SecondMarket將推出比特幣交易平臺
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????據《財富》（Fortune）獲得的消息，非上市公司股權交易平臺SecondMarket正拆分旗下的比特幣（Bitcoin）交易業務，組建一個獨立的公司，而新成立的公司最終將包括一個位于紐約的比特幣交易平臺。而此時有消息稱，由于技術故障導致用戶損失超過4億美元，全球最受歡迎的比特幣交易平臺之一Mount Gox或將面臨倒閉。 ????SecondMarket的舉措仍需要在公司下周的月度董事會會議上得到正式批準，但一切都已準備就緒。SecondMarket將為新公司提供： ????? 數字貨幣資產管理。其中包括比特幣投資信托基金，這是美國首款專門用于比特幣的投資工具。它與貨幣交易型開放式指數基金（ETF）有些類似，于去年秋天推出。 ????? 交易部門：SecondMarket有一支由11人組成的比特幣交易團隊，原本只是做市商，但在Gox瓦解之后，現在進行雙邊交易。 ????? 資金：SecondMarket將為新公司提供約2000萬美元的現金和比特幣資產。 ????可以說最重要的是交易平臺本身，上周五我在一篇文章中就已經暗示過。它的目標是減少比特幣的價格波動，方法是通過每日使用一次或兩次現貨價格（如黃金現貨價格），同時承擔結算公司的職能，每個交易日結束時為成員企業清算所有交易。成員也將在比特幣中投入足夠現金，以保持交易平臺的流動性。 ????SecondMarket首席執行官巴里?希爾伯特表示，他模仿的是早期的洲際交易所（ICE），他希望在3月底之前一系列創始成員到位（即“席位”模式）。預計這些成員將包括華爾街的銀行以及資金雄厚的比特幣初創企業（如Circle和Coinbase）。非會員企業或個人不得進行交易（至少起初如此），但可能會通過成員企業進行交易。 ????希爾伯特有望成為新公司的首席執行官，新公司的股東將是成員企業以及SecondMarket的現有支持者，如FirstMark Capital以及Social+Capital Partnership。 ????希爾伯特拒絕評論Mount Gox的發展狀況，Mount Gox對他新建的交易平臺而言既是挑戰也是機遇。挑戰在于，Gox的瓦解可能會導致即使最狂熱的比特幣愛好者都不再信任比特幣。萊恩?塞爾克斯是一位比特幣企業家，同時也是一位博客寫手。昨晚，他就Gox的情況寫了下面這段話： ????“我認為這會對比特幣的存在構成威脅。很多人非常擔憂，我本人也通過Coinbase出售了自己持有的所有比特幣。我是一個具有風險承受能力的投資者，但我認為這將對比特幣（作為一種貨幣以及一個新興產業）造成災難性的影響?！?/p> ????但是，像希爾伯特這樣成熟的企業家（他的SecondMarket為Facebook這樣的公司進行上市前股份交易并以因此聞名。）卻是一個機遇，能夠創立一個用戶可以信任的比特幣交易平臺。問題的關鍵在于監督。這個新發起的交易平臺目前尚未命名，將會實行自我監管。但希爾伯特認識到這個平臺的未來很可能取決于紐約金融服務部。紐約金融服務部最近剛剛舉行了有關比特幣的聽證會，而希爾伯特曾在聽證會上出席作證。（財富中文網） |
????SecondMarket is spinning out its Bitcoin activities into a stand-alone company that eventually will include a New York-based exchange for the cryptocurrency, Fortune has learned. The move comes just as news is breaking that one of the world's most popular Bitcoin exchanges, Mount Gox, may be shutting down after a hack that has cost its users more than $400 million. ????SecondMarket's move still needs to be formally approved during the company's monthly board meeting next week, but all of the pieces already are in place. The new company will receive from SecondMarket: ????? Digital currency asset management. This includes Bitcoin Investment Trust, the first-ever U.S. investment vehicle dedicated exclusively to Bitcoin. It sort of acts like a currency ETF, and was launched last fall. ????? Trading desk: SecondMarket has an 11-person Bitcoin trading team that originally was just a market-maker, but now is on both sides after Mt. Gox began disintegrating. ????? $$: SecondMarket will contribute approximately $20 million in cash and Bitcoin assets toward the new company. ????Arguably more important than all of this is the exchange, which I hinted at in a post last Friday. The goal would be to reduce Bitcoin price volatility, by using spot pricing once or twice per day (like gold spot pricing) and serving as a clearing company in which member firms would clear all transactions by day's end. Members also would keep enough cash in Bitcoin to keep the exchange liquid. ????SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert says that he's modeling it after the early days of The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), and that he hopes to have a set of founding members in place by the end of March (i.e., a "seat" model). These members are expected to include Wall Street banks and well-funded Bitcoin startups (think Circle and Coinbase). Non-member firms or individuals would not be allowed to trade -- at least at the outset -- but likely could do business via the member firms. ????Silbert is expected to serve as CEO of the new company, whose shareholders will be both member firms and also existing SecondMarket backers like FirstMark Capital and Social+Capital Partnership. ????He declined to comment on the developing situation at Mount Gox, which seems to represent both a challenge and an opportunity for his new exchange. A challenge because Gox's collapse could cause even the most ardent Bitcoin enthusiasts to distrust the cryptocurrency. Ryan Selkis, a Bitcoin entrepreneur and blogger, wrote the following last night about the Gox situation: ????"I do believe that this is one of the existential threats to bitcoin that many have feared and have personally sold all of my bitcoin holdings through Coinbase. I am a risk tolerant investor, but I believe this will be catastrophic for Bitcoin, both as a currency and as a fledgling industry." ????The opportunity, however, is for an established entrepreneur like Silbert -- whose SecondMarket has been known to trade pre-IPO shares in companies like Facebook -- to create an exchange that Bitcoin users can trust. Key to this may be oversight. The exchange, which does not yet have a name, would launch as a self-regulated organization. But Silbert recognizes that its ultimate future is likely to be under the auspices of the New York Department of Financial Services, which recently held a Bitcoin hearing at which Silbert testified. |
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