Bitcoin

Bitcoin could also lower transaction costs or ease the transmission of remittances.

这种货币也可以降低交易费用，缓解汇款传输系统的压力。

Tim Swanson, a consultant to the industry, says bitcoin is too complex to achieve that goal.

该行业的顾问蒂姆斯旺森（Tim Swanson）称，比特币太复杂，难以达成这一目标。

But there is another bitcoin saga that investors should watch.

但是，还有另一场关于比特币的大戏值得投资者关注。

With the bitcoin ATM, users scan their hand to confirm identity, then funds move to or from a virtual wallet on their smartphone.

使用比特币ATM机时，消费者要进行手掌扫描，以确认身份，然后再通过智能手机的虚拟钱包进行转账。

Enter bitcoin, the online virtual currency.

于是，网络虚拟货币“比特币”悄然登场。

So several months ago, Collison began brainstorming with McCaleb, who had helped build Ripple, a Bitcoin rival.

几个月前，克里森开始和麦凯莱布探讨这个想法。麦凯莱布曾帮人创建了Ripple公司，它后来成了比特币平台的对手。

Now comes word that fortress investment group ( fig) is prepping its own bitcoin fund, which likely will be much larger than the secondmarket offering.

最近有传言称，峰堡投资集团（Fortress Investment Group）正在筹备自己的比特币基金，规模可能远远大于SecondMarket的同类产品。

Wayi International Digital Entertainment Co., a Taiwanese online game provider, has said it intends to accept bitcoin and may even become an exchange.

台湾网络游戏供应商华义国际数位娱乐股份有限公司（Wayi International Digital Entertainment Co.）表示，公司计划接受比特币，将来甚至可能成为一个交易平台。

And rapper 50 Cent is accepting bitcoin as payment for his latest album.

饶舌歌手50cent也以比特币的形式收到他最新专辑的报酬。

These are not young people, they're Bitcoin miners.

他们并不一定是年轻人，他们是比特币矿工。

Unlike national currency, Bitcoin is not issued by governments.

与国家货币不同的是，比特币并非由政府发行。

A virtual bitcoin bank might spring up but that would create problems of its own.

虚拟的比特币银行可能也会出现，但会有其自身的问题。

The Bitcoin is a form of electronic money which has been created specifically for use on the Internet.

比特币（Bitcoin）是电子货币的一种形式，是专为互联网交易使用创造的货币。

There is growing pressure on regulators to rein in the cryptocurrency sector, but bitcoin continues to flourish.

监管部门受到越来越大的压力，要求他们约束加密货币领域，但比特币势头不减。

China's financial market regulators are seeking opinions about how to better regulate trading of bitcoin, the virtual currency. These steps may include setting up a depository platform, said sources with close knowledge of the matter.

金融市场监管部门就如何更好地规范虚拟货币比特币的交易征询意见，内部消息称，或将建立托管平台。

Authorities visited executives of a number of bitcoin trading platforms last week, and have inquired how the platform works when value of the virtual currency plunges and surges, a person at a Shanghai-based digital trading platform told China Daily.

上海一位数字交易平台人士对《中国日报》表示，监管部门上周约见了几个比特币交易平台的负责人，讨论了比特币行情波动时托管平台的运行方式。

Yet the resurgent Bitcoin optimism in China still faces one significant hurdle.

然而，在中国再现的看好比特币势头仍面临一道重大障碍。

So given all this, why is the price of bitcoin so high?

那么，鉴于所有这一切，比特币的价格为什么依然坚挺呢？

ATM users can either buy or sell bitcoin through the machines.

用户可以通过ATM买入或卖出比特币。

Why the bitcoin love in China?

为什么比特币对中国情有独钟？

As for bitcoin in the mainstream banking system?

至于说比特币进入主流银行体系？

Two US agents investigating Silk Road have been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin and other digital currencies while assigned to a task force probing the underground marketplace.

两名调查丝绸之路（Silk Road）的美国特工，被控在被派至调查这一地下市场的行动小组时，窃取价值数十万美元的比特币及其他数字化货币。

Bitcoin is accepted in trade by various merchants and individuals in many parts of the world.

比特币已经在全球多个地方被商家及个人所接受。

Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper's examination of the rise of bitcoin, the virtual currency;

《数字黄金：比特币背后不为人知的故事》（Digital Gold:The Untold Story of Bitcoin），作者纳塔涅尔波佩尔（Nathaniel Popper）审视了虚拟货币比特币的崛起；

Bill Finley started accepting bitcoin last October at his clothing store Hemp Company in Vancouver, and gets about three bitcoin sales a month, he said.

比尔o芬利在温哥华开的服装店Hemp Company去年10月份开始接受比特币。他说，比特币消费每个月大概会出现三次。

Currently, bitcoin is an unregulated, online-only, synthetic currency created in 2009 by a programmer known only by the nom de Guerre Satoshi Nakamoto.

比特币是一种合成货币，由一位化名中本聪的程序员于2009年发明，目前未受监管，而且只在网上使用。

The Bank of England says the current levels of economic activity and payments involving Bitcoin are too light to have any impact on financial stability.

英国央行（bank of England）表示，当前涉及比特币的经济活动和支付的规模都很小，不会影响到金融体系的稳定性。

China's central bank last month asked some domestic payment processors to stop trading with the country's biggest bitcoin exchange, BTC China.

上个月中国央行要求国内一些支付公司停止为中国最大的比特币交易平台比特币中国（BTC China）提供支付与结算服务。

Even today, Bitcoin mining is a game for the big boys.

即使在今天，比特币挖矿也是大块头的游戏。

It was not an auspicious start to the new year for bitcoin investors.

对比特币投资者而言，新一年的开头并不吉利。