香港一比特币平台关闭 3千投资者或损失30亿港元

　　中新网2月8日电 据香港《文汇报》报道，比特币再次令香港投资者“损手烂脚”：香港一个比特币支付平台近日突然结业，估计近3000名比特币投资者随时可能血本无归。

According to the Hong Kong Report, Bitcoin has once again made Hong Kong investors “worse”: a bitcoin payment platform in Hong Kong has closed suddenly in recent days, and it is estimated that nearly 3,000 bitcoins may be lost at any moment.

　　据悉，一批香港比特币投资者到访有关交易平台的办公室时，发现已人去楼空，疑涉及欺诈与层压式推销，估计各“苦主”损失的总金额随时高达30亿港元。他们今日会集体报警求助。

When a group of Hong Kong Bitcoin investors visited the offices of the relevant trading platform, they discovered that they had gone empty, suspected of fraud and high-pressure marketing, and estimated that the sum of the losses incurred by the “principal owners” would be as high as HK$3 billion at any given time.

　　比特币(bitcoin)近年平地一声雷，自2009年由自称中本聪的网路玩家发明以后，曾备受全球网络玩家热捧，去年交易量由5000万枚增长至8000万枚，相当于由150亿美元增长至230亿美元(约1800亿港元)，至今比特币总投资金额已高达4.3亿美元。但比特币因没有实际资产价值，其价格于去年急剧滑落，更一度被喻为最差的投资商品。

Bitcoin, which has been invented in 2009 by Internet players who claim to be middle-aged, has been well received by global Internet players, with transactions growing from 50 million to 80 million last year, equivalent to $15 billion to $23 billion (approximately $180 billion), and has so far invested up to $430 million. But Bitcoin, for lack of real asset value, fell sharply last year, and at one point was described as the worst investment commodity.

　　比特币价格曾于上月初暴跌32.06%，为2013年10月以来最低位置。虽然消息一出，令部分玩家短期离场，认为除非虚拟货币得到更好监管，否则不再持续投资；但其剧烈波动性仍然受投机者青睐，不少人士盲目追捧，以为有利可图，结果赔了夫人又折兵。

Bitcoin prices fell by 32.06% at the beginning of last month, the lowest level since October 2013. Although some of the players left for a short period of time, believing that they would not continue to invest unless the virtual currency was better regulated, its volatility was still favoured by speculators, and many were blindly pursued as profitable, thereby compromising the wife’s life.

　　香港警方表示，网络安全及科技罪案调查科截至昨晚7时，仍未接获有关比特币案件，但仍会密切留意事态发展。

The Hong Kong Police indicated that, as of 7 last night, the Cybersecurity and Science and Technology Crimes Investigation Section had not received any information on the Bitcoin case, but would keep an eye on developments.

　　30人求助 人均涉款百万港币

30 persons seeking help in the amount of HK$ million per person

　　立法会议员梁耀忠日前接获近30名比特币受害者求助，指怀疑被某比特币交易及储存平台诈骗，受害者平均涉及款项逾100万港元，甚至有受害者损失逾千万港元。

Members of the Legislative Council, Leung Yoo-chung, have recently received assistance from nearly 30 victims of Bitcoin, who are suspected of having been defrauded by a bitcoin trading and storage platform, and who are involved in an average of over HK$ 1 million, or even in the loss of over HK$ 10 million.

　　他引述其中一名受害人指，去年9月经朋友推介，在一个报称是比特币投资者交易支付的平台，开设帐户并投资约130万港元。但事主去年底发现平台显示的比特币价格，走势大幅落后于市场，同时不能套现及进行交易，办事处亦怀疑不再营运，直感受骗。

He cited one of the victims who had been promoted by friends in September last year to open an account and invest approximately HK$ 1.3 million in a platform that reported being traded by Bitcoin investors. But the owner found the platform’s price at the end of last year, which fell far behind the market, was unable to sell and trade, and the office suspected that it would no longer operate and would simply feel deluded.

　　梁耀忠续指，有关平台初时容许买家自己购买比特币，惟上月突然改变买卖游戏规则，除非买家加码投资，否则禁止自由买卖，其后价格走势大幅落后市场，该平台就停止营运。

Liang Yung continued that the platform initially allowed buyers to buy their own bitcoins, except for a sudden change in the rules of the purchase and sale game last month, where free trade was prohibited unless the buyer invested in extra-valued investments, and the platform ceased to operate after the price had stagnated significantly behind the market.

　　他称，估计堕入层压式推销陷阱的受害者达3000人，损失金额随时高达30亿港元，早前到访该平台办公室时，发现该办公室已人去楼空，负责人更无法联络，故今日会召开紧急记者会讲解事件，并因应怀疑事件涉及欺诈与层压式推销，会集体向警方求助。

He states that it is estimated that 3,000 people have fallen into the marketing trap with losses of up to HK$3 billion at any one time. When visiting the platform's office earlier, it was discovered that the office had been empty and that the person in charge was not in a position to contact him, so that an urgent press conference would be held today to explain the incident and to turn to the police collectively if it was suspected that the incident involved fraud and high-pressure marketing.

　　据悉，香港警方今年初成立的网络安全及科技罪案调查科，截至昨晚19时尚未接获市民有关比特币的报案，警方会密切留意事件发展。

According to the information received, the Cybersecurity and Science and Technology Crimes Investigation Unit, established by the Hong Kong Police early this year, had not, as of 19 last night, received a report from the public on Bitcoin, and the police will keep an eye on developments.

　　(原标题：香港一比特币平台关闭 3千投资者或损失30亿港元)

(original title: Hong Kong's one bitcoin platform shut down 3,000 investors or lost HK$3 billion)