泰国将使用比特币（BTC）促进外国游客在普吉岛购房

1月初，泰国总理皮查伊·春哈瓦吉拉(Pichai Chunhavajira)宣布了一项试点计划，允许外国游客在普吉岛使用数字货币进行支付。

Thailand is set to begin a pilot program that will allow foreign tourists in Phuket to use digital currencies for payments.

泰国将开始一项试点计划，允许普吉岛的外国游客使用数字货币进行支付。

The program was announced by Deputy PM Pichai Chunhavajira at a seminar organized by the Marketing Association of Thailand on Monday. It aims to make paying for large purchases like houses easier and boost the local economy.

该计划是由副总理皮查伊·春哈瓦吉拉 (Pichai Chunhavajira) 周一在泰国营销协会组织的研讨会上宣布的。它的目的是让支付房屋等大宗商品的费用变得更容易，并促进当地经济。

Chunhavajira specifically mentioned how those who fled the war in Ukraine and settled in Phuket could use BTC to buy a house. The process would involve registering with an approved Thai exchange, verifying their identity, and then moving the digital currency to a clearing house for conversion into Thai Baht.

Chunhavajira 特别提到了那些逃离乌克兰战争并在普吉岛定居的人如何使用 BTC 买房。该过程将涉及在经批准的泰国交易所注册，验证其身份，然后将数字货币转移到清算所以转换为泰铢。

“Those who fled the Russia-Ukraine war and settled in Phuket might find it difficult to obtain 50 million baht to purchase a house. However, paying with Bitcoin could be a much simpler process,” Chunhavajira said.

“那些逃离俄罗斯和乌克兰战争并定居在普吉岛的人可能会发现很难获得5000万泰铢买房。然而，用比特币支付可能是一个更简单的过程，”Chunhavajira 说。

No new laws will be required before the pilot launches. Everything will operate within the existing legal framework, making it simple and easy to use Bitcoin and other digital currencies as cash in Phuket.

在试点启动之前不需要制定新的法律。一切都将在现有的法律框架内运作，使得在普吉岛使用比特币和其他数字货币作为现金变得简单和容易。

Those who have been involved in Bitcoin for a long time will know that the digital gold narrative is relatively new. Bitcoin was always supposed to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, as the excerpt of the white paper makes abundantly clear.

长期接触比特币的人都会知道，数字黄金的叙述相对较新。正如白皮书的摘录所表明的那样，比特币一直被认为是一种点对点电子现金系统。

Of course, thanks to the radical and irreversible changes made to BTC by Blockstream, BTC transactions are now limited to the type of large purchases mentioned by the Thai Deputy PM. Phuket tourists will be unlikely to pay for meals out and beers with BTC unless they know how to navigate the convoluted mess that is the Lightning Network.

当然，由于Blockstream对BTC进行了彻底且不可逆转的改变，BTC交易现在仅限于泰国副总理提到的大额购买类型。普吉岛游客不太可能用比特币支付外出就餐和啤酒的费用，除非他们知道如何应对闪电网络这一错综复杂的混乱局面。

While BTC will do fine for large purchases like houses, the Thai government should also pilot BSV, making small, casual transactions like paying for a beer or a meal out possible. Thai citizens would also benefit from using a powerful micropayment system.

虽然 BTC 对于房屋等大额购买来说效果很好，但泰国政府也应该试点 BSV，使小额、随意的交易成为可能，例如支付啤酒或外出就餐的费用。泰国公民也将受益于使用强大的小额支付系统。

In any case, it’s great to see Bitcoin being used for its original purpose—payments. If the Phuket pilot is successful, hopefully, it will be rolled out nationwide and further afield across Southeast Asia and elsewhere. As the idea of using digital currencies rather than holding them for fiat gains takes root, the most efficient systems will begin to shine.

无论如何，很高兴看到比特币被用于其最初的目的——支付。如果普吉岛试点成功，有望在全国范围内推广到东南亚和其他地区。随着使用数字货币而不是持有数字货币以获得法定收益的想法深入人心，最高效的系统将开始大放异彩。

Sooner or later, governments and their citizens will discover how transparent, low-fee peer-to-peer payments can boost their economies, reduce fraud, and unleash new business models and possibilities. Pilots like these will get us there, one at a time!

政府及其公民迟早会发现透明、低费用的点对点支付如何能够促进经济发展、减少欺诈并释放新的商业模式和可能性。像这样的飞行员会把我们带到那里，一次一个！

Watch: New age of payment solutions

观看：支付解决方案的新时代