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Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?

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Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset. The big question observers are asking is, why is ...

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Jwl
·2021-02-17
It’s a step to connect with the millennials, accessto the new age preferred currency and definitely not exhaustive to the existing portfolio offered byTesla or the Elon musk group
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2a68d646
·2021-02-16
why
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Karlmax
·2021-02-16
Btc is much stable...
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DesmondPoh
·2021-02-16
This can benefit expansion worldwide
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V1p3r32
·2021-02-16
[微笑]
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714iuhnim
·2021-02-15
[强]
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Favian
·2021-02-15
stonky
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s33b
·2021-02-14
Nice
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SafetyFirst
·2021-02-13
Should I buy bitcoin now?
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kkhuat
·2021-02-12
Great
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- GeneV:
  👍🏻
  2021-02-15
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457fe3dd
·2021-02-11
👍
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siaoa84
·2021-02-11
Seems to be for tax optimisation
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变胜龙
·2021-02-11
I should’ve bought Bitcoin months ago.. never toolate.. lol
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- JeremyKok:
  what is the price of bit coin now?
  2021-02-12
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- 变胜龙:
  Exxerpt:
  In the past week, it has turned into a flood, helping to push the price of Bitcoin to a record of $48,297 on Thursday.
  2021-02-12
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OldCat
·2021-02-11
Will other companies follow suit? We'll see
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- Leoneon8881:
  Ok
  2021-02-12
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WangZhai
·2021-02-11
Elon musk had always been a trend setter. He dare to do what others think as crazy... Some times the world need people like him to poke new holes...
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Nisnivlek
·2021-02-11
Bitcoin is the future
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- Leoneon8881:
  I only have a little bit coin
  2021-02-11
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- JeremyKok:
  bitcoin is volatile. the price is totally up to demand and supply. thus open to speculation. good if they are able to stabilize the price. then it is good to replace as mainstream transaction dollars.
  2021-02-12
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- Hummingbirdx:
  Bitcoin toward $100k! [财迷]
  2021-02-12
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Etann
·2021-02-11
🚀
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DreamyLucid
·2021-02-11
Time for SEC to conduct investigation on possible manipulation by Elon.
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Jazling
·2021-02-11
Pls comment
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- Jazling:
  Reply on my comment pls
  2021-02-11
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DanTEOHH
·2021-02-11
Btc to Mars!
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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":382706833,"gmtCreate":1613480930522,"gmtModify":1634553495677,"author":{"id":"3571619977128012","authorId":"3571619977128012","name":"2a68d646","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3571619977128012","authorIdStr":"3571619977128012"},"htmlText":"why","listText":"why","text":"why","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/382706833","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a 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further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":382227064,"gmtCreate":1613455584358,"gmtModify":1634553608575,"author":{"id":"3561633754837423","authorId":"3561633754837423","name":"Karlmax","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3561633754837423","authorIdStr":"3561633754837423"},"htmlText":"Btc&nbsp;is much stable...&nbsp;","listText":"Btc&nbsp;is much stable...&nbsp;","text":"Btc is much stable...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/382227064","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":382282273,"gmtCreate":1613452469692,"gmtModify":1634553619892,"author":{"id":"3555018550188293","authorId":"3555018550188293","name":"DesmondPoh","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/73350336aa39b0b06d62686c35ab1ee7","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3555018550188293","authorIdStr":"3555018550188293"},"htmlText":"This can benefit expansion worldwide&nbsp;","listText":"This can benefit expansion worldwide&nbsp;","text":"This can benefit expansion worldwide","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/382282273","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a 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further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":382697202,"gmtCreate":1613439434106,"gmtModify":1634553687060,"author":{"id":"3561501541551674","authorId":"3561501541551674","name":"V1p3r32","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3561501541551674","authorIdStr":"3561501541551674"},"htmlText":"[微笑]&nbsp;","listText":"[微笑]&nbsp;","text":"[微笑]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/382697202","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":382127321,"gmtCreate":1613392478463,"gmtModify":1634553779024,"author":{"id":"3576050686712426","authorId":"3576050686712426","name":"714iuhnim","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5a3d04562d805921b4e6ded1227cd44e","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3576050686712426","authorIdStr":"3576050686712426"},"htmlText":"[强]&nbsp;","listText":"[强]&nbsp;","text":"[强]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/382127321","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a 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further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":382996374,"gmtCreate":1613342755198,"gmtModify":1634553933579,"author":{"id":"3562815822807212","authorId":"3562815822807212","name":"Favian","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3c9db4d731960e756da0c07d6b32f34a","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3562815822807212","authorIdStr":"3562815822807212"},"htmlText":"stonky","listText":"stonky","text":"stonky","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/382996374","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":386734091,"gmtCreate":1613272341613,"gmtModify":1613272341613,"author":{"id":"3564224494282146","authorId":"3564224494282146","name":"s33b","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b3484419756587d83eb5379844c79371","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3564224494282146","authorIdStr":"3564224494282146"},"htmlText":"Nice&nbsp;","listText":"Nice&nbsp;","text":"Nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/386734091","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":386224959,"gmtCreate":1613188080971,"gmtModify":1634554205005,"author":{"id":"3570965583958757","authorId":"3570965583958757","name":"SafetyFirst","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a6356c1a4c82b1755621f3b2631a6784","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3570965583958757","authorIdStr":"3570965583958757"},"htmlText":"Should I buy bitcoin now?","listText":"Should I buy bitcoin now?","text":"Should I buy bitcoin now?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/386224959","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a 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further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388734279,"gmtCreate":1613094973891,"gmtModify":1634554551307,"author":{"id":"3572058798803024","authorId":"3572058798803024","name":"kkhuat","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6fe57f853f58e51571850f49ab6998fb","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3572058798803024","authorIdStr":"3572058798803024"},"htmlText":"Great","listText":"Great","text":"Great","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388734279","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a 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further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3573479,"gmtCreate":1613372523622,"gmtModify":1635764233491,"authorId":3570741525676370,"author":{"id":3570741525676370,"idStr":"3570741525676370","authorId":3570741525676370,"name":"GeneV","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f07571419f8558c92b400555a5813b59","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":388734279,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"👍🏻","text":"👍🏻","html":"👍🏻"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388610850,"gmtCreate":1613053686070,"gmtModify":1703768860842,"author":{"id":"3566960557485103","authorId":"3566960557485103","name":"457fe3dd","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3566960557485103","authorIdStr":"3566960557485103"},"htmlText":"👍","listText":"👍","text":"👍","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388610850","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388853598,"gmtCreate":1613050260214,"gmtModify":1703768784366,"author":{"id":"3554885086267037","authorId":"3554885086267037","name":"siaoa84","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e4d77dcc96f483ed8e528a728bbb69eb","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3554885086267037","authorIdStr":"3554885086267037"},"htmlText":"Seems to be for tax optimisation&nbsp;","listText":"Seems to be for tax optimisation&nbsp;","text":"Seems to be for tax optimisation","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388853598","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388382936,"gmtCreate":1613023445725,"gmtModify":1703768478134,"author":{"id":"3571824590644579","authorId":"3571824590644579","name":"变胜龙","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d2ef1c48c2383094236150c4f3fec1c","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3571824590644579","authorIdStr":"3571824590644579"},"htmlText":"I should’ve bought Bitcoin months ago.. never toolate.. lol","listText":"I should’ve bought Bitcoin months ago.. never toolate.. lol","text":"I should’ve bought Bitcoin months ago.. never toolate.. lol","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388382936","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3554664,"gmtCreate":1613083990109,"gmtModify":1635764880110,"authorId":3567307840510045,"author":{"id":3567307840510045,"idStr":"3567307840510045","authorId":3567307840510045,"name":"JeremyKok","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/01b03a485f83b6b2615fad8ac9b87bf4","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":388382936,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"what is the price of bit coin now?","text":"what is the price of bit coin now?","html":"what is the price of bit coin now?"},{"id":3556768,"gmtCreate":1613103738300,"gmtModify":1635764821268,"authorId":3571824590644579,"author":{"id":3571824590644579,"idStr":"3571824590644579","authorId":3571824590644579,"name":"变胜龙","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4d2ef1c48c2383094236150c4f3fec1c","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":388382936,"type":1,"supId":3554664,"prevId":0,"content":"Exxerpt:\n In the past week, it has turned into a flood, helping to push the price of Bitcoin to a record of $48,297 on Thursday.","text":"Exxerpt:\n In the past week, it has turned into a flood, helping to push the price of Bitcoin to a record of $48,297 on Thursday.","html":"Exxerpt:\n In the past week, it has turned into a flood, helping to push the price of Bitcoin to a record of $48,297 on Thursday."}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388319400,"gmtCreate":1613020806100,"gmtModify":1703768457931,"author":{"id":"3573733606753390","authorId":"3573733606753390","name":"OldCat","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3573733606753390","authorIdStr":"3573733606753390"},"htmlText":"Will other companies follow suit? We'll see","listText":"Will other companies follow suit? We'll see","text":"Will other companies follow suit? We'll see","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388319400","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a 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further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3556863,"gmtCreate":1613104785162,"gmtModify":1635764815698,"authorId":3556969222862067,"author":{"id":3556969222862067,"idStr":"3556969222862067","authorId":3556969222862067,"name":"Leoneon8881","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f538101c460b5f022a9dba30ce236442","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":388319400,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388333397,"gmtCreate":1613019581319,"gmtModify":1703768442664,"author":{"id":"3561980891009703","authorId":"3561980891009703","name":"WangZhai","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bc2671102b0ba42d45bf457532bb6784","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3561980891009703","authorIdStr":"3561980891009703"},"htmlText":"Elon musk had always been a trend setter. 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Some times the world need people like him to poke new holes...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388333397","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388300723,"gmtCreate":1613017102162,"gmtModify":1703768411935,"author":{"id":"3571992769878529","authorId":"3571992769878529","name":"Nisnivlek","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/da7e63ae933a3a94693af3ca8b29c972","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3571992769878529","authorIdStr":"3571992769878529"},"htmlText":"Bitcoin is the future","listText":"Bitcoin is the future","text":"Bitcoin is the future","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388300723","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3546611,"gmtCreate":1613018777072,"gmtModify":1635765060370,"authorId":3556969222862067,"author":{"id":3556969222862067,"idStr":"3556969222862067","authorId":3556969222862067,"name":"Leoneon8881","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f538101c460b5f022a9dba30ce236442","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":388300723,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"I only have a little bit coin","text":"I only have a little bit coin","html":"I only have a little bit coin"},{"id":3554658,"gmtCreate":1613083923009,"gmtModify":1635764880330,"authorId":3567307840510045,"author":{"id":3567307840510045,"idStr":"3567307840510045","authorId":3567307840510045,"name":"JeremyKok","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/01b03a485f83b6b2615fad8ac9b87bf4","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":388300723,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"bitcoin is volatile. the price is totally up to demand and supply. thus open to speculation. good if they are able to stabilize the price. then it is good to replace as mainstream transaction dollars.","text":"bitcoin is volatile. the price is totally up to demand and supply. thus open to speculation. good if they are able to stabilize the price. then it is good to replace as mainstream transaction dollars.","html":"bitcoin is volatile. the price is totally up to demand and supply. thus open to speculation. good if they are able to stabilize the price. then it is good to replace as mainstream transaction dollars."},{"id":3556126,"gmtCreate":1613097235907,"gmtModify":1635764840970,"authorId":3567304065816260,"author":{"id":3567304065816260,"idStr":"3567304065816260","authorId":3567304065816260,"name":"Hummingbirdx","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b2d8698b44a47ad1c03956599c95db85","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":388300723,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Bitcoin toward $100k! 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[财迷]"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388964113,"gmtCreate":1613011976632,"gmtModify":1703768358546,"author":{"id":"3563162993079910","authorId":"3563162993079910","name":"Etann","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fa9b38d01e92cd5b5a37cae6de304db","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3563162993079910","authorIdStr":"3563162993079910"},"htmlText":"🚀","listText":"🚀","text":"🚀","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388964113","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388969446,"gmtCreate":1613011331885,"gmtModify":1703768349398,"author":{"id":"3569320299762451","authorId":"3569320299762451","name":"DreamyLucid","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1cf264035a291f063238239f9c858dad","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3569320299762451","authorIdStr":"3569320299762451"},"htmlText":"Time for SEC to conduct investigation on possible manipulation by Elon.&nbsp;","listText":"Time for SEC to conduct investigation on possible manipulation by Elon.&nbsp;","text":"Time for SEC to conduct investigation on possible manipulation by Elon.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388969446","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a 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further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388988016,"gmtCreate":1613010602735,"gmtModify":1703768337565,"author":{"id":"3566821013640470","authorId":"3566821013640470","name":"Jazling","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/85e0a83573d9307f57fca9b2baed72af","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3566821013640470","authorIdStr":"3566821013640470"},"htmlText":"Pls comment","listText":"Pls comment","text":"Pls comment","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388988016","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"比特币ETF-Grayscale"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-did-tesla-buy-bitcoin-11612902220?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"2110098829","content_text":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.\nThe big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?\nMonday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.\nThe move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":3545707,"gmtCreate":1613010618556,"gmtModify":1635765089175,"authorId":3566821013640470,"author":{"id":3566821013640470,"idStr":"3566821013640470","authorId":3566821013640470,"name":"Jazling","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/85e0a83573d9307f57fca9b2baed72af","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":388988016,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Reply on my comment pls","text":"Reply on my comment pls","html":"Reply on my comment pls"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":388902666,"gmtCreate":1613007233455,"gmtModify":1703768285008,"author":{"id":"3574587439900861","authorId":"3574587439900861","name":"DanTEOHH","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7d9f3e9c4cc1d068ea658b0e69247a35","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574587439900861","authorIdStr":"3574587439900861"},"htmlText":"Btc to Mars!","listText":"Btc to Mars!","text":"Btc to Mars!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/388902666","repostId":2110098829,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2110098829","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1612942404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2110098829?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-02-10 15:33","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Why did Tesla buy bitcoin?<blockquote>特斯拉为什么要收购比特币？</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2110098829","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?Monday, electric-car maker Tesla said in a public filing that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirm","content":"Tesla Inc. has become the latest major corporation to make an investment in bitcoin, underscoring the increasing acceptability of the digital asset.<blockquote>特斯拉公司成为最新一家投资比特币的大公司，突显出这种数字资产的接受度越来越高。</blockquote> The big question observers are asking is, why is the Elon Musk-run company doing this?<blockquote>观察家们问的一个大问题是，埃隆·马斯克经营的公司为什么要这样做？</blockquote> Monday, electric-car maker&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;said in&nbsp;a&nbsp;public filing&nbsp;that it purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin&nbsp;and that it expects to begin accepting payment in the cryptocurrency for its products in the future.<blockquote>周一，电动汽车制造商特斯拉在一份公开文件中表示，它购买了15亿美元的比特币，并预计未来将开始接受其产品的加密货币支付。</blockquote> The move by Tesla to invest in bitcoins was seen as further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.<blockquote>特斯拉投资比特币的举动被视为进一步证实了这种新兴资产的合法性，这种资产直到大约12年前才存在。</blockquote> However, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some&nbsp;corporate finance professionals&nbsp;as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.<blockquote>然而，比特币被视为一种波动性资产，容易出现价格剧烈波动，一些企业财务专业人士将特斯拉周一的声明描述为以货币或商品形式给汽车制造商的资产负债表增加了不必要的风险，取决于您如何对比特币进行分类。</blockquote> While it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk &amp; Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.<blockquote>虽然目前尚不清楚为什么Musk&amp;Co.选择让该公司面临拥有比特币的可能风险，但以下是这家革命性公司可能与加密货币人群结盟的一些原因。</blockquote> Diversification<blockquote>多元化</blockquote> Tesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.<blockquote>特斯拉在向其监管机构美国证券交易委员会提交的声明中明确表示，它将比特币视为实现现金和现金等价物持有多元化的机会。</blockquote> Corporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.<blockquote>公司通常持有多余的现金和/或现金等价物，如国库券或商业票据，以提供运营流动性并在限制风险的同时产生回报。</blockquote> Tesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”<blockquote>特斯拉写道，“我们更新了投资政策，为我们提供了更大的灵活性，以进一步实现现金回报的多元化和最大化，而这并不是维持充足运营流动性所必需的。”</blockquote> The move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.<blockquote>特斯拉承认，此举并非没有风险，因为比特币的价格可能会暴跌。</blockquote> “If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.<blockquote>该公司承认：“如果我们持有数字资产，其价值相对于我们的购买价格下降，我们的财务状况可能会受到损害。”</blockquote> But a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.<blockquote>但今年迄今已飙升62%的单一比特币，如果看涨势头继续增强，很容易达到六位数的价值，这将使马斯克看起来很聪明。</blockquote> Publicity stunt?<blockquote>宣传噱头？</blockquote> “Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.<blockquote>Oanda高级市场分析师Craig Erlam在周二的一份研究报告中写道：“值得庆幸的是，Elon Musk周一再次确保没有人会感到无聊，他出人意料地宣布特斯拉将收购比特币并接受它们作为车辆付款。”</blockquote> The analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.<blockquote>这位分析师将此举称为“宣传噱头”，每个人都在谈论这一举措，但有多种思考方式。</blockquote> Brand management<blockquote>品牌管理</blockquote> Bitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.<blockquote>比特币与一群打破传统的创始人有联系，他们试图打破支付和法定货币的模式。这就是2009年中本聪(Satoshi Nakamoto)将密码写入代码背后的想法。</blockquote> Those rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.<blockquote>这些叛逆的想法在某种程度上符合马斯克自己的颠覆议程。特斯拉正在一个迄今为止由化石燃料驱动的汽车主导的世界中制造电动汽车。</blockquote> Moreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.<blockquote>此外，特斯拉的直接面向客户的销售模式也被视为引领潮流，因为许多公司通过非附属经销商销售汽车。</blockquote> Bitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.<blockquote>比特币作为一个去中心化资产的形象，不受任何一个机构的控制，也符合特斯拉及其领导人马斯克的形象。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33c354045da9bf1b0b8bbe93d0eb9e43\" tg-width=\"947\" tg-height=\"673\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote></blockquote> The future of $<blockquote>$的未来</blockquote> Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.<blockquote>特斯拉在比特币的15亿美元投资也可能是对美元自二战以来作为世界储备货币的霸权的简单对冲。</blockquote> Bitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.<blockquote>对于许多支持者来说，比特币或类似的东西代表了支付系统的未来，即使由于当前的波动性，它目前还不是一种有效的交换手段。</blockquote> “Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in&nbsp;bitcoin&nbsp;and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.<blockquote>多资产投资平台eToro的加密资产分析师Simon Peters在电子邮件评论中写道：“特斯拉昨天投资比特币并开始接受其作为自己产品的付款，这确实起到了推动作用。”</blockquote> The eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc.&nbsp;and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.<blockquote>这位eToro分析师表示，有未经证实的传言称科技巨头苹果公司和谷歌母公司Alphabet公司将其与自己的支付系统联系起来。</blockquote> Musk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.<blockquote>马斯克被视为通过SpaceX与电动汽车、电池和太空探索相关的创新者，但他早期的投资之一是支付领域。</blockquote> Writing on the wall<blockquote>写在墙上</blockquote> The&nbsp;Wall Street Journal notes&nbsp;that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings&nbsp;about 20 years ago.<blockquote>《华尔街日报》指出，这位特斯拉首席执行官将出售互联网业务获得的2200万美元中的大部分投资于一家新初创公司X.com，该公司大约20年前成为PayPal控股公司。</blockquote> PayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal&nbsp;back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.<blockquote>PayPal目前是比特币革命的先锋之一。PayPal早在11月就向所有美国客户开放了其加密货币平台，此前该平台进行了较窄的推广。</blockquote> Moreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in&nbsp;a letter to clients&nbsp;earlier this month&nbsp;published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.<blockquote>此外，包括Stanley Druckenmiller和Paul Tudor Jones在内的几位知名华尔街投资者已经接受了比特币。Miller Value Partners创始人、著名投资者Bill Miller本月早些时候在该公司网站上发表的一封致客户的信中重申了他对比特币的看涨前景。</blockquote> In other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.<blockquote>换句话说，特斯拉和马斯克可能是涉足加密货币领域最大的公司之一，但越来越多的投资者开始将不稳定的数字账本支持的加密货币视为真正的资产。</blockquote> “Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.<blockquote>JMP Securities分析师Devin Ryan在周一的研究报告中写道：“随着特斯拉的宣布，企业采用率又向前迈出了一大步。”</blockquote> The researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”<blockquote>该研究人员和分析师同事Brian McKenna指出，他们“相信围绕比特币构建的‘网络效应’正在将更广泛的加密资产类别推向主流，并且价值数千亿美元的基础设施支持该资产类别，我们认为其成功中已经存在的大量（且不断增长的）既得利益对该行业有利。”</blockquote> On Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&amp;P 500&nbsp;and the Nasdaq Composite&nbsp;indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.<blockquote>周二，比特币触及48,000美元左右的历史新高，随后回落，道琼斯工业平均指数、标普500和纳斯达克综合指数当天交易相对不温不火。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a 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further confirmation of the legitimacy of the nascent asset that didn’t exist until about 12 years ago.\nHowever, bitcoin is seen as a volatile asset that is prone to sharp price volatility and Monday’s announcement by Tesla was described by some corporate finance professionals as an unnecessary addition of risk to the vehicle maker’s balance sheet in the form of currency or a commodity, depending on how you classify bitcoin.\nWhile it’s not clear, at this point, why Musk & Co. have opted to expose the company to the possible risk of owning bitcoin, here are a few reasons why the revolutionary company may have aligned itself with the crypto crowd.\nDiversification\nTesla made it clear in its statement filed with its regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission that it sees bitcoin as a chance to diversify its cash and cash-equivalent holdings.\nCorporations usually hold excess cash and/or cash-equivalents, like Treasury bills or commercial paper on their books to provide operational liquidity and generate returns while limiting risks.\nTesla wrote, “we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.”\nThe move isn’t without risk, Tesla acknowledges as the price of bitcoin could slump.\n“If we hold digital assets and their values decrease relative to our purchase prices, our financial condition may be harmed,” the company acknowledges.\nBut a single bitcoin, which has soared 62% so far this year, could easily be headed for a six-digit value if bullish momentum continues to build, which would make Musk look smart.\nPublicity stunt?\n“Thankfully, Elon Musk on Monday once again ensured no one would be bored, with the unexpected announcement that Tesla will buy bitcoin and accept them as payment for vehicles,” writes Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda, in a Tuesday research note.\nThe analyst referred to the move as a “publicity stunt,” a move that everbody is talking about, but there are a number of ways to think about it.\nBrand management\nBitcoin is associated with a group of iconoclastic founders who were attempting to break the mold on payments and fiat money. That was the idea behind cryptos being written into code back in 2009 by a person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto.\nThose rebellious notions align somewhat with Musk’s own agenda of disruption. Tesla is making electric-powered vehicles in a world that has thus far been dominated by fossil-fuel driven cars.\nMoreover, Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model also is viewed as trendsetting, since many companies sell their cars through unaffiliated dealerships.\nBitcoin’s image as a decentralized asset, not controlled by any one body, also fits with Tesla’s image and that of its leader Musk.\n\nThe future of $\nTesla’s $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin could also be a simple hedge against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency since World War Two.\nBitcoin, or something like it, represents the future of payment systems to many supporters, even if it isn’t currently an effective means of exchange due to its current volatility.\n“Yesterday’s move by Tesla to invest in bitcoin and start accepting it as payment for its own products really moved the needle,” wrote Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst at multiasset investment platform eToro, in emailed comments.\nThe eToro analyst said that there are unconfirmed talks about technology behemoths Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc.,linking it to their own payment systems.\nMusk is viewed as an innovator tied to electric vehicles, batteries and space exploration via SpaceX, but one of his early ventures was in payments.\nWriting on the wall\nThe Wall Street Journal notes that, the Tesla CEO invested most of the $22 million he earned from the sale of an internet business into a new startup, X.com, which became PayPal Holdings about 20 years ago.\nPayPal currently is among the vanguard of bitcoin revolution. PayPal back in November opened up its cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. customers after conducting a more narrow rollout.\nMoreover, several high-profile Wall Street investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones, have embraced bitcoin. Famed investor Bill Miller, founder of Miller Value Partners, in a letter to clients earlier this month published on the firm’s website, reaffirmed his bullish outlook on bitcoin.\nIn other words, Tesla and Musk may be among the biggest to wade into the crypto pool, but a growing cadre of investors are starting to view the volatile digital-ledger-backed cryptos as a bona fide asset.\n“Corporate adoption takes another leap forward with Tesla announcement,” writes Devin Ryan, analyst at JMP Securities in a Monday research note.\nThe researcher, along with fellow analyst Brian McKenna, noted they “believe the building ‘network effect’ around bitcoin is moving the broader crypto asset class into the mainstream, and with many hundreds of billions of dollars of value in infrastructure supporting the asset class, we see the already substantial (and growing) vested interest in its success as bullish for the industry.”\nOn Tuesday, bitcoin touched a record high around $48,000 before pulling back, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes have seen relatively tepid trade on the day.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9,"GBTC":0.9,"BTCmain":0.9,"XBTmain":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":164,"commentSize":105,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":2,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"isCrawlerRequest":true}