Reuters
The Swiss National Bank remains sceptical about buying bitcoins, Chairman Thomas Jordan said on Friday, despite calls from campaigners to change Swiss law and allow cyptocurrencies to be added to its currency reserves. Buying bitcoin to add to the gold, foreign currencies, bonds and shares the SNB holds in its reserves was not without potential downsides like carbon emissions, Jordan said, pointing to the energy consumption of bitcoin mining and transactions. A campaign group wants the SNB to hold part of its currency reserves in bitcoin, and to put the issue to a referendum.