Crypto and Switzerland

[Virtual miner]

Switzerland might have been a quite small country but they have always played a significant role in the world Economy. In a way that they know how to attract investors accross the globe to invest in their banks. But the times have changed now due to various global regulations swiss bank have been forced to share credentials of foreigners. Therefore they are actually making a crypto friendly country where people's wealth can be saved with the help of crypto currencies. Soon we might see number of crypto banks emerging in Switzerland.

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[Ealex]

As we all know Switzerland is well known for its banking system. I watched Wolf Of Wall Street, well you know how protected Belfort was in Switzerland. I'm wondering is Switzerland opened to crypto currency. Do they allow to save your money earned and cashed out via different crypto exchange websites

Yes, Switzerland is crypto friendly. Read:
https://www.coindesk.com/swiss-government-paving-way-bitcoin-blockchain-banks/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3julou/switzerlands_bitcoin_friendly_environment_proves/

[Kemarit]

Switzerland has changed a lot. Their banks aren't what they used to be. They've joined the AEOI club, sharing all your financial data with tax services of more than 100 countries. And my bank account which was free, now requires a 25 CHF monthly fee because of my foreign residence.

It has something do with the US forcing Switzerland to open and share data with other countries as part of a global war on terror. However, I still believed that Switzerland didn't agree with this that's why they are now accepting cryptocurrencies. Its like giving the f** you to the US of A.

Switzerland might have been a quite small country but they have always played a significant role in the world Economy. In a way that they know how to attract investors accross the globe to invest in their banks. But the times have changed now due to various global regulations swiss bank have been forced to share credentials of foreigners. Therefore they are actually making a crypto friendly country where people's wealth can be saved with the help of crypto currencies. Soon we might see number of crypto banks emerging in Switzerland.

This is my thought exactly. Switzerland has a big impact in the global economy. Such stable country although small but already among the top 10 country to live in. They will definitely lead the way of 'hiding' for crypto wealth but its not a bad thing though, every individual has the right to do so. So nothing is changed, bank secrecy and now crypto secrecy and safe haven for crypto lovers all over the world.

[win z]

There's a long waiting list for ICO's to register their Foundations in Switzerland at the moment. You also need a Swiss citizen to invest some capital in your Foundation to be able to set it up. It's not as simple as it used to be in Q1, 2016.

[Balaxi]

The Swiss are way ahead compared to US or major EU countries.

I am not Swiss, but as far I know, it is a very decentralized country where every canton decides by himself regarding taxation (correct me if I am wrong). Zug (https://cryptovalley.swiss/), Ethereum Foundation, solid AML regulations, clear stance on bitcoin's legal standing (https://www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20133854), Falcon Private Bank, Pro-Civis Swiss-Indian startup and plethora of other blocktech startups.

So obvious, to maintain this leading role and the marketing image, they won't discard BTC related activities. It would be a suicide.

[rasl.curt]

The Swiss municipality announced that it will accept tax payments in bitcoin. The announcement means a further impetus for Switzerland's bid to become the world leader in the bitcoin industry and the crypto currency. Switzerland seeks to create a global center for bitcoin regulation, announcing that now citizens can pay taxes through it. This announcement further strengthened Switzerland as the world leader in taking bitcoin

[elenora]

The Swiss Stock Exchange to launch its own Cryptocurrency Exchange

On Friday, SIX - company owning and operating Swiss Stock Exchange made an announcement of planning to launch a Cryptocurrency
Exchange - SIX Digital Exchange, which will be fully regulated. This shows their consistent interest in the crypto space.

The company announced that the new SIX Digital Exchange will be governed by the Swiss National bank and Swiss regulator FINMA.
Switzerland is considered to be one of the most crypto-friendly countries in the world.

The current crypto-market trend is all bearish with the most prominent cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, collapsing from a huge $20K to a mere
$6K recently and this decision of SIX rises amidst this down signs, which certainly shows their concrete belief in the cryptocurrencies. To
this, the CEO of SIX cited:

"This is the beginning of a new era for capital markets infrastructures," Jos Dijsselhof, the CEO of SIX said in a statement. "For us, it is
abundantly clear that much of what is going on in the digital space is here to stay and will define the future of our industry."

Click here to read the full article.

[Balaxi]

I would add Malta too.

[marcbitcoins]

As we all know Switzerland is well known for its banking system. I watched Wolf Of Wall Street, well you know how protected Belfort was in Switzerland. I'm wondering is Switzerland opened to crypto currency. Do they allow to save your money earned and cashed out via different crypto exchange websites

Like other countries in Europe, Bitcoin and Crypto currencies investments are legal in Switzerland in which everyone can use it in any establishments including the banks and we see no sign of difficulties or threat for this country as they continue to embrace it. Unlike other countries that they ban the use of Cyrpto as they see only negative aspects but it is not happening specially in Switzerland but instead the economy of the country is becoming more stable and strong.Here is the link for your reference https://www.ft.com/content/c2098ef6-ff84-11e7-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5.

[palle11]

The Swiss secrecy in banking system has been collapsed. In the past, you can hardly get a banking information via the Swiss bank but not anymore and even at death, the secrecy is even exposed more.

In other words, the Swiss original banking system will welcome the anonymous nature of cryptocurrency and bitcoin with two hands, that whatever exposure lies in the hand of owner and no longer in a third person.

[bambazamba]

As we all know Switzerland is well known for its banking system. I watched Wolf Of Wall Street, well you know how protected Belfort was in Switzerland. I'm wondering is Switzerland opened to crypto currency. Do they allow to save your money earned and cashed out via different crypto exchange websites

Yes , Switzerland is very open to crypto currency . They actually have banks and ATMs for this purpose .
It is one of those countries which have open their minds and thoughts about bitcoin and other virtual currencies . There are  many ICOs
that are basically originated from Switzerland.

[Victorycoin]

Switzerland primary source of income is the banking industry and when they see that a new currency is being developed like Bitcoin of course they are going to adapt to it. Most probably they are already studying on how to incorporate crypto currency to a  fiat banking system.

That must have been their line of thought as it stands to restore their safe haven status one more time. It matters to the Bitcoin community that the number of very crypto friendly countries are beginning to add up, no doubt a numbers of countries are keenly observing the development and won't be any surprise to see many countries toeing their footsteps as the popularity and adoption of Bitcoin becomes quite difficult to down play by any country.

[USDOLLAR]

Switzerland opened up the crypto currency and want to become the crypto valley to attracting companies that launch their ICO.

[Goozzi]

Unlike most countries in Switzerland, everything is very good. I read an interview of one influential Swiss, and so he said that there is only one type of crypto-investors for them - regretting that they did not invest in "blockchain" in a much larger volume. This is understandable because most Swiss people - very rich people (millionaires or billionaires) and crypto currency for them - is a very good way to invest available capital in an asset that is quite worthy to take a place in the investment portfolio.
 Also in Switzerland there are several leading firms and banks using bitcoins to close small transactions in countries using cryptocurrency, mainly in Asia.
 In addition the Swiss southern city of Chiasso, located on the border with Italy, will accept tax payments in bitcoins.
 Definitely Switzerland is one of the leaders in Crypto and this is only a small part of those areas where they uses cryptocurrency.

[poktur]

The Swiss are well done, try to keep up with the times in the financial sector!