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To be honest, Zug as "crypto-valley" is more a thing they show to foreigners. Most crypto-events and meetups happen in Zurich. Also fresh startups rather open
by s3nnyy 9y ago
To be honest, Zug as "crypto-valley" is more a thing they show to foreigners. Most crypto-events and meetups happen in Zurich.
Also fresh startups rather open an office in Zurich other than Zug to have access to talent from ETH and an actual city to attract more people.
Since years I know the crypto community rather well and people are indeed very passionate about making the world a better place. I know people in Zurich, who are invested both with money and time in Bitcoin since it exists because they believe in it.
>"Switzerland's strong support for crypto is seemingly in direct contrast to France’s apparent distaste for this space with the French Minister stating regarding bitcoin: “I don’t like it."
This is a great example how Switzerland is different. Contrary to the rest of Europe, the Swiss choose to be pragmatic about almost all important topics: Taxes, healthcare, education system take somewhat the best parts from socialist Rest-of-Europe and more cut-troat/capitalist America and leave out the bad parts.
If you want to know more about Switzerland, here a blogpost I wrote 4 years ago and which is still valid today: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech" https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... (disclaimer: I am a recruiter hunting for tech talent all over Europe to join Swiss companies. If you look for a tech job e-mail me at iwan@coderfit.com.)
- wslh 9y ago> This is a great example how Switzerland is different. Contrary to the rest of Europe, the Swiss choose to be pragmatic about almost all important topics: Taxes, healthcare, education system take somewhat the best parts from socialist Rest-of-Europe and more cut-troat/capitalist America and leave out the bad parts. Very interested in what is happening in Zug but I don't know how far are you going with the pragmatism. Just thinking about all the money that went there, including Nazi money.
- baby 9y agoReal World Crypto was there last week! Which is one if not the most important crypto conference of the year. So they have that going for them already.
- jacquesm 9y ago> people are indeed very passionate about making the world a better place. And how exactly do they plan to do this?