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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习： 投资数字货币需谨慎 GRE考试模拟：GRE阅读练习： 投资数字货币需谨慎 GRE考试精品课程训练  A new craze attracts the attention of regulators  一场新的狂热引起监管者的关注  Here is the deal.  有这样一笔买卖。  You can buy an entry in a computer ledger issued by a startup company on the basis of an unregulated prospectus.  你可以购买由某家初创公司根据没接受监管的招股书发行的计算机分类账户中的一个条目。  It is called an “initial coin offering” or ICO.  这被称为“首次货币发行”(initial coin offering)，简称ICO。  But though the ledger entry is called a coin, you cannot spend it in any shop.  但是，尽管这种账目被称为一种货币，你却无法在任何一家商店中把它花出去。  And whereas the use of the term ICO makes it sound like an IPO (initial public offering), the process whereby a firm lists on a stockmarket, coin ownership does not necessarily get you equity in the company concerned.  而且，尽管ICO一词的使用使之听上去像是一次IPO(initial public offering 股票首次公开发行)，即公司借以在股票市场上市的程序。但是，货币的所有权并不必然地能让你得到相关公司的权益。  This sounds like the kind of bargain that would appeal only to people who reply to e-mails from Nigerian princes offering to transfer millions to their accounts.  这听起来就像是只会诉诸于给来自尼日利亚王子们要求给他们的转帐几百万美元的邮件做回复的人的那种交易。  But ICOs may well be the most popular investment craze since the dotcom boom of 1999-2000; even Paris Hilton, a celebrity heiress, has jumped on the bandwagon.  但是，ICO很可能是1999-2000年网络泡沫以来最 受欢迎的投资狂热;就连名媛帕里斯·希尔顿也上车了。  The list of active, upcoming and recent ICOs on the website “ICO alert” covers 31 pages of A4 paper and includes around 600 companies.  在网站“ICO alert”上，正在进行之中、即将到来的以及近期的ICO名单有31页A4纸之长，包括大约600家公司。  More than $2bn has been raised in total.  总共已有2千多亿美元被募集起来。  There is a serious side to the craze, just as there was with the dotcom boom.  恰如网络泡沫一样，这场狂热有其严重的一面。  The technology that underpins digital currencies—the blockchain—is an important development.  支撑数字货币的技术——区块链——是一种重要的发展。  This is a secure, decentralised ledger that everyone can inspect but that no single us