

We hope the vote will be successful, but even if it isn’t, it will already be a success if the topic is brought to the public debate.” “If the signatures are gathered successfully, the vote will legally have to happen, and so will the conversations and debates, eventually informing and educating better everyone in Switzerland, and hopefully worldwide, as we set the example. While the initiative is ambitious in nature, 2B4CH’s founder and chair Yves Bennaim is not too concerned whether the initiative gets approved or not. Should the initiative be approved, it would effectively change the constitutional clause to “The Swiss National Bank shall create sufficient currency reserves from its revenues part of these reserves shall be held in gold and Bitcoin.” Notably, the initiative aims to add bitcoin to the list of assets held by the Swiss central bank.

The associated shared details about the initiative on Friday, saying that it plans to commence a popular federal initiative by collecting as many as 100,000 signatures for the introduction of bitcoin to article 99 clause 3 of the Swiss federal constitution. In what comes as another bullish development for the premier cryptocurrency’s future, Swiss non-profit think tank 2B4CH has unveiled a new initiative that, if successful, could make BTC one of Switzerland’s reserve assets.

Switzerland have been drawn in Group A alongside Turkey, Italy and Wales, and will hope to reach the knockout stages once again.A switzerland-based non-profit think tank has launched an initiative with an aim to make bitcoin (BTC) one of the country’s reserve assets. The Switzerland squad is captained by Arsenal’s Granit Xhaka and features Newcastle United’s Fabian Schar and Liverpool’s Xherdan Shaqiri amongst other familiar faces.

Qualification for Euro 2020 was secured in top spot, a point ahead of Denmark, who they failed to beat in their two meetings. Later that year it was announced that he would be taking over from Hitzfeld as Switzerland manager, which resulted in him being sacked by the Italian side for failing to inform them of the agreement. Petkovic’s most high-profile role was at Lazio, where he won the Coppa Italia in 2013, beating fierce rivals Roma 1-0 in the final through Senad Lulic’s goal. He first acted as player-manager at Bellinzona, later returning to the club for a second spell in charge in October 2005.įrom there, he moved on to Young Boys, Turkish side Samsunspor and Sion, where he oversaw four games as temporary manager.
