Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Regulations governing tokenized deposits and crypto assets are likely to become effective on Jan. 1, 2025, a senior fintech analyst at the South African central bank has revealed. However, according to the analyst, regulators are still trying to unde...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
How this 26-year-old went from running bitcoin trading desks in Taco Bells to creating the largest crypto exchange in Africa& & CNBC
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Eche Emole, the co-founder of Afropolitan, explains how the nation-state experiment has failed, especially in Africa, and how blockchain can be used to reimagine a new state....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
African countries’ debts totaling more than $20 billion were written off in the past year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 20. Putin also revealed that trade between Russia and Africa had nearly reached $18 billion by the end of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
One of Africa’s fintech giants, Chipper Cash, is said to be weighing the possibility of selling the business or bringing in new investors. According to the CEO of the FTX and Silicon Valley Bank-backed fintech startup, Chipper Cash had insignif...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Africa-focused venture capital (VC) firm, Echovc, has launched a fund that seeks to support blockchain startups on the continent. While global blockchain funding has been on a decline over the past year, Echovc founder Eghosa Omoigui claimed that...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in South Africa has rejected former Monero lead maintainer Riccardo Spagni’s bid to have it declare his extradition from the United States to South Africa illegal. In its ruling, the Supreme Court of Appeal ins...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Just a few weeks after tapping its best exchange rate versus the greenback in 2023, the South African rand fell to a new 2023 low of 18.636 local currency units for every dollar on March 7. South Africa’s power shortages as well as the country&...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
Bitcoin plunges under $20,000 to its lowest point in 2 months as Silvergate blow-up and bank fears rattle risk assets& & Business Insider Africa
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Cassava Network’s recent v3 product launch allows Africa’s Web2 users to get onboarded to Web3 while earning rewards and increasing their income. Cassava Network — an...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago
The news is kind of shocking that people are really adopting crypto in Africa. People are getting more aware of this technology and a new era of digital currency. submitted by /u/coinremitter [link] [comments]
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to an analysis of Google searches by Leverage Trading, Nigeria is the “second-highest country in the world for searches related to crypto leverage.” Along with South Africa and Ghana, the West African nation also dominates searc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Users from Liberia, Sierra Leone and more can now directly utilize their local currencies to buy and sell bitcoin through Binance P2P.Cryptocurrency platform Binance has announced that its peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace will now support more African...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago
I have a friend in Tanzania I had been utilizing localbitcoins to be able to send bitcoin she was able to sell and redeem for local currency. This was both much quicker and less expensive than using the usual moneygram type services. We also usually...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In a move seen as a major setback for South Africa, the international financial watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force, announced on Feb. 24 that it had added the country to its “grey list.” Getting grey-listed by the financial watchdo...