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Open in the appOn October 31st, the Bitcoin Whitepaper turns 18, comes of age. We're celebrating it with a live podcast in the cinema, together with Luzerner Kantonalbank. This is already the second edition, the first sold out. On stage🎙️ Niko Jilch, one of the best-known Bitcoin podcasters in… On October 31st, the Bitcoin Whitepaper turns 18, comes of age. We're celebrating it with a live podcast in the cinema, together with Luzerner Kantonalbank. This is already the second edition, the first sold out. On stage🎙️ Niko Jilch, one of the best-known Bitcoin podcasters in the German-speaking world Serge Kaulitz, responsible for Digital Assets at Luzerner Kantonalbank Adrian Fritz, Chief Investment Strategist at 21Shares Bitcoin comes of age🎂 In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto sent his whitepaper to a cryptography mailing list. Only few took it seriously back then. Today institutional investors buy Bitcoin, banks offer it to their customers, and billions are invested in Bitcoin financial products. Bitcoin reached a trillion dollar market capitalization in around twelve years. Google took 21 years to do it, Amazon 24 and Microsoft 44. We only know most asset classes from textbooks. With this one, we're sitting in the front row. The evening's topics🔍 An asset class that emerges in reverse Usually with a new asset class, the professionals come first, and retail investors arrive years later. With Bitcoin it was exactly the opposite. Who will be the buyers of tomorrow, and when will Swiss pension funds enter the market? Bear market or trend reversal? The last crash was milder than all before it. Has Bitcoin matured, or did we just get lucky? And is the low point already behind us? What is Bitcoin worth? No dividend, no cash flow, no management. How do you value something like that, and has the risk profile really changed? The guests Niko Jilch: The Viennese is host of «Was Bitcoin bringt», one of the most-listened-to Bitcoin podcasts in the German-speaking world. He rarely looks at Bitcoin just as an investment, but almost always as a question about money, history and politics. Serge Kaulitz: Serge heads Digital Asset Services at Luzerner Kantonalbank and brought Bitcoin to their offering. He has stories to tell…