Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs | The Economist

A banking centre seeks to reinvent itself - Tales from the crypto-nation

ON A clear day, sunset over Lake Zug is magnificent. Snow-dusted mountains cut through the orange glow above and are mirrored in the lake below. “Zug is our spiritual home,” says Jeremy Epstein, from Washington, DC, who has just taken 40 foreigners to tour the small Swiss town south of Zurich.