#Barney the Swiss robot bartender ready to shake up cocktails

#Barney the Swiss robot bartender ready to shake up cocktails

“#Barney the Swiss robot bartender ready to shake up cocktails” ZURICH, April 21 – Barney is a bit different from your usual Swiss bartender. He is fully automated, mixes dozens of cocktails and even makes terrible jokes. Developer F & P Robotics says it is seeing rising interest in “The Barney Bar” and hopes it will be a hit among hotels, bars and shopping…

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# Switzerland’s largest insurer AXA starts accepting Bitcoin as payment

# Switzerland’s largest insurer AXA starts accepting Bitcoin as payment

“# Switzerland’s largest insurer AXA starts accepting Bitcoin as payment ” Europe’s second-largest insurance firm AXA has become Switzerland’s first all-line insurer to offer its customers the option to pay their bills with Bitcoin (BTC), facilitated through a collaboration with the established cryptocurrency broker Bitcoin Suisse. Bitcoin payments will be accepted for nearly all AXA…

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# Lockheed Martin adopts blockchain for supply chain management in Switzerland

# Lockheed Martin adopts blockchain for supply chain management in Switzerland

“# Lockheed Martin adopts blockchain for supply chain management in Switzerland ” United States aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with SyncFab, a Silicon Valley distributed manufacturing platform, to streamline supplier capabilities across Switzerland, offering yet another tangible use case for blockchain technology.  Under the new agreement, SyncFab will provide Lockheed…

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# CoinShares launches physically-backed Litecoin ETP

# CoinShares launches physically-backed Litecoin ETP

“# CoinShares launches physically-backed Litecoin ETP ” European digital asset manager CoinShares continues to actively expand its physically-backed cryptocurrency exchange-traded product offering with a new Litecoin (LTC) ETP. According to an April 6 announcement, CoinShares has launched its CoinShares Physical Litecoin. Listed under the ticker symbol LITE, each unit of the Litecoin ETP is backed…

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#Feds indict Swiss hacker behind massive Verkada breach

#Feds indict Swiss hacker behind massive Verkada breach

“#Feds indict Swiss hacker behind massive Verkada breach” The feds have filed criminal charges against a prolific Swiss hacker who took credit for breaking into more than 150,000 security cameras run by a Silicon Valley startup. A Seattle grand jury indicted Tillie Kottmann, the 21-year-old hacktivist who claimed to be behind last week’s massive breach…

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# Swiss regulators reject Bitcoin Suisse’s banking license application

# Swiss regulators reject Bitcoin Suisse’s banking license application

“# Swiss regulators reject Bitcoin Suisse’s banking license application ” Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority — the country’s principal financial regulator — has denied Bitcoin Suisse’s application for a banking license.  According to an official announcement on March 17, Bitcoin Suisse’s current application is ineligible for approval on the grounds that “various elements that are…

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