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07/12/2020

At , a startup in Crypto Valley, we are looking for a few new people to join the team. Initially we are looking for someone with accounting background and with a flair for or interest in software application development, and ideally also with some understanding or interest within and . See the full advert here: http://earlyhire.ch/job-details?id=63226

03/02/2018

Join us Tuesday in Zug

Tue, Feb 6, 2018, 7:00 PM: • What we'll doFirst Tuesday in February.This time we had a cancellation and had to find another speaker last minute, and lo and behold, this will be interesting and not the

07/01/2018

It sort of beats the purpose when an Ethereum transaction is more expensive than a PayPal transaction. Counterproductive really.

Blockchain promises trust, automated trust, not (only) monetary speculation. Money is just the first application of Blockchain, i.e. Bitcoin if you didn't know. Ethereum is the second generation, the smart contracts that promises so much more than (decentralized governance of) money.

This is not about money. Not at all. It's about decentralization, about trusting a machine that cannot lie instead of middlemen and authorities that can.

The cryptocurrency and ICO hype is derailing the vision of how the technology can bring fairness to all corners of the planet. We need this back on track!

Sure, fine, maybe it's a bubble. OK it's definitely a bubble, but that's a good thing, a bubble brings attention and investment in infrastructure, which..

10/10/2017

In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of na...

10/10/2017

Many good points in this article

Attention on ICO classifications may be blinding market observers from other failings in the market, according to one blockchain lawyer.

01/10/2017

Interesting times ahead, from Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/ktorpey/2017/09/30/regulators-are-investigating-ethereum-icos-in-switzerland-where-600-million-has-already-been-raised/

Switzerland has been at the center of the Ethereum ICO craze. Now, regulators are looking into whether some of these projects may have run afoul of the law.

23/09/2017

Some nice info on ICOs to extract from this article https://www.forbes.com/sites/chancebarnett/2017/09/23/inside-the-meteoric-rise-of-icos/

Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, have accounted for $2.3 billion in funding - more than the Venture Capital industry has invested into blockchain-based startups - so far in 2017. Here's what's behind the meteoric growth of ICOs.

27/08/2017

Excellent news for Crypto Valley Association, all us start-ups in this space and for Switzerland https://medium.com//swiss-feder-councillor-ueli-maurer-warns-of-overregulation-and-suggests-new-legal-entity-to-4e01f68e757a

Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer, head of the Federal Department Of Finance came up with a interesting idea, while recently visiting fintech…

26/08/2017

ICOs (or TGEs) are exploding. Here's a view on why https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/08/25/initial-coin-offerings-exploding-companies-can-avoid-landmines/

Why initial coin offerings are exploding - and how companies can avoid the landmines - SiliconANGLE

26/08/2017

Our Crypto Valley Association is driving a leading global Blockchain hub https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/crypto-valley_swiss-fintech-steps-up-global-hub-drive/43460244

Zug's Crypto Valley aims to become a leading global centre of financial technology (fintech) research.

22/08/2017

Lovely read https://medium.com//confessions-of-an-insecure-entrepreneur-802926b4b39c

or how I learned to stop worrying and love the crazy.

12/08/2017

Supply Chain is where Blockchain could bring immediate impact http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/blockchain-big-data-value-global-trade-1634383

Blockchain and data science experts talk about the hidden value of distributed ledger technology.