香港首家比特币实体店已于上周五正式开门营业。该店由一家香港虚拟货币交易平台ANX开设，主营比特币与港币的兑换业务。比特币交易也有望从虚拟网络走向实体店。
Hong Kong’s first Bitcoin real-estate shop was opened last Friday. The shop is run by a Hong Kong virtual currency trading platform, ANX, and is based on currency exchange with Hong Kong currency.
比特币交易从虚拟走向实体的意义重大，此前因为技术漏洞导致Mt.Gox关门，而技术漏洞也成为了比特币玩家的一个痛处。
Bitcoin transactions were significant in moving from virtual to physical, following the closure of Mt. Gox as a result of the technology gap, which has also been a pain to Bitcoin players.
据新华社报道，世界最大规模的比特币交易所运营商Mt.Gox2月28日宣布，因交易平台的85万个比特币被盗一空，公司已经向日本东京地方法院申请破产保护。Mt.Gox首席执行官马克·卡尔普勒当天在东京举行的新闻发布会上鞠躬致歉，称“比特币丢失是因为公司系统存在漏洞”。
According to Xinhua, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange operator, Mt. Gox, announced on 28 February that the company had applied for bankruptcy protection in the Tokyo District Court of Japan because of the theft of 850,000 bitcoins from the trading platform. Mark Karpler, Chief Executive Officer of Mt. Gox, apologized at a press conference in Tokyo that day, saying that “bitcoin was lost because of a bug in the company’s system”.
对于比特币买家而言，购买比特币首先需要把钱存入网上交易平台，再进行线上交易，这种模式容易遭到黑客的袭击。但开通实体店后，比特币玩家可以走入实体店，用现金直接购买比特币，然后将虚拟货币存入自己的电子钱包，整个交易过程可在数分钟之内完成。依据香港海关反洗钱的相关规定，到店内交易比特币的顾客将被要求提供身份证和住址证明。
For bitcoin buyers, the purchase of bitcoin first requires that the money be deposited into the online trading platform and then traded online, a model that is easily hacked. But when a real-estate shop is opened, bitcoin players can walk into the real-estate shop and buy bitcoin directly with cash, and then deposit the virtual currency in their own electronic wallet, and the entire transaction can be completed within a few minutes.
不过香港特区政府已经开始密切关注比特币在香港的使用情况，香港金融管理局将比特币定性为一种高风险的虚拟电子商品，而并非一种货币，被排除在其监管范围以外。因此，经营比特币相关业务并不需要取得政府牌照，情况类似于销售网络游戏点卡。
However, the HKSAR Government has begun to pay close attention to the use of Bitcoin in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Financial Services Authority has qualified Bitcoin as a high-risk virtual electronic commodity, rather than a currency, and has been excluded from its regulatory scope. Therefore, it is not necessary to obtain a government license for business related to Bitcoin, a situation similar to that of a sales network game card.
香港政府财经事务及库务局局长陈家强1月曾表示，比特币或其他虚拟货币在香港的发展尚未成为被广泛使用的支付媒介或电子货币，监管机构一直密切留意此类虚拟货币的发展，与世界各地包括内地的监管机构保持联络，确保比特币使用不会为香港的金融稳定造成不良影响。
Chen Jiaqiang, Director General of Finance and Finance of the Hong Kong Government, stated in January that the development of Bitcoin or other virtual currencies in Hong Kong is not yet a widely used payment medium or electronic currency and that regulators have been closely following the development of such virtual currencies, liaising with regulators around the world, including in the interior, to ensure that the use of Bitcoin does not adversely affect Hong Kong's financial stability.
陈家强向市民呼吁，由于比特币属高度投机性商品，市民要加倍小心，当考虑以比特币进行交易或投资时，必须考虑比特币的价格波动，以及没有实物、发行人或实体经济基础支持等因素，以提高风险意识。
Chen Jiaqiang appealed to the public to be more careful because of the highly speculative nature of Bitcoin and, when considering trading or investing in bitcoin, to take into account the price volatility of bitcoin and the lack of physical, issuer or physical economic base support in order to raise awareness of risk.
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