来自房地产和股票：前英超球员对比特币的新热爱

足球运动员 George Boyd 出场 100 多次英超联赛，现已加入加密 ETF 发行人 Jacobi Asset Management 担任大使。

Former Premier League soccer player George Boyd has joined crypto ETF issuer Jacobi Asset Management as an ambassador.

前英超足球运动员 George Boyd 已加入加密 ETF 发行人 Jacobi Asset Management 担任大使。

Fresh out of the academy at Stevenage in 2004, Boyd was told by his agent to put his cash into real estate and stocks. At the time, bitcoin (BTC) was trading at just $1,800 and, like most people, he dismissed it. He was happy to follow the advice he'd received at the start of his career.

2004 年，博伊德刚从斯蒂夫尼奇学院毕业，他的经纪人告诉他将现金投入房地产和股票。当时，比特币 (BTC) 的交易价格仅为 1,800 美元，和大多数人一样，他对此不以为然。他很高兴遵循他在职业生涯初期收到的建议。

However, the more Boyd learned, the more his outlook changed. The 39-year-old, who appeared in more than 100 games for Burnley FC and Hull City, went on to play in the final of the FA Cup — the U.K.'s most prestigious domestic football competition. He is now an ambassador for Jacobi Asset Management and sees bitcoin as a great source of generating generational wealth.

然而，博伊德了解得越多，他的观点就越改变。这位39岁的球员为伯恩利足球俱乐部和赫尔城出场超过100场比赛，随后参加了英国最负盛名的国内足球赛事——足总杯的决赛。他现在是雅可比资产管理公司的大使，并将比特币视为创造一代人财富的重要来源。

“I had a really good agent who looked after me well. His mentality was to start me in property, so I bought into the property market and I've also got a stock portfolio. So that was our sort of general thesis. Now, I try to sell them all and then buy more bitcoin.”

“我有一个非常好的经纪人，他把我照顾得很好。他的想法是让我从房地产开始，所以我买入了房地产市场，并且还拥有股票投资组合。这就是我们的一般论点。现在，我尝试把它们全部卖掉，然后购买更多的比特币。”

Premier League players have a shorter career span than the average person who works until they retire in their mid-60s. For professionals like Boyd, it's not just a case of accumulating wealth, but also preserving it.

英超球员的职业生涯比一般人工作到 60 多岁退休的时间要短。对于博伊德这样的专业人士来说，这不仅是积累财富的问题，也是保护财富的问题。

“So I had a really good agent who looked after me well. His mentality was to start me in property, so I bought into the property market and I've also got a stock portfolio. So that was our sort of general thesis. Now, I try to sell them all and then buy more bitcoin.”

“所以我有一个非常好的经纪人，他把我照顾得很好。他的想法是让我从房地产开始，所以我买入了房地产市场，并且还拥有股票投资组合。这就是我们的一般论点。现在，我尝试把它们全部卖掉，然后购买更多的比特币。”

His journey into bitcoin began in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, although he was initially skeptical of the token and its value. Later, he learned how the current monetary system is driving up inflation and how the old-school mentality of investing through property or savings in a bank doesn't work anymore.

他的比特币之旅始于 2020 年新冠疫情期间，尽管他最初对这种代币及其价值持怀疑态度。后来，他了解到当前的货币体系如何推高通货膨胀，以及通过房地产或银行储蓄进行投资的老派心态如何不再起作用。

“I think that happened with COVID. Your eyes open even more … I think the monetary system, once you do go around it and with inflation, how it's stealing from us. I've tried to tell friends, and they're still not listening. But bitcoin just fits today. It's more of a store of value.”

“我认为新冠疫情就是这样。你的眼睛睁得更大……我认为货币体系，一旦你绕过它，随着通货膨胀，它是如何从我们那里偷窃的。我试图告诉朋友们，但他们仍然不听。但比特币正好适合今天。它更像是一种价值储存手段。”

After learning about bitcoin, Boyd realized the importance of understanding the difference between bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as well as the benefits of self-custody. He also criticized the traditional financial advice given to soccer players and advocated using bitcoin as a means of creating sustainable wealth.

在了解了比特币之后，博伊德意识到了解比特币和其他加密货币之间的区别以及自我托管的好处的重要性。他还批评了向足球运动员提供的传统财务建议，并主张使用比特币作为创造可持续财富的手段。

“We're not talking [profits], we're talking generational wealth, if you get it right and correct, we're talking about, generations of families being set up for life. I think that's how big it is.”

“我们不是在谈论[利润]，我们是在谈论代际财富，如果你说得正确且正确，我们谈论的是，几代人的家庭将终身受益。我想这就是它的规模。”

Some sports personalities have come out in support of bitcoin. A few, like the National Football League's (NFL) Russell Okung, decided to be paid in bitcoin. Others include the NFL's Odell Beckham Jr. and Premier League's Kieran Gibbs, who sat down on the Peter McCormack podcast “What Bitcoin Did.”

一些体育界人士也站出来支持比特币。一些人，比如美国国家橄榄球联盟 (NFL) 的拉塞尔·奥孔 (Russell Okung)，决定以比特币支付。其他人包括美国国家橄榄球联盟 (NFL) 的奥德尔·贝克汉姆 (Odell Beckham Jr.) 和英超联赛 (Premier League) 的基兰·吉布斯 (Kieran Gibbs)，后者参加了彼得·麦考马克 (Peter McCormack) 播客“比特币做了什么”。

“Sports people have a very unique earning window in that their capacity to earn is high yet the window in which to do this is low, unlike most careers,” said Peter Lane, co-founder of Jacobi Asset Management, which listed Europe's first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in 2023.

上市欧洲第一个比特币的 Jacobi 资产管理公司联合创始人 Peter Lane 表示：“与大多数职业不同，运动员有一个非常独特的赚钱窗口，因为他们的赚钱能力很高，但实现这一目标的窗口却很低。” 2023 年上市交易基金 (ETF)。

"Retiring in your 30’s means that you need to make the wealth you've accumulated last possibly another 60 years unlike most people who work 40 years to retire for 20 years or so. These guys need an asset that will keep them wealthy for a very long retirement and we feel that bitcoin is in an ideal position to offer that.”

“30 多岁退休意味着你需要让自己积累的财富再维持 60 年，这与大多数工作 40 年才能退休 20 年左右的人不同。这些人需要一项资产，让他们在很长一段时间内保持富裕。退休时间很长，我们认为比特币处于提供这一点的理想位置。”