The Swiss Road To Crypto – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This episode features a comprehensive interview with Michele Federici. Previously involved with Seba Bank (now Amina Bank), Michele discusses his journey from a childhood fascination with computers and security, influenced by his grandfather, to pioneering the development of ultra-secure crypto storage solutions. He shares anecdotes from his early engagement with Bitcoin, insights into the complexities of crypto custody, and detailed explanations of technical challenges encountered while securing cryptocurrencies. 

The conversation shifts to Federici's perspective on user interface improvements, self-custody solutions, and his vision for enhancing crypto security through innovative technologies like Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and zero-knowledge proofs. Towards the end, Federici provides personal insights on his inspirations, his first paycheck, and the non-financial best investment he's ever made — founding his company.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelefederici/

https://michelefederici.com

https://sig9.ch

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This podcast features an in-depth discussion with William Fauchoux, the founder of Blockchain your IP, a company that leverages blockchain technology for intellectual property protection. Apart from explaining how his company is helping various sectors (from luxury consumer goods to the defense industry) to guard against industrial espionage, William also provides insightful examples of client experiences. Blockchain Your IP, a company, has innovatively created a solution by offering a time stamping service using the Bitcoin blockchain to ensure the protection of trade secrets from thefts.  He explains why they chose the Bitcoin blockchain over creating their own blockchain and also notes the increased need for effortless and consistent international IP protection solutions. This podcast initially recorded in French also includes William sharing his encounter with Bitcoin and its subsequent influence on his career.

01:52 The Problem of Intellectual Property Theft

04:34 The Solution Offered by Blockchain Your IP

15:37 Exploring Customer Use Cases and Financial Consequences

20:48 The Journey of Blockchain Your IP and Customer Acquisition

23:55 Personal Insights and Rapid Fire Questions

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In Europe, few people have revenue in bitcoin, aside from miners or people who run exchanges. Therefore few people use it as a means of payment. But this is evolving. Marc Guillard and the Princess hotel is an example. We will explore their history, who their clients are, if bitcoin really helps their business, how their clientele is evolving, what their tech stack looks like and more.

Timestamps:

02:25 The hotel, its history, types of clients

10:00 Why business went up in a bear market 

15:40 Tech stack, costs and advantages

23:31 Taxes, bank relationships and paying people in bitcoin

29:30 Portion of revenues that comes from bitcoin 

31:44 Advice to other entrepreneurs who want to accept bitcoin

40:17 How Marc discovered bitcoin

44:24 Rapid fire questions

Links

www.hotel-princess.de

www.twitter.com/princessplo

www.youtube.com/bitcoin-hotel

https://www.youtube.com/@BITCOIN-HOTEL

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Mr. Kuhn is a lawyer who has studied Law in Switzerland and the U.S. He has worked for the Swiss National Bank and has been involved intimately with several blockchain start ups. He has a great insight into the legal issues of crypto in Switzerland . As you will see he thinks like a disruptor

We will be discussing

-securitisation laws in Switzerland

-the difference in approach between the USA and Switzerland in crypto space

-how central banks see crypto and bitcoin

-we discuss Libra- and what pressure the Americans have put on the Swiss concerning libra

-the new digital ledger technology law coming to Switzerland

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This case should disturb all people concerned about the over-reach of a justice system. Like the Tornado cash case, it only reinforces the need for the protection of individual freedom through anonymity. Tor Ekland and Michael Hassard describe the case of Swedish-citizen Roman Sterlingov accused of administering the crypto-mixer Bitcoin Fog and laundering $330 Million of criminal proceeds through it over the course of a decade. But there isn't a single piece of evidence that Roman ever operated Bitcoin Fog. He was merely an innocent user of the service securing his privacy interests. Nothing about this case adds up except the profit motives of the investigators and companies involved.

Roman faces 50-years to life in prison based on speculative, uncorroborated, blockchain forensics conducted at desks thousands of miles away from Sweden.

Hear Roman's lawyers dissect this Kafkaesque nightmare and explain why everyone in the crypto community should be concerned about this American

Timestamps:

03:14 Who is Roman Sterlingov - back story

08:20 MtGox, Chainanlysis - questionable data

18:40 The targeting of Roman Sterlingov

21:30 Cast of Characters

35:52 Venue - Actions not committed in the USA

42:45 Cost of defense, friction 

44:20 Need for anonymity

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Eli Ndinga, head of research at 21 Shares, recently gave a talk on what is needed to onboard the next 1 billion people to crypto. We discuss :

- the improvements that still need to be made to the tech stack to onboard more people

- reasons for the accelerating use of crypto

- decentralized file storing solutions used in Ukraine 

- volume of Tether compared to Visa and Mastercard

- regulation in the USA 

- Binance, its importance and recent regulatory concerns

- differences in analyzing blockchain projects vs fintech start-ups

and much more.

Links

21 shares research. https://21shares.com/insights

Eli Ndinga Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliezerndinga/

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Julian Liniger CEO and co-founder of Relai. Relai is an app developed in Switzerland that allows you to buy bitcoin without entering your personal data. We discuss what Relai is, their genesis, their current growth, their client makeup and more. We also delve into what it's really like creating a crypto startup in Switzerland and dealing with traditional banks.

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Timestamps:

01:35 What is Relai, who is it for?

03:11 The genesis of Relai

13:21 KYC-less, and Mica and regulation

19:29 Input from Alexis Roussel, co-founder of Bity

24:22 What it is like dealing with swiss banks as a crypto start-up

29:20 Clients and client profiles

31:46 Reasons for current growth

41:01 Rapid fire questions

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We discuss the absorption of Credit Suisse by UBS, what it means for crypto in Switzerland and the banking sector in general. We also discuss the difference between crypto, DLT and trust, and how blockchain can add to transparency and help people audit companies. Finally we discuss continued attacks on the crypto industry in the USA and its implications for Switzerland.

Timestamps:

02:33 Credit Suisse absorption by UBS and its implications

10:31 Crypto, DLT and trust

16:40 Transparency, audits, stable coins and blockchains

21:25 Silvergate, Signature bank, and attacks on Binance and Coinbase

Link
Podcast with Cathie Wood and Arthur Laffer 

https://ark-invest.com/podcasts/

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We discuss Nostr, its 3 main components, relais, clients and key pairs. We discuss why Nostr is different than Twitter, and potential applications. I am joined by Alex Poltorak founder of Hodling SA, provider of self-custodial security solutions for large holders of bitcoin and Massimo Musumeci and physicist and security specialist at Denali.

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Timestamps:

03:54 What is Nostr, 3 components, clients, relais and key pairs 

12:47 NIPs, what are they?

13:55 NIP 5, NIP 57 and others

20:55. Coinjoin with Nostr and other possible applications 

25:41 Key management

30:55. Why woud you want to use Nostr

41:51. Rapid fire questions

Links

Nips

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

list of some people on Twitter and their Nostr. public keys

https://www.nostr.directory

some clients

https://astral.ninja

https://iris.to/

for iphone only

Damus- on the app store

wallet extension for chrome based browsers for generating keys

https://getalby.com

Nostr user names

Alex Poltorak

user name - polto@hodling.ch

npub1p0lt0chc53c7f9k848uy8eajeq8m643tuf43rwfyhdxcz4ymlzqs4ajck7

Massimo Musumeci

user name go@massmux.com

npub1sej07d37lnfk592wlh9uv2dy68jv2y0ez98p6dw7w0llx89hswesvs5fqm

his website

https://massmux.com

The Swiss Road To Crypto

user name - theswissroadtocrypto

npub1a0qh6arnrcdzul45604vadphmfzqyv068ztftsta2yq4haheg7zq4u9e7a

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theswissroadtocrypto@fountain.fm

massimo musumecci presentation of nostr in french

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 “The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.” 

We discuss Ordinals, the upcoming Shanghai upgrade of Ethereum, confusing actions from the SEC, stable coins and the more

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Timestamps:

02:10 Ordinals 

19:25 Ethereum Supply and Shanghai upgrade

21:47 Sec Finma and Regulation

23:49 Paxos Liquity and stable coins

32:59 Oasis, white hat counter hacks

Links

ordinals bitcoin manuel

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/bitcoin-ordinals/

article by Olga Ukulova in Bitcoin magazine

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/are-ordinals-really-good-for-bitcoin

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