許多人對數字貨幣比特幣態度鮮明，但真有人深入了解比特幣的發展方向嗎？在近日召開的《財富》金融頭腦風暴會議上，我們向七位首席執行官和一位首席運營官提出問題：“比特幣的未來會怎樣？”

高管們領導下的公司有些屬于加密貨幣領域，也有些并不相關，他們簡明扼要地回答了問題。我們整理了部分回復：

西聯匯款的首席執行官賀博睿正直面一些區塊鏈公司的挑戰，不少公司聲稱將搶占西聯匯款的轉賬業務：“區塊鏈當然是一種很有趣的處理模式。但我深信，貨幣必須由央行發行，必須由政府控制。我認為比特幣無法保持長期發展。”

數字化投資顧問公司Ellevest的首席執行官，也是美國銀行的前高管薩莉·克勞切克提出了令人耳目一新而又很直接的看法：“我不知道。誰覺得自己知道？”

摩根大通的前區塊鏈高管，目前經營區塊鏈初創企業Clovyr的艾博·巴爾代特表示：“（比特幣）技術是完全公開的，不斷有人學習和修改，但比特幣想解決的問題和人們想從中獲得的東西將一直存在下去。”

成立有段時間的加密貨幣支付服務公司Circle的首席執行官杰里米·阿萊爾表示：“作為一種私密且不受審查的非主權數字化價值儲存手段，比特幣的作用正在逐步提升。”

區塊鏈創意管理服務公司Civic的首席執行官維尼·林漢姆表示：“有些人認為比特幣是一種價值儲存手段，所有人都應該購買并持有，對沖全球政府崩潰的風險。其他人則認為，比特幣應該是用于點對點支付的加密貨幣。”

信用卡初創企業Brex的首席執行官亨里克·杜布格拉斯表示：“我認為，在貨幣匯率急劇波動的國家中，比特幣將是更好的價值儲存方式。”

專注加密貨幣領域的風險投資公司Digital Currency Group的首席執行官，已經投資數十家加密貨幣初創企業的巴里·西爾伯特表示：“比特幣與黃金有著完全相同的屬性……比特幣缺乏的是歷史，可能還有文化意義，但從可獲得性和實用性方面來說完全可以彌補缺陷。”

紐約證券交易所旗下的加密貨幣交易所Bakkt的首席運營官亞當·懷特說道：“以前有些事情只能在主權國家中可以看到，比如說貨幣，現在通過技術和軟件就能產生新貨幣，能以去中心化的方式實現。”（財富中文網）

譯者：艾倫

審校：夏林

Many people have strong opinions on Bitcoin, but does anyone really know where the digital currency is going? At Fortune’s recent Brainstorm Finance conference, we put the question “What’s the future of Bitcoin?” to seven CEOs—and one COO.

The executives, who lead companies both inside and outside the cryptocurrency space, offered up a series of snappy answers. We’ve compiled portions of their responses:

Hikmet Ersek, CEO of Western Union, who is confronting blockchain companies that claim to challenge his company’s money transfer business: “Blockchain is definitely an interesting processing model. Coins and currencies have to be shipped by central banks—that’s what I believe. It has to be controlled by governments. ... Bitcoin I don’t think has a long run.”

Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Ellevest and a former top executive at Bank of America, had a refreshingly direct take: “I have no idea. Anyone else think they know?”

Amber Baldet, former blockchain executive at JP Morgan who now runs the blockchain start-up Clovyr: “[Bitcoin] technology is out in the wild and is being learned from and modified and, in some incarnation, the problems that it solves and the things people need from it will stick around.”

Jeremy Allaire, CEO of long-established cryptocurrency payment service Circle, said: “The role of Bitcoin is growing as a non-sovereign digital store of value that is private and un-censorable.”

Vinny Lingham, CEO of blockchain idea management service Civic: “Some people see Bitcoin as a store of value—everyone should be buying it to hold it and prevent against a global meltdown of governments. Others people believe Bitcoin is meant to be a cryptocurrency for peer-to-peer payments.”

The CEO of buzzy credit card start Brex, Henrique Dubugras, said: “I believe it will be a better way to store value in countries where the currency is pretty volatile.”

Barry Silbert, the CEO of Digital Currency Group and investor in dozens of crypto startups: “Bitcoin has all the same attributes as gold ... What Bitcoin lacks in history and, arguably, cultural significance, it more than makes up in accessibility and utility.”

Adam White, COO of the New York Stock Exchange’s crypto venture, Bakkt, had this to say: “What we previously saw only in the domains of sovereign nation states—like money—now via technology and software, we can now do and accomplish in a decentralized way.”