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伊斯坦布尔一市场外汇兑换处接受比特币

区块链日报6月16日讯 据Altcointoday消息,在土耳其伊斯坦布尔87 Sabuncu Hani街市场内部,一个名为Santral Doviz的外汇兑换处接受比特币,游客可以用土耳其国家货币里拉买卖比特币,该市场已有550余年历史。

值得注意的是,比特币在土耳其被官方定义为非法定货币,在去年,土耳其声称比特币实际上“与伊斯兰教不相容”,因为它的政府无法控制它。当地媒体还曾发布相关声明:“在这个时候,买卖虚拟货币与宗教不相容,因为他们的估值对投机是开放的。他们可以很容易地在非法活动中使用,比如洗钱,而不是在国家的审计和监视之下。”

原报道有道新闻翻译如下:

本周早些时候,网上比特币社区的一名成员透露,伊斯坦布尔一个已有550年历史的市场里,有接受比特币的商家。这名男子贴出的这张照片,在这个被广泛认为是热门旅游目的地的拥挤市场上,有一个巨大的比特币标识。

积极的信号

位于土耳其伊斯坦布尔Sabuncu Hani大街87号的市场里,一家名为Santral Doviz的货币兑换公司接受比特币。在办公室,游客可以用土耳其的国家货币里拉来买卖比特币。与绝大多数传统市场一样,即使是在韩国、香港、中国大陆和台湾等无现金社会,土耳其市场上的大多数商家也不接受信用卡或其他支付方式,而接受现金。

因此,在传统的土耳其市场,当地外汇交易所接受比特币是采用加密货币的一个积极信号,表明游客和当地居民对加密货币都有需求。

在土耳其,比特币和其他加密货币并不违法,目前也没有与数字资产相关的法律法规。然而,土耳其金融当局此前宣布比特币不是货币,并要求银行避免向与加密货币相关的操作提供贷款。

土耳其政府宣布比特币是一种非法货币,这导致银行不愿为密码货币交易所提供银行支持。因此,密码货币交换在土耳其的受欢迎程度并没有提高,在过去的几年里,大多数土耳其投资者都依赖于像LocalBitcoins这样的点对点(P2P)交换来买卖比特币。

里拉下降

各国货币价值的下降一直被认为是加密货币增长和价值上升的一个因素。传统上,投资者购买黄金和政府债券等资产,以防止本国货币贬值影响他们的持有量。但在未来,随着加密货币市场的发展成为一个主要的资产类别,随着托管解决方案和金融机构的存在,加密货币可能成为与黄金和债券类似的避险资产。

不被视为储备货币的土耳其里拉等货币的价值受到美元和欧元等储备货币的巨大影响。当美国政府或欧盟决定加息时,里拉和其他小型国家货币的价值往往会下降。

鉴于美国在2018年第二次加息,分析人士已经开始预测,未来几周里拉将出现缓慢下跌。

法国兴业银行(Societe Generale)交叉资产策略师贾森•道(Jason Daw)表示:“宽松(美国)资金的浪潮正在消退,在美联储收紧政策的后期阶段,新兴市场的周期性压力将十分明显。”

在接受英国《金融时报》采访时,道明证券(TD Securities)和DoubleLine等投资公司强调,投资者可能会在短期内重返债券和传统资产,以应对里拉的贬值。

就连TD Securities也表示,越来越多的客户开始研究债券。去年,TD Securities的客户对债券持看跌态度。一名TD证券分析师解释道:

虽然客户没有似乎完全结构看空新兴市场资产,考虑到基本立场不一样-近年来,新兴市场波动的程度和一些非常消极的国家的例子(阿根廷和土耳其)投资者质疑利差长期问题的潜力。

从长远来看,比特币这样的数字资产可以被投资者用来对冲里拉等国家货币的价值,小型商户采用比特币可能是土耳其等自2017年以来表现强劲的经济体更广泛采用比特币的一个开始。

原报道英文原文如下:

Bitcoin Is Now Accepted at a 550-Year-Old Istanbul Market

Earlier this week, a member of an online Bitcoin community revealed that a 550-year-old market in Istanbul contains merchants accepting Bitcoin. The photograph which the individual posted featured a big Bitcoin logo in a crowded part of the market that is widely acknowledged as a popular tourist destination.

Positive Sign

Located inside the market at 87 Sabuncu Hani Street in Istanbul, Turkey, a currency exchange office called Santral Doviz accepts Bitcoin. At the office, tourists can buy and sell Bitcoin with the national currency of Turkey, the lira. Like the vast majority of traditional markets, even those in cashless societies like South Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan, most merchants at the Turkish market do not accept credit cards or other forms of payment than cash.

As such, the acceptance of Bitcoin by a local foreign currency exchange in the traditional Turkish market is a positive sign for cryptocurrency adoption, showing demand from both tourists and local residents for cryptocurrencies.

In Turkey, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are not illegal, and there are currently no laws or regulations that pertain to digital assets. However, Turkish financial authorities previously declared that Bitcoin is not money, and requested that banks avoid lending to operations related to cryptocurrencies.

The Turkish government’s declaring Bitcoin to be an illegitimate form of money caused banks to become reluctant to provide banking support for cryptocurrency exchanges. Consequently, cryptocurrency exchanges failed to increase in popularity in Turkey, and over the past few years, the majority of Turkish investors have relied on peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges like LocalBitcoins to buy and sell Bitcoin.

Declining Lira

The decline in the value of national currencies has always been considered a factor in the rising growth and value of cryptocurrencies. Traditionally, investors have purchased assets like gold and government bonds to prevent the devaluation of national currencies from affecting their holdings. But, in the future, as the cryptocurrency market evolves into a major asset class with the presence of custodial solutions and financial institutions, cryptocurrencies could become a safe haven asset competing with the likes of gold and bonds.

The value of currencies like the Turkish lira that are not considered reserve currencies are hugely influenced by reserve currencies such as the US dollar and euro. When the US government or the EU decide to increase interest rates, the value of the lira and other minor national currencies tend to fall.

Already, analysts have begun to predict a slow bleed out for the lira in the coming weeks, given that the US has increased its interest rates for the second time in 2018.

“The tide of easy [US] money is receding and periodic stress in emerging markets will be evident during the later stage of Fed tightening,” said Jason Daw, cross-asset strategist at Société Générale.

In interviews with the FT, investment firms such as TD Securities and DoubleLine have emphasized that investors will likely return to bonds and traditional assets in the short-term to combat the declining value of the lira.

Even TD Securities, whose clients were bearish on bonds throughout the past year, stated that an increasing number of clients have started to explore bonds. A TD Securities analyst explained:

WHILE CLIENTS DID NOT SEEM TO BE OUTRIGHT STRUCTURALLY BEARISH ON EM ASSETS, CONSIDERING THAT THE FUNDAMENTAL POSITION IS NOT AS NEGATIVE AS IT HAS BEEN IN RECENT YEARS, THE EXTENT OF EM VOLATILITY AND A COUPLE OF VERY NEGATIVE COUNTRY EXAMPLES (ARGENTINA AND TURKEY) HAVE INVESTORS QUESTIONING THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDER-SPREAD LONGER-TERM ISSUES.

In the long term, digital assets like Bitcoin could be used by investors to hedge the value of national currencies like the lira, and the adoption of Bitcoin by small merchants could be a start to wider adoption in economies like Turkey that have shown strength since 2017.

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