Switzerland, Bitcoin, and the Shifting Landscape of Institutional Crypto

Hi everyone, welcome to Brainstorm. I'm Carson Cook joined by my colleague David Golding. Today we're joined by Phil Loya Kono, a Swiss fintech entrepreneur turned Bitcoin strategist. Phil co-founded Bergland, a Bitcoin advisory firm which was just acquired by Blockstream Capital Partners. In this episode, we'll unpack Switzerland's evolving role in institutional crypto and explore how it competes globally.

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>> Welcome to the podcast. Phil, >> thanks for having me. I'm excited. >> Yeah, thanks for being here. Um, so first, Phil, tell us a little bit about Bergland uh and what you're now doing uh with Blockstream Capital. >> Yes, absolutely. Happy to. It's been a it's been quite some quite some weeks.

Uh but but to be honest, it's it started off very interesting. I mean, I I do have a background in uh in finance and banking originally. Started my own company, a peer-to-peer lending platform 13 years ago. And now two years ago started to get back into entrepreneurship after we have sold the first company. Um but wanted to

basically finance it myself in the beginning and start with advisory and consulting services. And with time when I advised a couple of uh banking clients and and pension funds I realized that Bitcoin back lending has a has a huge potential because there is access to cheap capital from from banks and there's clear market demand. So, so we