比特幣價(jià)格跌破1萬(wàn)美元

Bitcoin plunged below $10,000 on Wednesday, marking its worst two-day rout in three years, only hours before the first monthly futures contracts on the controversial cryptocurrency expired.

比特幣價(jià)格周三暴跌至1萬(wàn)美元以下，出現(xiàn)三年來(lái)最糟糕的兩日暴跌，而就在幾小時(shí)后，這種有爭(zhēng)議的加密貨幣的首批月度期貨合約將到期。

The most widely held digital currency has fallen almost a third in the past two days, reducing its total market value to about $165bn, on fears that global regulators will intensify their crackdown on market activity.

由于擔(dān)心全球監(jiān)管機(jī)構(gòu)將加大打擊市場(chǎng)活動(dòng)的力度，這一持有面最廣的數(shù)字貨幣在過去兩天已經(jīng)跌去近三分之一的價(jià)值，使其總市場(chǎng)價(jià)值減少至約1650億美元。

The falling price was accompanied by record trading on the two Chicago derivatives markets that offer trading in bitcoin futures. About $325m of bitcoin futures changed hands at CME Group and Cboe Global Markets on Tuesday, equivalent to just under 30,000 bitcoins.

伴隨著比特幣價(jià)格下降，芝加哥兩家提供比特幣期貨交易的衍生品市場(chǎng)創(chuàng)下交易量紀(jì)錄。周二，芝加哥商品交易所集團(tuán)(CME Group，簡(jiǎn)稱芝商所)和芝加哥期權(quán)交易所全球市場(chǎng)(Cboe Global Markets)交易了約3.25億美元的比特幣期貨，相當(dāng)于近3萬(wàn)枚比特幣。

Both futures contracts were down about 10 per cent in US early afternoon activity on Wednesday.

周三午后的交易中，兩種期貨合約都下跌了約10%。

The expiry of the first monthly futures contracts, listed by Cboe Global Markets, will be closely watched as professional investors examine ways to trade the volatile bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies inside the walls of a regulated exchange.

首份月度期貨合約——在芝加哥期權(quán)交易所全球市場(chǎng)上市——的到期將受到密切關(guān)注，專業(yè)投資者將研究如何在受監(jiān)管的交易所內(nèi)交易波動(dòng)劇烈的比特幣和其他加密貨幣。

Bitcoin prices have fallen to roughly the same level as early December, when US market regulators allowed futures contracts to be traded. However, some traders expressed doubt that there was a link between the two.

比特幣價(jià)格已差不多跌至去年12月初的水平，當(dāng)時(shí)美國(guó)監(jiān)管機(jī)構(gòu)批準(zhǔn)了比特幣期貨合約的交易。然而，一些交易商商對(duì)這兩者間的聯(lián)系表示懷疑。

“I don’t believe there is enough volume or open interest in futures to have any meaningful impact on the spot price of bitcoin,” said Garrett See, chief executive of Chicago-based cryptocurrency trader DV Chain.

芝加哥加密貨幣交易商DV Chain的首席執(zhí)行官加勒特•西伊(Garrett See)表示：“我不相信期貨市場(chǎng)有足夠的交易量或持倉(cāng)量，能對(duì)比特幣的現(xiàn)貨價(jià)格產(chǎn)生任何有意義的影響。”

Settlement of Cboe contracts is based on data collected from the Gemini Exchange. By Wednesday morning on Cboe, 4,431 January-expiry bitcoin futures contracts — of one bitcoin each — had changed hands at $9,780 per contract.

芝加哥期權(quán)交易所合約的結(jié)算基于從Gemini Exchange收集的數(shù)據(jù)。截至周三上午，芝加哥期權(quán)交易所全球市場(chǎng)交易了4431份1月到期的比特幣期貨合約——每份合約為1枚比特幣——每份合約價(jià)格為9780美元。

That compared with a price per bitcoin immediately on cash exchanges of about $9,421.13. CME, the world’s biggest exchange operator by market value, had traded more than 3,000 contracts on Tuesday. Each CME contract is for five bitcoins.

相比之下，比特幣的實(shí)時(shí)現(xiàn)金交易價(jià)格為每枚約9421.13美元。芝商所是按市值計(jì)全球最大交易所運(yùn)營(yíng)商，周二交易逾3000份合約，每份合約為5枚比特幣。