“比特币”作为网上兴起的一种新型数字化货币,因其具有去中心化、虚拟性、不通胀、交易和制作成本低、不可造假和可自由流通兑换等特征,受到广泛关注和热捧,也引起了各国政府的重视。比特币能否成为世界货币尚另当别论,但其特征对未来理想的世界货币的构建却有着重要的借鉴意义。本文论述了比特币的概念、发展历程和特点,分析了其为未来世界货币的构建提供的有益思路和借鉴。在此基础上提出了促进国际货币体系改革和发展的建议。
As a new digital currency emerging from the network, Bitcoin has attracted widespread attention, and also attracts the attention of governments because of its characteristics of decentration, virtuality, no inflation, low transaction cost and free convertibility. No matter if Bitcoin could become the world currency, its character- istics have important influence on building the future ideal world currency. The concept of Bitcoin, its character- istics and development process are discussed, and then the beneficial train of thought which help build the future world currency is analyzed. On this basis, a number of measures which promote the development of the interna- tional monetary system are proposed.