Is Bitcoin Suisse a scam?
Wikilix independent safety report
No, this is not the real Bitcoin Suisse, and the website at bicoinsuisses.com shows the hallmarks of a scam: it copied the name of the genuine Swiss firm Bitcoin Suisse AG, ran a fake trading platfor…
Risk scorecard · each area scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst)
Broker Summary
What Wikilix has recorded about Bitcoin Suisse: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.
Bitcoin Suisse Broker Overview
Bitcoin Suisse is presented as a foreign exchange and contract for difference operation registered in the United Kingdom, with bicoinsuisses.com given as its website. Our research could not confirm any part of that description. No company of this name appears on the United Kingdom register, no financial services licence could be established for it in any jurisdiction, and the website does not resolve. The name itself corresponds to Bitcoin Suisse AG, an unrelated Swiss company.
Bitcoin Suisse Regulation and License
No supervising authority and no licence number could be established for this operation. There is accordingly no regulator responsible for it, no permission to hold client money and no compensation scheme standing behind it.
The United Kingdom registration the operation claims does not exist. A search of the Companies House register for any company whose name contains Bitcoin Suisse returns no results, while 411 companies with Bitcoin in their names sit on the same register. The Edinburgh address attached to the operation, 30 Lothian Road, is Standard Life House, an office occupied by Standard Life and abrdn group companies under postcode EH1 2DH rather than the EH1 2EP quoted.
Is Bitcoin Suisse Regulated?
No. Bitcoin Suisse holds no confirmed financial regulation of any kind, and no licence number is put forward that a client could check. It should be treated as an unregulated operation, which means there is no authority to complain to and no protected route to recover a deposit.
Is Bitcoin Suisse Safe?
The evidence points away from safety. The operating company cannot be found on the register of the country it claims, the business address belongs to an unconnected financial institution, and the support email address put forward for it sits on a different domain from the website itself. The Bitcoin Suisse name belongs to Bitcoin Suisse AG, a company registered in Zug, Switzerland under CHE472481853 and on record since 2013, which has no connection to any United Kingdom entity of that name. Because bicoinsuisses.com does not resolve, anyone holding a balance has no published route to reach the operator or request a withdrawal.
Bitcoin Suisse Review and Assessment
Bitcoin Suisse is better understood as an appropriation of an established brand than as a broker to be compared on price or platform. No trading conditions, account types, platforms or funding methods are published, and there is nothing to assess commercially while the underlying company cannot be shown to exist at all. The decisive consideration before sending money is the plainest one: there is no licensed entity to send it to.
Regulatory Licenses
We have not confirmed any regulation for Bitcoin Suisse. Money deposited with an unregulated broker is protected only by the company itself.
Trading with an unregulated broker puts your deposit at risk.
No regulation
We have not confirmed any regulation for Bitcoin Suisse. An unregulated broker is not supervised by a financial authority, and money you deposit is protected only by the company itself.
What this means for you
- No compensation scheme covers your funds.
- No regulator to escalate a complaint to.
- No audit of how client money is held.
Company Registration
Bitcoin Suisse names Bitcoin Suisse as the operating company. We could not confirm that registration on the registry.
- Legal entity
- Bitcoin Suisse
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom
- Registry
- UK Companies House
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Bitcoin Suisse
This recordUnited KingdomWikilix score 0.0RegulationSuspicious CloneMax leverageNot recordedPlatformsNot recordedLicencesNot recordedHCFX
United Kingdom · since 2018· Hamilton Court Foreign Exchange LimitedWikilix score 0.0RegulationNo RegulationMax leverageNot recordedPlatformsNot recordedLicencesNot recorded
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Bitcoin Suisse
Treat the funds as at serious risk and act promptly. Stop sending further money, including any payment presented as a fee, tax or release charge needed to free a withdrawal. Gather your transaction records and correspondence, raise a chargeback or recall with your bank or card issuer as quickly as you can, and report the matter to the financial regulator and police service where you live.
There is no verified contact route. The street address put forward, 30 Lothian Road in Edinburgh, is Standard Life House and is occupied by unconnected companies, and the support email address given sits on a different domain from the stated website. Neither should be treated as a way to reach this operator.
No country policy could be established. The operation publishes no terms, no restricted countries page and no registration form that would show which jurisdictions it onboards. We have deliberately recorded no country restrictions rather than imply it accepts everyone.
No leverage figure is published. The operation states no maximum leverage, no margin requirements and no stop out level. Any leverage figure quoted for this name elsewhere is not something we were able to source.
No. The address on record, bicoinsuisses.com, does not resolve, and neither the plain nor the secure form of it returns a page. A trading site that has gone offline while client balances may still be outstanding is a serious warning sign.
No withdrawal method is published, and there is currently no working route to request one. The operation lists no payment channels, no fees, no processing times and no limits. Since its website no longer resolves, a client holding a balance has no published means of contacting the operator at all.
None are published. No MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader or proprietary platform is named on the record, and no download link or server name exists for it. There is no evidence that a trading platform was ever offered under this name.
No minimum deposit is published. The operation sets out no trading conditions of any kind, so there is no figure to quote. A broker that does not publish what it costs to open an account is not one a client can assess before funding it.
No. A search of the Companies House register for any company whose name contains Bitcoin Suisse returns no results. For comparison, 411 companies with Bitcoin in their names do appear on that register, so the nil result reflects the company's absence rather than a limitation of the search.
No. Bitcoin Suisse AG is a company registered in Zug, Switzerland under CHE472481853 and on record since 2013, confirmed on the Global LEI record. The operation reviewed here claims United Kingdom registration and has no connection to that Swiss company. The shared name should not be read as a shared identity.
No owner or operating company is established anywhere on the record. The name Bitcoin Suisse is put forward as the company itself, but no entity of that name exists on the United Kingdom register where it claims to be registered. There is therefore no identifiable person or company standing behind it.
The evidence points strongly that way, and we rate it as a likely scam rather than a broker. The company it claims to be does not appear on the United Kingdom register, the business address it gives belongs to unconnected companies, and it holds no licence. We stop short of calling it confirmed because the site is no longer reachable, so we could not observe it soliciting deposits directly.
No. No supervising authority and no licence number could be established for Bitcoin Suisse in any jurisdiction. That means there is no regulator responsible for the operation, no permission for it to hold client money, and no compensation scheme behind it.
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