比尔盖茨：加密货币是“直接造成死亡的罕见技术”
微软创始人比尔盖茨说，加密货币以“相当直接的方式”杀害人们。
微软创始人比尔盖茨说，加密货币正在以“相当直接的方式”杀死人们。
他指的是像比特币这样的数字货币用于购买像合成阿片类药物芬太尼这样的药。
在新闻网站Reddit上的“问我任何问题”的环节中，他表示，数字货币的匿名意味着它们与恐怖主义资金和洗钱有关。
有人批评他，说他对技术不了解。
在被一位用户问及他对这项技术的看法时，盖茨先生回答道：“加密货币的主要特点是他们的匿名性，我认为这不是一件好事，政府能够发现洗钱和逃税以及恐怖分子资金是一件好事。
“现在，加密货币被用于购买芬太尼和其他药物，所以这是一种罕见的技术，已经以相当直接的方式导致死亡。我认为围绕ICO [初始硬币产品]和加密货币的投机浪潮对于有长期计划的人来说是超级有风险的。”
老牌投资者沃伦-巴菲特之前曾表示，投机加密货币狂潮“将会陷入一个糟糕的境地”。
盖茨先生对比特币并不总是那么冷嘲热讽。 2014年，在彭博电视台的采访中，他表示比特币“比货币更好”。
他在Reddit上对该问题不看好的反应没有被所有参与辩论的人接受，有些人认为他企图影响市场而责备他的回复。其他人则建议他需要再看看比特币白皮书。
在问题涵盖广泛的Reddit聊天中，盖茨先生告诉听众，他的前三个目标是“减少儿童死亡和营养不良并终止小儿麻痹症”。
盖茨先生是比尔和梅林达盖茨基金会的联席主席，每年在教育和健康项目上花费数十亿美元。
该基金会还赞助肯尼亚商人开发区块链技术 - 支持加密技术。
微软还希望整合基于区块链的技术来验证数字身份。
加密货币价值的上涨促使世界各国政府更加密切关注其对经济和公民的影响。
虽然其背后的技术经常被人称赞，但人们担心它会破坏经济以及与网络犯罪和洗钱的联系。
英国财政部目前正在调查这些货币的影响。
英文原文如下：
Crypto-currencies are killing people in a "fairly direct way", Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said.
He was referring to the way digital currencies like Bitcoin are used to buy drugs like synthetic opioid fentanyl.
In an "ask me anything" session on news website Reddit, he said that the anonymity of digital currencies meant they were linked to terrorist funding and money laundering.
Some criticised him, saying he was ill-informed about the technology.
Asked by one user for his opinion on the technology, Mr Gates replied: "The main feature of crypto-currencies is their anonymity. I don’t think this is a good thing. The government’s ability to find money laundering and tax evasion and terrorist funding is a good thing.
"Right now, crypto-currencies are used for buying fentanyl and other drugs so it is a rare technology that has caused deaths in a fairly direct way. I think the speculative wave around ICOs [initial coin offerings] and crypto-currencies is super risky for those who go long."
Veteran investor Warren Buffet has previously said that the speculative crypto-currency craze "will come to a bad end".
Mr Gates has not always been so cynical about Bitcoin. In 2014, in an interview on Bloomberg TV, he said that Bitcoin "was better than currency".
His less than enthusiastic response on Reddit did not go down well with all those participating in the debate, with some reproaching him for what they felt was an attempt to influence the market. Others suggested that he needed to look again at the Bitcoin white paper.
In the wide-ranging Reddit chat, Mr Gates told the audience that his top three goals were "reducing both childhood death and malnutrition and ending polio".
Mr Gates is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which spends billions each year on education and health projects.
The foundation has also sponsored the development of blockchain - the technology that underpins crypto-currenices - for merchants in Kenya.
Microsoft is also looking to integrate blockchain-based technology for verifying digital identity.
The rise in value of crypto-currency has prompted governments around the world to look more closely at its impact on economies and citizens.
While the technology underlying it is often praised, there are concerns about how it could disrupt the economy as well as its links to cyber-crime and money laundering.
the UK’s Treasury Committee is currently investigating the impact of such currencies.
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