Circle创始人:为何我对加密货币比以往任何时候都更乐观?

Odaily星球日报Publicado em 2024-06-20Última atualização em 2024-06-20

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加密货币代表了互联网下一个合乎逻辑的基础设施层。

原文作者:Jeremy Allair

原文编译:深潮 TechFlow

我比以往任何时候都更看好加密货币。@Circle 我已经建造了超过 11 年,我从未像现在这样乐观过。我还相信,绝大多数人对正在发生的事情的理解是极其狭隘和有限的。 这也是看涨的原因。

这篇文章解释了我为何如此乐观。

我的观点来自于对过去约 35 年互联网技术应用生命周期的密切观察。

我们看到,开放网络、开放协议和开放软件不断涌现,互联网上的基础设施层出不穷,加深了互联网对社会和经济的效用。 每一次浪潮都改变了主要行业,提高了人们的生活水平,颠覆或改变了单位经济,开辟了全新的可能性。

实际上,开放知识产权对这场正在进行的互联网革命的集体贡献实际上似乎在加速,而加密货币似乎正站在风口浪尖上,以无比强大的新方式推动社会和经济向前发展。

11 年多前,当 Sean 和我思考这个领域时,我们很清楚地意识到,加密货币代表了互联网下一个合乎逻辑的基础设施层。 互联网基础设施已经实现了无摩擦、近乎自由的数据移动,以及在全球网络上无缝连接和部署软件和硬件的能力,但它显然还在为自身的成功和重量而苦苦挣扎。

互联网缺乏信任层,没有信任层,它为世界提供的效用就会受到限制。 没有办法获得完全可信的数据、交易或计算,这导致对超集中实体(企业和政府)的依赖不断加深。与此同时,互联网在社会中的作用也在不断扩大,互联网在社会和经济组织方式中发挥越来越大作用的能力显而易见。

就在这个时候,比特币横空出世,一大批敏锐的技术专家开始更深入地思考如何将加密货币的基本原理扩展到提供更广泛的互联网基础设施,从而成为社会和经济的基础。 在公共区块链上发行、以智能合约为中介的数字代币可以在全球范围内释放出一个可信的环境,这将成为社会和经济的几乎所有构建模块如何成为互联网原生模块的基础。

这就是吸引我进入这个领域的原因。

我当时清楚地看到,这一切将会展开,这些新的去中心化互联网计算机将实现规模化,并最终迎来变革浪潮,其规模将远远超过我们从信息和通信互联网中看到的各种变革。

在 2013 年,这些想法被认为是疯狂的。 任何与比特币或加密货币有关的想法都被视为高度边缘化的,很可能是非法的,而且对大多数技术专家来说,这基本上是一种无趣的技术发展。 当时,这项技术极其有限、缓慢、昂贵、操作复杂。

银行、会计和审计公司、保险公司、监管机构这些信托机构,对这一领域的任何事情都抱有极大的敌意和恐惧。媒体的主要关注点是暗网市场、丝绸之路和温克艾沃斯双胞胎的 BTC 购买。

但是,如果你真正关注大多数年轻且极富创造力的建设者在想什么、做什么,你就会清楚地看到,更大的愿景正在展开,尽管具体的时间并不明确。

对于我们这些从 2012 年起就在这个领域开展建设和工作的人来说(很多人甚至从更早的时候就开始了!),我们现在所处的位置完全不同寻常。 而且,正如我经常说的那样,鉴于我们在过去十年中取得的巨大进步,我们确实只处于加密货币在世界上应用的早期阶段,这让我今天非常看好加密货币。

我们走了多远?我们所取得的成就和技术进步不胜枚举。

公共区块链基础设施已经发展到第三代,提供全球规模的网络计算机,可以处理具有可信数据、交易和计算的大规模应用。全球有数十个主要的区块链网络生态系统,这些生态系统正在不断改进和创新这些网络的基本技术,包括数据可用性、计算、安全性、隐私、交易吞吐量等。

我们正处于区块链网络的早期宽带阶段。 猜猜接下来会发生什么?

我们正在看到基于 ZK 技术以及现在的 FHE 技术在安全性、隐私性和可扩展性方面取得的突破。 我们可以看到一个加密计算成为最重要应用基础的世界。全世界有数以万计的初创公司正在这种基础设施的基础上进行建设。

数字资产已成为新兴全球金融体系的一部分,几乎世界上所有主要国家的政府都为数字资产的发行、使用和交易制定了明确的规则。

比特币本身已成为全球最大、最重要的另类投资资产之一。

全球最大的资产管理公司都在提供基于区块链技术的产品和服务,并提供对底层数字商品的投资。

随着加密货币对国家竞争力的重要性日益明显,加密货币已成为一个全球性的政治问题。 世界各国政府都在争先恐后地竞相解决这一问题,确保这一领域的创新既是负责任的,也是促进创新的。

我们看到,产品用户体验以前所未有的方式释放了消费者规模的使用,让我们更清晰地看到未来几年数十亿用户的使用情况。

随着公有链和稳定币的优势逐渐显现,世界上大多数最大的支付公司都在积极使用这项技术,并探索如何扩大其使用范围。

稳定币在规模和使用上都有了爆炸性的发展,它是加密货币最重要的杀手级应用,在世界上释放了数字美元,将更多的人带入了未来的链上经济,并开始实现为无银行账户的人提供银行服务的承诺,降低汇款成本,实现更无缝的跨境商务。

稳定币正在成为世界上几乎所有主要司法管辖区合法定义和接受的数字货币形式。 到 2025 年底,稳定币将成为几乎所有地方的「合法电子货币」,这将使稳定币在 10 亿美元以上的电子货币市场中占据越来越大的份额。

构建、部署和运行区块链应用程序的基础设施已取得巨大进步,企业级产品和服务可帮助使用这些网络,托管基础设施可扩展至最终用户控制的自我托管,以及世界上最大的银行和资产管理公司可以依赖的基础设施。

开发者工具、SDK 和知识正在加速扩散, 越来越多的人成为「区块链能手」。大型消费规模公司正在推出连接公有链的在线应用程序,并将数字代币用于各种用例。各国政府正在投资区块链基础设施、生态系统开发,并通过法律激励企业在本地区开展建设。

我们每周都能看到越来越多令人兴奋的技术应用,从支付、社交、游戏、票务到企业用例。我还可以继续说下去,但与十年前相比,现在这一切的规模确实令人震惊。 与之前的开放式互联网基础设施浪潮一样,这股浪潮也在不断壮大,而且每天、每周都在不断加强。而且,就像我之前说的,我们仍处于加密货币应用的早期阶段,其未来的发展潜力巨大,市场价值和价格有望显著上升。

当数字代币成为全世界广泛理解和合法使用的激励、治理和记录形式时,这将会是什么样子?

当越来越多的金融和商业构建由公有链基础设施上的智能合约执行和中介时,会是什么样子?

当第四代区块链网络支持数十亿用户和数百万应用程序时,会是什么样子?

当链上组织在法律上被定义并爆炸性增长,竞争组织劳动力和资本,并持续超越传统跨国公司时,会是什么样子?

当政治机构 -- 城市、州、国家和新的网络国家 -- 采用链上治理并改善民主价值观在互联网时代的表达方式时,会是什么样子?

当全球经济货币的 10% 是稳定币时,当信用中介从部分准备金借贷转向以更安全的数字现金工具(如稳定币)为基础建立的链上信贷市场,并以亚马逊对商业和 AdWords 对广告的方式向长尾供需开放信贷和债务时,会是什么样子?

所有这些都可以在未来 10 多年内实现。 时间过得很快,但当你把眼光放远,看看已经取得的成就,以及这些成就是如何为我们的未来奠定基础时,你很难不感到无比乐观。

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