Ben Horowitz, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is bullish on Bitcoin.

    Horowitz's comments came Thursday in Aspen during Fortune BrainstormTech, during a conversation on how technological innovation is shaped by popular culture. And they came a day after Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz expressed skepticism toward the digital currency.

    Horowitz believes that Bitcoin is essentially software, which means that its success or failure will be based more on cultural adoption rather than on its early feature set. And Horowitz believes that such adoption is occurring, and that it will help improve the technology's breadth and applicability to the mainstream.

    Horowitz also said that Andreessen Horowitz has made several small Bitcoin-related investments, but declined to disclose them.

    风险投资公司安德森•霍洛维茨（Andreessen Horowitz）的联合创始人本•霍洛维茨看好比特币。

    周四，在阿斯彭举行的财富科技头脑风暴大会上，霍洛维茨在讨论流行文化如何左右科技创新这个问题时发表了对比特币的意见。而在之前一天，红杉资本（Sequoia Capital）合伙人迈克尔•莫里茨曾对这种数字货币的未来表示质疑。

    霍洛维茨认为，比特币本质上是一种软件。这意味着它的成功或失败将更多地取决于文化认同，而不是它早期的功能设置。而且，霍洛维茨认为，这种文化认同已经出现，而且将帮助改善这项技术的应用范围，提高它在主流市场的适应性。

    此外霍洛维茨还表示，安德森•霍洛维茨公司进行了几笔与比特币有关的小规模投资，但他拒绝披露具体的信息。（财富中文网）

    译者：刘进龙/汪皓