解決方案的一部分。

What is bitcoin? How does it work?

什麼是比特幣？它是如何運作的？

Bitcoin is basically ... a platform. You can call it a technology. You can call it money, but it's basically this thing that [is] decentralized; it can't be controlled by any one person, company or country. It's finite. So there's only going to be 21 million bitcoin ever and that doesn't happen until the year 2140.

比特幣基本上就是…一個平台。你可以稱之為一種技術。你可以稱之為金錢，但基本上它是去中心化的；它不能由任何個人、公司或國家控制。這是有限的。因此，比特幣的總量只有 2,100 萬個，而且要到 2140 年才會發生。

And what that means is it's basically perfect money ... Think of all the individuals in our city or across North America who feel that their groceries cost twice as much as they did five years ago. It's because the purchasing power of our dollars has gone down because governments around the world are printing more money. With bitcoin, you can't print more of it. There's a schedule, and it's finite. It's absolutely incredible.

這意味著它基本上是完美的錢......想想我們城市或整個北美的所有個人，他們認為他們的雜貨價格是五年前的兩倍。這是因為我們美元的購買力下降了，因為世界各國政府正在印更多的錢。對於比特幣，你無法列印更多的比特幣。有一個時間表，而且是有限的。這絕對令人難以置信。

Are you suggesting that our groceries would be cheaper in the future if more people invested in bitcoin?

您是否認為如果更多的人投資比特幣，我們的雜貨將來會更便宜？

No, what I'm saying is bitcoin is the true ledger of account. It's the only true ledger of account on the planet ... If I told you that house prices haven't changed in Vancouver since 1930, you'd think I was nuts. And when I heard that, I didn't believe it as well. So, I ran some numbers. I went back to 1995, and in Vancouver, the average house price cost $500,000 in 1995. And in 2022, it cost $2.43 million, or it's gone up 381 per cent.

不，我是說比特幣是真正的帳戶分類帳。這是地球上唯一真實的帳本……如果我告訴你溫哥華的房價自 1930 年以來就沒有變化，你會認為我瘋了。當我聽到這句話時，我也不相信。所以，我跑了一些數字。我回到1995年，在溫哥華，1995年的平均房價為50萬美元。

If you had to purchase these homes in terms of gold, in 1995, it would have cost you 958 ounces of gold to buy that house, and in 2022, it would have cost you 957 ounces of gold. It basically remained the same price.

如果您必須用黃金購買這些房屋，那麼在 1995 年，您將花費 958 盎司黃金來購買該房屋，而在 2022 年，您將花費 957 盎司黃金。價格基本不變。

If you want to set up the city of Vancouver for success, we have to understand that relationship and then protect our city from it. So it's not necessarily a bitcoin conversation. It could be: should the city invest in gold or should it invest in real estate or whatever to protect, preserve the capital that our city has?

如果你想讓溫哥華市取得成功，我們必須了解這種關係，然後保護我們的城市免受這種關係的影響。所以不一定是比特幣對話。可能是：城市應該投資黃金還是應該投資房地產或其他任何東西來保護、保存我們城市擁有的資本？

Should it?

應該嗎？

I'm not giving investment advice. I'm going to take off my mayor's hat off for a sec. If I were to look at it personally when I look at those three options, I actually think — and this is my own personal opinion, this is not giving anyone advice, and I'm not even saying I'm right — I would go bitcoin all day long because gold is basically an analog version of bitcoin. It's not divisible. You can actually confiscate it. Like, there's a whole bunch of reasons why bitcoin is far superior to gold.

我不提供投資建議。我要暫時摘掉市長的帽子。如果我個人來看，當我考慮這三個選項時，我實際上認為——這是我個人的觀點，這不是給任何人建議，我甚至不是說我是對的——我會去比特幣整天都是因為黃金基本上是比特幣的模擬版本。它不可分割。其實你可以沒收它。就像，有很多原因可以解釋為什麼比特幣遠遠優於黃金。

BC's ministry of municipal affairs told CBC "...local governments in British Columbia, including the City of Vancouver, aren't able to hold financial reserves in cryptocurrency ... The intent of the legislation is that local government funds are not exposed to undue risk." What kind of work would it take through the province before Vancouver is even allowed to hold bitcoin?

不列顛哥倫比亞省市政事務部告訴加拿大廣播公司「......不列顛哥倫比亞省的地方政府，包括溫哥華市，無法持有加密貨幣的財政儲備......該立法的目的是地方政府資金不會暴露於加密貨幣中”不適當的風險。”在溫哥華被允許持有比特幣之前，全省需要做哪些工作？

It's going to take a lot of work, but we don't shy away from these things; we keep driving forward... As a municipality, we have a fiduciary responsibility to match our revenues with our expenses so we can run the city. No one's denying that. What I would say is we live in a different world. Technology is moving at the speed of light. We have digital currency. I'm highly confident that this is going to be ubiquitous across the planet in the next five years.

這需要做很多工作，但我們不會迴避這些事情；我們不斷前進……作為一個市政府，我們有信託責任將我們的收入與支出相匹配，以便我們能夠管理這座城市。沒有人否認這一點。我想說的是我們生活在一個不同的世界。科技正在以光速發展。我們有數位貨幣。我非常有信心在未來五年內這將在全球範圍內普遍存在。

We've heard financial

我們聽過金融