温哥华市长希望让这座城市“对比特币友好”

温哥华市议会已批准市长 Ken Sim 提出的一项动议，以使该市成为“比特币友好型城市”。市政府工作人员现在将调查 Sim 将部分城市储备资金转换为比特币的想法

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

温哥华市议会已批准市长 Ken Sim 提出的一项动议，以使该市成为“比特币友好型城市”。

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.

市政府工作人员现在将调查 Sim 将部分市储备资金转换为比特币的想法，尽管该省表示不允许这样做。

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 海岸节目主持人格洛丽亚·马卡连科 (Gloria Macarenko) 采访时捍卫了自己的立场，即持有比特币对于温哥华和温哥华人来说是明智之举。

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

为了篇幅和清晰度，采访内容经过编辑。

Why should Vancouver become a bitcoin-friendly city?

为什么温哥华应该成为比特币友好城市？

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，但我认为最重要的一个是我们希望为未来 100 年建立这座城市......当你看到通货膨胀压力，当你看到全球货币贬值时，我我认为除非我们在未来大幅增加税收或削减服务，否则我们将无法保持温哥华市的服务水平。

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

我不会提供任何财务建议，但看起来[比特币]确实可以成为解决方案的一部分。

What is bitcoin? How does it work?

什么是比特币？它是如何运作的？

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.

比特币基本上是……一个平台。你可以称之为一种技术。你可以称之为金钱，但它基本上是去中心化的；它不能由任何个人、公司或国家控制。这是有限的。因此，比特币的总量只有 2100 万个，而且要到 2140 年才会发生。

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.

这意味着它基本上是完美的钱......想想我们城市或整个北美的所有个人，他们认为他们的杂货价格是五年前的两倍。这是因为我们美元的购买力下降了，因为世界各国政府正在印更多的钱。对于比特币，你无法打印更多的比特币。有一个时间表，而且是有限的。这绝对令人难以置信。

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

您是否认为如果更多的人投资比特币，我们的杂货将来会更便宜？

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，我是说比特币是真正的账户分类账。这是地球上唯一真实的账本……如果我告诉你温哥华的房价自 1930 年以来就没有变化，你会认为我疯了。当我听到这句话时，我也不相信。所以，我跑了一些数字。我回到1995年，在温哥华，1995年的平均房价为50万美元。而到了2022年，它的价格为243万美元，即上涨了381%。

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.

如果您必须用黄金购买这些房屋，那么在 1995 年，您将花费 958 盎司黄金来购买该房屋，而在 2022 年，您将花费 957 盎司黄金。价格基本保持不变。

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?

如果你想让温哥华市取得成功，我们就必须了解这种关系，然后保护我们的城市免受这种关系的影响。所以这不一定是比特币对话。可能是：城市应该投资黄金还是应该投资房地产或其他任何东西来保护、保存我们城市拥有的资本？

Should it?

应该吗？

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.

我不提供投资建议。我要暂时摘掉市长的帽子。如果我个人来看，当我考虑这三个选项时，我实际上认为——这是我个人的观点，这不是给任何人建议，我什至不是说我是对的——我会去比特币整天都是因为黄金基本上是比特币的模拟版本。它不可分割。其实你可以没收它。就像，有很多原因可以解释为什么比特币远远优于黄金。

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?

不列颠哥伦比亚省市政事务部告诉加拿大广播公司“......不列颠哥伦比亚省的地方政府，包括温哥华市，无法持有加密货币的财政储备......该立法的目的是地方政府资金不会暴露于加密货币中”不适当的风险。”在温哥华被允许持有比特币之前，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.

这需要做很多工作，但我们不会回避这些事情；我们不断前进……作为一个市政府，我们有信托责任将我们的收入与支出相匹配，以便我们能够管理这座城市。没有人否认这一点。我想说的是我们生活在一个不同的世界。技术正在以光速发展。我们有数字货币。我非常有信心，未来五年内这将在全球范围内普遍存在。

We've heard financial

我们听说过金融