Name: 六分鐘學會用英文談論數位貨幣 (Learn to talk about digital currency in 6 minutes)
Uploaded: 2018-01-08T04:40:48.000Z
Duration: 6 min 34 s

Dan: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English.

丹：你好，歡迎來到6分鐘英語。

I'm Dan and joining me today is Neil. Hey Neil.

我是丹，今天加入我的是尼爾。嘿，尼爾。

Neil: Hello Dan. What's on the agenda today?

尼爾：你好，丹。今天的議程是什麼？

It's something that makes the world go round,

In fact, if we all stopped believing in it,

事實上，如果我們都不再相信它。

Neil: Currency is the money that's being used

Dan: Well, 'crypto' is a prefix meaning hidden or secret.

丹：嗯，"crypto "是一個前綴，意思是隱藏或祕密。

which means mysterious or difficult to understand.

Neil: Well I've certainly heard the name,

尼爾：嗯，我當然聽說過這個名字。

When was the Bitcoin crypto-currency first created?

比特幣加密貨幣最早是什麼時候誕生的？

Neil: Well, I think 2004 may have been a little early,

尼爾：嗯，我覺得2004年可能有點早。

Dan: We'll see if you're right later on in the show.

丹：等會兒節目中我們就知道你說的對不對了。

那麼......比特幣，你對它瞭解多少？

Neil: Well, I know it's a digital currency…

so presumably you can use it online to buy things?

所以大概可以用它在網上買東西？

First, it's not printed by governments or banks,

首先，它不是政府或銀行印的。

Neil: Legal tender means the official money that

尼爾：法定貨幣指的是官方的貨幣，即

所以，這意味著我們不能用它來。

Governments won't recognise it as an official currency,

各國政府不會承認它是一種官方貨幣。

Neil: Fluctuates means changes in level or amount.

尼爾：Fluctuates是指水準或數量的變化。

Dan: The second thing is that bitcoin is a

丹：第二件事是，比特幣是一個。

You can't carry a load of bitcoins around in your pocket!

你不能把一大堆比特幣裝在口袋裡!

Dan: Oh dear, Neil. Was that a money pun? Terrible!

哦，親愛的，尼爾。那是個雙關語嗎？太可怕了！

Neil: So if it's a digital only currency,

尼爾：所以，如果是隻用數字貨幣。

Can't I just say that I've got a million of them and

我就不能說我有一百萬個人，而且。

even though Bitcoin is not regulated by a bank

尼爾：哦，等等，我聽說過這件事。

This is when you use your computer to run calculations

You get rewarded for this 'work' by earning bitcoins.

你通過賺取比特幣來獲得這個 "工作 "的回報。

which means it's an easy way to earn money.

這意味著這是一種輕鬆的賺錢方式。

Neil: Wow! I'm going to start mining immediately!

Bitcoin's value has recently gone up quite a lot

事實上，芝加哥的一個證券交易所

has begun trading in Bitcoin futures contracts.

已經開始交易比特幣期貨合約。

a bet on where the currency will be a month from now,

which started the year worth under 1000 dollars

will continue to rise in value, albeit at a slower rate.

But at the big banks there's still plenty of scepticism

但在大銀行，還是有很多懷疑的聲音的

So, now big investors are betting on the value of Bitcoin

所以，現在大的投資者都在押注比特幣的價值。

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