Hello, I’m Yves Bennaïm (@ZLOK), a Swiss consultant, writer, and essayist.
After 30+ years of online pioneering, I focus on the study of Bitcoin and its blockchain.
In 2017, I founded 2B4CH, a non-profit think tank I currently chair, focusing on assisting industries and government bodies in understanding the social, financial, and political impacts of Bitcoin, and more generally so-called cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets.
Since 2017, I write the “Bitcoin and its Blockchain“ column in Swiss business magazine Bilan. I am also the author of the “Swindles in the World of Cryptoassets“ column in daily Swiss newspaper Le Temps.
Shortly after their creation, I joined CEN and ISO technical committees for the standardisation of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), where I chair as lead expert for Switzerland.
Deeply interested in ideas worth spreading, I launched and curated TEDxGeneva in 2009 & 2010.
Le Temps newspaper published a portrait (in French), and selected me as one of the personalities shaping French-speaking Switzerland for the 2021 edition of Forum des 100.
I am frequently helping various media navigate and decrypt Bitcoin.