Dear Crypto Community and Blockchain buddies across the globe,
Welcome back to a special edition of Cryptonites On The Road during the World Economic Forum / Wef 2020 in Davos. In the coming weeks, we will be showcasing interviews with some of the sharpest minds in Fintech and Blockchain. So buckle up, and get ready to be Edutained!
In this episode, we are pleased to present you with a special guest, live from TechPark in Davos: Marc Bernegger, a Swiss superstar, and serial entrepreneur passionate about new technologies, the dotcom bubble, Fintech, and digital assets. Based in Zurich, he is an active board member and currently involved in Falcon Private Bank and Crypto Finance Group.
Marc has a fascinating background. In 1999 and at the age of 20, he founded the event platform usgang.ch, and was one of the founders of the ticketing-service amiando for which he received an award by the World Economic Forum called ‘WEF Technology Pioneer’ in 2010. In 2012, he discovered Bitcoin and started investing in Fintech companies and advocating for Blockchain adoption across Switzerland.
In this interview, he reminds us that technology is agnostic and that it doesn’t care about politics, but rather the power of mankind. He also explains how the early movers and shakers of crypto actually started in Zug, aka Crypto valley and why Switzerland has a decentralised political mindset from the start.
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Timestamps:
0:37 Check out our Community App!
01:36 Going from Fintech to Crypto finance, what got you started?
01:55 “I’ve always been interested in new technologies”
02:36 That particular thing that got you into Bitcoin…
03:14 “I like Blockchain, but Bitcoin is the exciting thing”
03:51 Switzerland has a decentralised political structure
05:40 Praising FINMA
07:16 Crypto Valley’s role globally and major trends
07:29 The core of Ethereum was founded in Zug
08:51 When ETF?
10:12 That’s it, the internet is just a temporary phenomenon…
10:50 Views on Bitcoin Maximalism
13:23 Andreas Antonopoulos and the 5 Pillars
14:17 “Bitcoin is the foundation of everything”
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