股神巴菲特對比特幣一如既往地"不買賬"

When Warren Buffett speaks, investors listen. And Buffett is still not sold on bitcoin.

當沃倫·巴菲特發表見解時，投資者會“言聽計從”。而巴菲特現在仍對比特幣“不買賬”。

In an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance in Omaha, Neb., leading up to Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting, Buffett laid out his latest thinking on cryptocurrency investing.

在伯克希爾·哈撒韋公司的年度股東大會召開前夕，巴菲特在內布拉斯加州奧馬哈接受《雅虎財經》獨家專訪時對加密貨幣投資進行了最新闡述。

"There's two kinds of items that people buy and think they're investing," he says. "One really is investing and the other isn't." Bitcoin, he says, isn't.

他說道：“人們通常會購買兩種東西，認爲自己是在投資。一種是真正的投資，而另一種則不是。”巴菲特稱，比特幣屬於後者。

"If you buy something like a farm, an apartment house, or an interest in a business… You can do that on a private basis… And it's a perfectly satisfactory investment. You look at the investment itself to deliver the return to you."

“如果你買了一個農場、一套公寓，或者對一家企業感興趣你，可以基於私人基礎做這些事情，這完全符合投資。你關注投資本身，期望獲得回報。”

"Now, if you buy something like bitcoin or some cryptocurrency, you don't really have anything that has produced anything. You're just hoping the next guy pays more."

“如今，如果你買了比特幣或一些加密貨幣，它們不會產生任何東西，你只是希望下一個接盤者付出更多。”

"When you buy cryptocurrency," Buffett continues, "you aren't investing when you do that. You're speculating. There's nothing wrong with it. If you wanna gamble somebody else will come along and pay more money tomorrow, that's one kind of game. That is not investing."

巴菲特繼續說：“當你購買加密貨幣時，你並不是在投資。你在投機。這沒什麼不對的。如果你想賭一把，明天就會有人來並願意付更多的錢，這就是賭博的一種。這不是投資。”

To be sure, many big banks and blue-chip American corporations like IBM, have embraced blockchain, the underlying decentralized ledger technology on which bitcoin is built. But for now, Buffett isn't sold on crypto.

可以肯定的是，許多大銀行和像IBM這樣的美國藍籌公司都已經接受了區塊鏈，這是一種底層的去中心化的分類記賬技術，基於此併產生了比特幣。但就目前而言，巴菲特顯然對加密技術並不“買賬”。