Elon Musk's sudden U-turn regarding Bitcoin on Twitter - which sent prices plummeting by 15% - could be more of a PR stunt than anything else...
Elon Musk announced via Twitter yesterday, 12 May, that Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment for its vehicles...
Gold hit a low of $1,469 in mid-March last year before appreciating to a value of around $2,000 an ounce in August. This was the result of two catalysts...
Fred Razak 19 Apr 2021
Mirror Trading International (MTI) has been unmasked as what was been termed as the world's largest cryptocurrency Ponzi scam...
Wiehann Olivier 13 Apr 2021
The Bitcoin price has surged up to $60,000. There are a few influencing factors that have contributed to this phenomenal rise in the cryptocurrency's fortunes...
Fred Razak 8 Apr 2021
Due to the ever-increasing volume of money transfers across the globe, Remitano, a global escrow-marketplace, has just launched a smart, free, and safe approach for international money transfers...
As cryptocurrencies becomes a mainstream asset class and blockchain technology gains adoption across industries, banking groups will increasingly take on the role of custodians for this growing segment of the market...
Masha Maharaj, 18 Mar 2021
Invictus Capital is launching a graduate programme for students in software development and cryptocurrencies...
One of the greater barriers to investment and adoption of cryptos and blockchain technology lies within the scepticism that surrounds it...
Sean Sanders 26 Feb 2021
While blockchain is not a new technology, its adoption has been slow in Africa. However, the application of this technology here could lead to interesting outcomes...
Musa Kalenga and Samuel Segun 26 Feb 2021
The financial services industry is no exception to the pandemic-driven need to transform to high-quality digital experiences to customers, employees, and partners almost overnight...
Brent Haumann 17 Feb 2021
In the early 1990s, when the internet was still in its infancy, there was some hesitation in adopting this new and unfamiliar technology with limited use in our personal and work lives...
Sean Sanders 11 Feb 2021
This week I catch up with Tilesh Bhaga, creative technologist at Grey Advertising Africa...
Evan-Lee Courie 2 Feb 2021
The AlphaCode Incubate programme provides funding, guidance from performance coaches and a panel of advisory experts, access to AlphaCode's co-working space, and opportunities to apply for further early-stage investment...
Bitcoin has soared again in recent months - along with some of its cryptocurrency peers, such as Ethereum - making this very modern form of investing a very 'hot' topic at the moment...
Wiehann Olivier 26 Jan 2021
This time last year, none of us had any idea of the whole new world that was on its way. One that would include global lockdowns, Zoombombing, covidiots, closed borders and quarantining...
Dominique Collett 25 Jan 2021
Know your customer (KYC) procedures are still a work-in-progress in the cryptocurrency industry. But businesses in this space, though still largely unregulated, need to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) legislation or risk facing punitive measures.
James George 20 Jan 2021
The four themes we expect to find traction during 2021 are coronavirus and the vaccines deployed against it; reflation; a global move toward even tighter regulation; and crypto assets, as opposed to only cryptocurrencies...
Andrew Duvenage, 14 Jan 2021
The Covid19 pandemic has been one of the greatest disruptors in living memory, causing major upheaval across all facets of our everyday life...
Maarten Ackerman 11 Jan 2021
Despite volatile prices during 2020, cryptocurrency has withstood the Covid-19 stress test and emerged with new support from previous naysayers...
Marius Reitz 15 Dec 2020
The cryptocurrency market is still relatively new and it has completely changed the trading landscape. Regulations are still quite lax in the crypto space and it's a particularly volatile commodity...
Daniel Kibel 5 Oct 2020
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is running a free webinar for crypto enthusiasts across South Africa...
Wall Street, the historic headquarters of some of the largest US brokerages and investment banks, however, as Africans we can recreate this and build our own "Wall Street" on the African continent...
Measuring whether a new innovation delivers on its promise is always tricky...
As one of Paxful's brightest young leaders, Tugba Abadan is helping the global next-generation peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin marketplace bring financial inclusion to the underbanked and unbanked...
Evan-Lee Courie 20 Aug 2020
As AI and IoT become a part of our lives e-banking is gaining traction and with that comes an influx of different offerings some good and some bad.
John Lombela 4 Aug 2020
In an age where fake news is a stranger to truth, and truth stranger than fiction, Bronwyn Williams provides insights as to why books and their authors are vital to understanding trends...
Bronwyn Williams 3 Aug 2020
Here are five best Forex brokers in South Africa along with their pros and cons...
Issued by SA Shares 21 Jul 2020
As of 5 May 2020, Tether was the world's most purchased cryptocurrency, with $56.16bn in 24-hour trade volume. However, Tether did not appear in the list of top five cryptocurrencies...
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The world is in the middle of a global pandemic that has resulted in national lockdowns, and a hard reset of society towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 4IR is happening faster than ever before...
Alan Knott-Craig 3 Jun 2020
A few real ways to make money from the comfort of your home...
While the whole world is shaking from negative news, ranging from the pandemic of the coronavirus Covid-19, to numerous disasters in different areas all around the world, to the stock market crashes and the global crisis in general, a silver lining has emerged among the clouds in sunny Panama, and it will probably affect everyone...
With the expansion of a derivatives market, cryptocurrencies had become a great diversification tool, given their low correlation with other asset classes...
Issued by Monetary Library 22 Apr 2020
Paxful highlights 10 women in Africa who are making waves in the rapidly growing blockchain and Bitcoin industries...
Gareth Grobler is a digital currency entrepreneur and founded the cryptocurrency exchange iCE3X in 2013. He is a founding member of the UK Digital Currency Association...
"But it still lacks the user experience, appeal, social acceptance and, most importantly, narrative, that will propel it across the chasm into mainstream adoption..." - Blockchain Africa Conference speaker and fintech entrepreneur Simon Dingle on Bitcoin and its impact on industry...
Jessica Tennant 11 Mar 2020
The industries which are playing the greatest role in transforming the global economy all fall under what is termed the Fourth Industrial Revolution...
Property can be affected by blockchain in many ways, from the provenance of raw materials and transparent recording of alterations to tokenised title deeds...
Ciaran MacDevette 6 Mar 2020
Check Point Research has published its 2020 Cyber Security Report which reveals the key attack vectors and techniques...
Cryptocurrency is still something of an enigma for many investors, but will it become more mainstream as an asset class in 2020?
Marius Reitz 10 Jan 2020
Millennials are responsible for spearheading the rise of socially and environmentally conscious investing...
Daniel Kibel 6 Jan 2020
In 2019, the number of unique malicious objects detected by Kaspersky's web antivirus solution rose - reaching 24,610,126.
Cryptocurrency is a "blink and you'll miss it" type of industry. Here is a look back on what made 2019 a brilliant year for cryptocurrency as well as a little of what to expect in 2020...
Nic Haralambous 24 Dec 2019
In a world moving towards a new financial system, cryptocurrency is becoming more mainstream..
Marius Reitz 11 Dec 2019
Modern society has given significant attention to the promises of the digital economy over the past decade. But it has given little attention to its negative environmental footprint...
Raynold Wonder Alorse 9 Dec 2019
Advertising and promotion in the digital era is becoming a prominent fixture. It might be hard to master, especially in the cryptocurrency sector, as this is still very much a niche that is just now evolving into a mainstream industry...
Craig Lebrau, Issued by Lebrau Press 4 Nov 2019
Blockchain will play a pivotal role in completely transforming the recycling supply chain and making the circular economy a reality...
The latest version of Opera for Android integrates Bitcoin and Tron blockchain support...
While fintech and mobile solutions for money transfers have taken off in Africa, there has been a mixed reaction thus far from governments to the use and regulation of blockchain and cryptocurrency...
Regulations governing the financial services sector are being overhauled. Below is a six-point checklist to ensure you don't fall behind in compliance...
Richard Rattue 8 Jul 2019