法国央行行长：投资比特币者自担风险

Investors who are diving into the bitcoin mania are doing so “entirely at their own risk”, the Banque de France head said on Friday, in the latest warning over the protection offered to investors lured in by the huge rally in prices.

法国央行行长周五表示，一头扎进比特币狂潮的投资者需要“自担全部风险”，这是有关被比特币价格大幅上涨所吸引的投资者无法得到保护的最新警告。

François Villeroy de Galhau told a conference in Beijing that bitcoin’s “value and extreme volatility have no economic basis, and they are nobody’s responsibility,” according to the central bank’s Twitter account.

弗朗索瓦•维勒鲁瓦•德加洛(François Villeroy de Galhau)在北京的一个会议上表示，比特币的“价值和极端波动性没有经济基础，任何人都不会为它们承担责任”。法国央行的Twitter账号发送了这样的消息。

“The Banque of France reminds those investing in bitcoin that they do so entirely at their own risk,” Mr Villeroy said.

维勒鲁瓦说：“法国央行提醒比特币投资者，他们这样做需要自担全部风险。”

Bitcoin has surged from about $1,000 per coin at the start of the year to as high as $11,395 this week, according to Reuters data. Over just the past few days, it has swung into and out of bull and bear markets, trading on Friday morning at $9,600.

根据路透社(Reuters)的数据本周，比特币的价格从今年初的1000美元涨至11395美元。就在过去几天，比特币的价格就经历大起大落，周五早上的交易价为9600美元。

Given the market-leading price returns, bitcoin has garnered increasing levels of attention from retail investors and professionals. Nasdaq, CME Group and CBOE Global Markets, all large exchange operators, are launching futures products that will let investors speculate and hedge on the price of bitcoin. In Asia, Shinhan Bank, South Korea’s biggest bank by assets, is planning to launch a bitcoin vault service.

由于比特币的价格回报率在市场上领先，越来越多的散户投资者和专业人士开始关注比特币。纳斯达克(Nasdaq)、芝加哥商品交易所集团(CME Group)和芝加哥期权交易所全球市场(Cboe Global Markets)这些大型交易所运营商均推出比特币期货产品，投资者可以对比特币的价格进行投机和对冲。在亚洲，韩国按资产计最大银行新韩银行(Shinhan Bank)正计划推出比特币保险库服务。

But amid all of the hype, many financial industry veterans remain wary. JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon famously called bitcoin a “fraud”, while BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said it is an “index of money laundering“.

在比特币被大肆炒作之际，许多金融业资深人士对此保持警惕。摩根大通(JPMorgan)首席执行官杰米•戴蒙(Jamie Dimon)宣称比特币(bitcoin)是一场“骗局”的话广为人知，而贝莱德(BlackRock)首席执行官拉里•芬克(Larry Fink)表示比特币是“洗钱指数”。