比特币通过允许用户在其区块链上铸造和交易实物黄金来扩展其功能

比特币通常被称为“数字黄金”，它正在通过允许用户在其区块链上铸造和交易实物黄金来扩展其功能。

Bitcoin, fondly dubbed “digital gold,” is now expanding its capabilities to include the minting and trading of physical gold on its blockchain. This groundbreaking feature is being introduced through the Ordinals protocol, which essentially transforms ownership of real gold into a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) format.

比特币被亲切地称为“数字黄金”，现在正在扩展其功能，包括在其区块链上铸造和交易实物黄金。这一突破性的功能是通过 Ordinals 协议引入的，该协议本质上将真实黄金的所有权转变为不可替代代币（NFT）格式。

Swarm Markets, a platform that specializes in tokenizing real-world assets and is licensed by BaFin in Germany, has joined forces with OrdinalsBot to enable investors to purchase gold bars using Bitcoin. This collaboration marks the introduction of gold as the first real-world asset (RWA) available on Trio, a new marketplace from OrdinalsBot that is set to launch later this year.

Swarm Markets 是一个专门从事现实世界资产代币化的平台，并获得德国 BaFin 的许可，该平台已与 OrdinalsBot 联手，使投资者能够使用比特币购买金条。此次合作标志着黄金成为 Trio 上第一个可用的现实世界资产 (RWA)，Trio 是 OrdinalsBot 的一个新市场，将于今年晚些时候推出。

The Ordinals protocol functions by assigning unique data, such as images or text, to individual satoshis, which are the smallest units of Bitcoin. This adds a unique value to each satoshi, rendering them akin to Bitcoin’s version of NFTs. Swarm and OrdinalsBot have taken this a step further by attaching specific gold kilobar serial numbers to satoshis, which can then be traded through Bitcoin’s Ordinals protocol.

Ordinals 协议通过将图像或文本等独特数据分配给单个聪（比特币的最小单位）来发挥作用。这为每个聪增加了独特的价值，使它们类似于比特币版本的 NFT。 Swarm 和 OrdinalsBot 更进一步，将特定的公斤金序列号附加到聪上，然后可以通过比特币的 Ordinals 协议进行交易。

While both Bitcoin and gold are recognized for their value as assets with a limited supply, they tend to react differently during periods of economic downturn. For instance, gold experienced a surge of 10% to reach record highs during the third quarter of this year as a result of U.S. recession fears, while Bitcoin saw a more modest increase of 0.8%.

尽管比特币和黄金都因其作为供应有限的资产的价值而受到认可，但它们在经济低迷时期往往会做出不同的反应。例如，由于美国经济衰退的担忧，今年第三季度黄金飙升 10%，创下历史新高，而比特币则温和上涨 0.8%。

Swarm’s Ordinals platform now provides investors with the capability to hold both physical and digital gold on a single blockchain, which could potentially put an end to the long-standing debate over which form of gold to invest in. As Timo Lehes, co-founder of Swarm, stated in a press release to CoinDesk, “Investors no longer need to choose between real or digital gold, when Swarm’s Ordinals allow them to hold both using one blockchain as a unified infrastructure.”

Swarm 的 Ordinals 平台现在为投资者提供了在单个区块链上同时持有实物和数字黄金的能力，这可能会结束关于投资哪种形式的黄金的长期争论。正如 Timo Lehes 的联合创始人Swarm 在给 CoinDesk 的一份新闻稿中表示，“当 Swarm 的序数允许他们使用一个区块链作为统一基础设施来持有实物黄金和数字黄金时，投资者不再需要在实物黄金和数字黄金之间进行选择。”