Prakriti Entrepreneur Breakfast with Luzius Meisser

Sell gold – buy Bitcoin: The trade of the year 2013

In 2013, the Bitcoin price rose from 10 to 800 USD – according to the New York Times, the ‘Trade of the Year’. What is behind this development, and what does the future hold for the digital currency?

In this lecture, Luzius Meisser, President of the Bitcoin Association Switzerland, analyses the price history, technical fundamentals and potential of Bitcoin. He also examines the motivation of key investors and the influence of planned Bitcoin ETFs.

Luzius Meisser is a computer scientist (ETH), founder of the cloud service Wuala (sold to LaCie) and currently a master's student in economics at the University of Zurich.