大卫·施瓦茨 (David Schwartz) 预测比特币将“在很长一段时间内”保持第一大加密货币的地位

Ripple 首席技术官 David Schwartz 预测，比特币可能会“在很长一段时间内”保持第一大加密货币的地位。

David Schwartz, chief technology officer at Ripple, has predicted that Bitcoin will likely remain the number one cryptocurrency "for a long time." Schwartz's prediction is based on the idea that the value of money comes rather from network effects than the technology behind it. However, when asked to define a specific time frame, Schwarz did not rule out that things could change "overnight."

Ripple 首席技术官 David Schwartz 预测，比特币可能会“在很长一段时间内”保持第一大加密货币的地位。施瓦茨的预测基于这样的想法：货币的价值更多地来自网络效应，而不是其背后的技术。然而，当被要求定义具体的时间框架时，施瓦茨并不排除事情可能“一夜之间”发生变化。

"I tend to think 3-5 years, but sometimes things seem to take forever and sometimes they seem to change overnight," he added.

“我倾向于认为需要 3-5 年，但有时事情似乎需要永远，有时似乎在一夜之间就发生了变化，”他补充道。

The prediction comes amid an escalating feud between some of the leading pro-Bitcoin voices and the XRP community. As reported by U.Today, Pierre Rochard, vice president at prominent Bitcoin mining platform Riot Platforms, recently accused Ripple of being the main obstacle to the introduction of a strategic Bitcoin reserve. While pushing back on this criticism, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse seemingly confirmed that his company was advocating for establishing a multi-token reserve, which is something that wouldn't sit well with Bitcoin maximalists.

这一预测是在一些支持比特币的主要声音与 XRP 社区之间不断升级的争执之际做出的。据《今日美国》报道，著名比特币挖矿平台 Riot Platforms 副总裁 Pierre Rochard 最近指责 Ripple 是引入比特币战略储备的主要障碍。在反驳这一批评的同时，Ripple 首席执行官布拉德·加林豪斯 (Brad Garlinghouse) 似乎证实，他的公司正在提倡建立多代币储备，这与比特币极端主义者的观点不太相符。

Prominent pro-Bitcoin entrepreneur Jack Mallers went as far as claiming that Ripple is undermining "American prosperity and freedom" with its alleged lobbying efforts that are supposedly aimed at stopping a Bitcoin-only cryptocurrency reserve. "Ripple is a for-profit company. It prints its own token…And it is asking the U.S. government to support its monopoly," he added.

著名的支持比特币的企业家 Jack Mallers 甚至声称 Ripple 正在破坏“美国的繁荣和自由”，其所谓的游说活动据称旨在阻止仅使用比特币的加密货币储备。 “Ripple 是一家营利性公司。它印刷自己的代币......并且它要求美国政府支持其垄断，”他补充道。

As reported by U.Today, Garlinghouse recently stated that Ripple now owns more than $100 billion worth of XRP.

据《今日美国》报道，Garlinghouse 最近表示，Ripple 目前拥有价值超过 1000 亿美元的 XRP。