BCash/Bitcoin cash did it on August 1st 2017, Bitcoin2x/Segwit2x does it at block 494,784. For better or worse, creating a new cryptocurrency by forking off of Bitcoin seems to be this season's fashion.

Record attendance for Bitcoin Meetup with Tony Vays in Zurich. The event with Tony Vays was attended by more than 330 Bitcoin enthusiast in Volkshaus Zurich.

Alexis Roussel, cofondateur de Bity, discusses the difference between true cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and centralized alternatives on Leman Bleu TV.

Manual Stagars is creating a Swiss FinTech documentary and talked to Luzius Meisser about the blockchain and opportunities for Switzerland.

Together with 23 co-signatories from all major parties, Swiss member of parliament Franz Gruter filed a parliamentary motion to reduce regulatory burdens of blockchain startups by restricting the legal definition of 'client deposit'.

The Bitcoin Association is invited to hold a talk about Bitcoin about twice per month at average. Here is a picture of one of the more notable events with 300 registered participants.

In a report published today, the Swiss government answers questions raised in two parliamentary postulates. The report concludes that Bitcoin is covered by existing laws and that no new regulation is needed.

The enormous computing power of the GHash.IO pool sparked another debate about 51%-attacks. In this post, I want to dispel the 'luck smoothing' argument.

In a recently published guide titled 'how consumers can protect themselves from financial market actors that operate without permit', the Swiss financial market authorities commented on Bitcoin.

In this guest article, Luzius Meisser reflects on MtGox's collapse and argues that fewer regulations would have enabled better market mechanisms to prevent such failures.

Our general assembly will take place on 2014-02-23 at Colab Zurich. Highlights include an intro to Ethereum and membership application form.

Swiss investment guru Marc Faber publishes a monthly market commentary. Along with the June commentary, he sent his subscribers a report on Bitcoin, titled "Dispelling the Myths of Bitcoin" and written by Lee Robinson from Atlana wealth. I already was in contact with Faber last autumn suggesting that he should send my report on Bitcoin to his readers - which he unfortunately did not even though he indicated interest. The report he finally attached is an interesting read, containing an excellent collection of quotes...

Luzius Meisser appears on Swiss radio program Echo der Zeit to discuss Bitcoin.

Join us for a general discussion meetup to talk about Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Luzius Meisser had a quick appearance on French-speaking Swiss TV RTS as well as on euronews.