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Updated · Bloomberg · May 8Swiss crypto campaigners abandon bid to require central bank Bitcoin holdings
8 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 8
- The proposal failed after supporters could not gather enough signatures to force a Swiss plebiscite, campaign founder Yves Bennaim said on Thursday.
- Bennaim said activists had known from the start the effort was a long shot and would now let the initiative lapse.
- The collapse ends, for now, an attempt to push the Swiss National Bank into holding Bitcoin as part of its reserves.
Why did crypto-friendly Switzerland reject Bitcoin reserves while other nations are now adding it? With central banks split, is tokenization a safer financial future than holding volatile Bitcoin? Is the U.S. building its strategic Bitcoin reserve at the expense of crime victims?