与加密货币无关的企业开始购买比特币

总统选举几周后，营销公司 Banzai 的首席执行官 Joe Davy 向公司董事会发送了一封电子邮件：他希望 Banzai 开始购买比特币。

A couple of weeks after the presidential election, Joe Davy, chief executive of the marketing firm Banzai, sent an email to the company’s board of directors: He wanted Banzai to start buying Bitcoin.

总统选举几周后，营销公司 Banzai 的首席执行官 Joe Davy 向公司董事会发送了一封电子邮件：他希望 Banzai 开始购买比特币。

On the face of it, a plunge into the freewheeling world of cryptocurrencies was a strange move for Banzai, a Nasdaq-listed company known for its corporate webinar product. But the election of Donald J. Trump, who embraced Bitcoin on the campaign trail, had galvanized the crypto industry and sent prices skyrocketing. Mr. Davy argued that the investment would protect the company’s finances in case inflation devalued the U.S. dollar, a common but widely contested claim made by crypto enthusiasts.

从表面上看，对于 Banzai 这家以企业网络研讨会产品闻名的纳斯达克上市公司来说，进入随心所欲的加密货币世界是一个奇怪的举动。但唐纳德·J·特朗普(Donald J. Trump)在竞选过程中拥抱比特币，他的当选刺激了加密货币行业，导致价格飞涨。戴维认为，如果通胀导致美元贬值，这项投资将保护公司的财务状况，这是加密货币爱好者常见但备受争议的说法。

On Nov. 26, Banzai announced that it would spend up to 10 percent of the funds it held in its corporate treasury on Bitcoin. (The company reported $4.3 million in cash in its latest quarterly report.) “It ended up being a pretty straightforward conversation,” Mr. Davy said in an interview. “It makes sense to own this thing.”

11 月 26 日，Banzai 宣布将把公司财务中最多 10% 的资金用于购买比特币。 （该公司在最新的季度报告中公布了 430 万美元现金。）“这最终成为一次非常简单的对话，”戴维在接受采访时说道。 “拥有这个东西是有意义的。”

As the price of Bitcoin has soared, a small but growing number of businesses that have nothing to do with crypto — like Banzai — have started to build up stockpiles, linking their financial performance, at least in part, to volatile digital currency markets.

随着比特币价格的飙升，一小部分与加密货币无关的企业（例如 Banzai）开始增加库存，将其财务业绩（至少在一定程度上）与不稳定的数字货币市场联系起来。