不久前,币安CEO赵长鹏在Linkedin上非常罕见地发表了一篇英文长文表示,尽管很多人对加密数字存在误解,认为会对政府产生负面的影响,但他认为加密货币和区块链终将成为主流,并且通过相关技术进行智能治理才是这个加密货币行业的关键。
他长文详述了加密货币对未来国家政府的六大意义,包括吸引资金、吸引人才、创造本地就业机会、政府税收增加、行业增长,及提升国家竞争力等。
下面是经陀螺财经编译的具体长文内容,略有修改。另外,文章结尾附有英文原文。
我们生活在不断地变化,没有暂停按钮。
现在存在一种误解,加密货币并不利于政府和国家,但我觉得事实却是恰恰相反。区块链技术和加密货币将是主流,这是不可避免的趋势,迟早会实现。从最新一期的《福布斯》显示,早期入局加密货币的那批人,有的已经成为了亿万富翁。对于政府来说也一样,早期使用区块链技术的国家政府,将成为明天的新金融领袖。
现在,机会就在我们面前!
事实上,越早使用加密货币,并且利用相关技术进行智能治理才是这个行业的关键。加密货币交易是整个生态系统的核心,而支持受监管的交易所在本地运营,也将会对当地经济带来积极的影响。
吸引资金
无论加密货币交易所设在哪里,他们总是能够吸引到加密项目和企业,继而能够吸引来自全球数千亿美元的资金涌入当地经济。加密货币投资是无国界的,好的ICO项目能够吸引世界各地的人前来投资。
人才的吸引力
加密货币的企业领导可以说是地球上最有想法的人了,他们是区块链技术和金融行业的早期探索者和开发者,不断地向前推进行业发展。另外,清晰、有利的法律法规,比如如何让新代币发行通过政府的审核,如何规范代币在交易所上线,还有具有竞争力的个人税收政策等,都是吸引区块链人才的关键。
创造当地就业机会
加密企业资金充足。2017年,从这个理事会加密企业筹集了57亿美元,比同年VC投资。仅在2018年1月的,加密企业已经筹集了超过20亿美元,并且这一趋势正在加速。这些企业必须雇佣人们发展他们的团队,创造就业机会在当地社区。
加密货币行业里的企业通常有充足的资金。2017年,加密货币行业里的企业通过ICO募集到了57亿美元的资金,超过了VC投资规模。仅在2018年1月份,加密货币企业已经募集了超过20亿美元的投资,这一趋势还在加速发展。这些企业必须聘请优秀的员工来拓大团队规模,为当地社区创造更多就业机会。
政府税收增加
与其他行业的公司不同的是,加密货币的初创公司往往能一开始就实现盈利,甚至有些盈利率非常之高。而这些利润可以给政府带来巨大的税收收入,通常每个企业都能缴纳税几百万美元。
行业增长
除了直接、实在、有形的收益外,加密货币行业还能带来很多无形、长期的收益,利益,而我相信这些收益远远超过上面说的可量化的收益。
随着更多加密企业在某一领域里蓬勃发展,他们将构建一个友好且先进的本地“加密文化”——这与旧金山的创业文化,纽约的金融文化类似——这种文化有助于塑造本地经济,成为世界领先的经济体。相比于那些较晚应用区块链技术的国家,早期应用者能够创造数万亿美元的收益。
比如币安带来的收益。币安第一季度利润达750万美元,第二季度利润高达20000万美元,另外,币安举行大型招聘,预计今年招收2000多名员工,未来会提供更多的就业岗位给当地就业市场。
提升国家竞争力
较早采用区块链技术,能够让一些正在发展金融市场的小国家获利。不过,因为加密货币整体规模较小,管理也更容易,因此并不会对全球金融造成太大干扰。
早期先使用区块链技术的小型国家,已经在发展金融市场过程中获得了收益。这是因为这些小国家应用的加密货币整体规模较小,不会破坏到现有的国际金融机构,且容易管理,但随着这些国家区块链技术的普及程度不断提高,一些拥有成熟金融市场的大国会感到竞争压力。所以,那些成熟的金融市场其实也应该尽早部署区块链技术,未雨绸缪。毕竟,自我创新总比被他人颠覆要好。
总之,无论是希望在下个世纪引领全球的国家,还是一个敢于担当的官员,我们希望你们都能敢于颠覆创新,成为具备前瞻性思维的未来领导者。
无论你是代表一个国家领导寻找下一个世纪,或负责人员,旨在让您的组织有关,我们希望你身体向前思考敢于破坏自己维护/成为明天的领导者。
英文版原文:
We live in constant change - there is no pause button.
While there is a misconception that cryptocurrency are bad for governments and countries, we believe the opposite is true. Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency will be mainstream. It’s inevitable. Just a matter of time. Early individual adopters have already become billionaires, as evident from the latest issue of Forbes. The same applies to governments. Early adopters will become new financial leaders of tomorrow. The opportunity is right in front of us, now!
Proper understanding, early adoption and intelligent governance of the cryptocurrency industry is key. Crypto exchanges are at the heart of the cryptocurrency industry. Supporting regulated exchanges to operate in a country will have significant positive effects on the local economy.
Attraction of Funds
Wherever big exchanges are, they will draw in other crypto projects and businesses. This leads to a huge influx of funds to the local economy, in hundreds of billions of dollars (USD), from all over the world. Crypto investments are borderless. Good ICOs are invested in by people from all over the world.
Attraction of Talent
Crypto businesses are lead by the sharpest minds on the planet. They are early adopters and developers of technology and financial industry. They push the envelope forward. Clear and favorable regulations on how ICOs are accepted by governments, listing on exchanges, and competitive personal tax policies are key to attracting these talents.
Local Job Creation
Crypto businesses are well funded. In 2017, crypto businesses raised $5.7 billion USD from ICOs, bigger than VC investments in the same year. In Jan of 2018 alone, crypto businesses already raised more than $2 billion USD, and the trend is accelerating. These businesses must hire people to grow their teams, creating job opportunities in the local community.
Tax Revenue for Governments
Unlike startups in other industries, cryptocurrency startups are often profitable from the beginning. Some are extremely profitable (see later). These profits generate significant tax revenue for the government, often in hundreds of millions of USD for each business.
Industry Growth
In addition to the direct tangible benefits, there are significant intangible and long term benefits, which we believe, far outweigh the immediately quantifiable ones mentioned above.
With more crypto business booming in one area, they will build a local culture that is crypto friendly and crypto advanced. This is similar to the startup culture in San Francisco, financial culture in New York, etc. With this culture built, it will help to shape the local economy, to be a world leading one. Early adopters could realize trillions of dollars in benefits compared to late adopters.
Benefits Binance can Bring
Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. In the first 3 months from inception, profits amounted to $7,500,000 USD. In the 2nd quarter, profits amounted to $200,000,000 USD. The 3rd quarter is still in progress, and is expected to have further growth. Any country that can attract Binance to open a branch in their location will receive a handsome tax income revenue.
Binance is a leading brand in the crypto industry. Wherever it lands, it will attracts other crypto businesses to follow. Binance has listed more than 200 coins, many of them are also looking to open branch offices around the world. They will follow.
Binance is aggressively recruiting, and is projected to recruit over 2000 employees this year alone, and even more next year. This will help grow the local job market.
Binance also have incubation and charity funds, further helping the local startup economy and welfare.
We are happy to work with forward thinking regulatory bodies, share our experiences and expertise, and help forge a leader in tomorrow’s blockchain-enabled world.
Countries
Initially, smaller countries with developing financial markets have the most to gain by adopting blockchain technologies. This should have less disruption to their existing institutions, as well as being easier to manage given a smaller size. As adoption in these countries increase, larger countries with established financial markets will feel the disruption. In this line of thinking, established financial markets should adopt blockchain technologies as early as possible too. As the saying goes, it is always better to disrupt yourself than waiting to be disrupted by others.
Whether you are representing a nation that is looking to lead for the next century, or a responsible officer that aims to keep your organization relevant, we hope you are that forward thinking body that is daring to disrupt yourself to maintain/become a leader of tomorrow.