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The P2P marketplace, Paxful has created Africa Fund. This Bitcoin-based initiative will accept donations from the public in a bid to help and sustain these important charitable organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-5-6 19:10 | |
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Before the world was shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter's Jack Dorsey had visited the continent of Africa and confidently proclaimed that Africa will define the future of Bitcoin. In lightThe post Kenya's Bitcoin interest represents a mere fraction of Africa's total engagement appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-4-16 20:30 | |
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With an average growth rate of over 8,7%, the lottery market is arguably one of the fastest expanding industries in the world. In Africa, the interest in lotteries has been rising tremendously, leading to a boom in that segment with over 15% yearly increase.
2020-3-18 14:00 | |
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Even as the rest of the world labored through the first month of the new decade enshrouded beneath louring apocalyptic clouds – a world war seemed briefly imminent, half of Australia turned to ashes, flash floods ravaged East Africa and the most virulent virus since the Spanish flu broke out – Bitcoin marched on impregnably […]
2020-2-7 01:06 | |
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Blockchain-based governance could lead the way towards better business and political practices around the world, says investor Akin Sawyerr.
2020-1-17 23:36 | |
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Africa’s growing population, it’s economic potential, the significant shifts in the continent’s energy production: How soon Africa will become the world’s new blockchain hub?
2020-1-16 06:15 | |
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Ripple's XRP to be used for cross-border payments in different world regions by TransferGo
2019-11-26 08:59 | |
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We spoke to Luno and BitPesa about why African countries like Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana now lead the world in Google searches for Bitcoin. The post Why African Countries Lead in Bitcoin Searches and What It Means for Adoption appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-29 19:10 | |
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in general, continue to thrive in South Africa even as such interest comes with a multitude of scams and fraudulent investment schemes. The country even ranks second in the world for bitcoin searches according to Google Trends.
2019-10-21 13:00 | |
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Ripple is an ever-expanding company, owning it's own cryptocurrency, XRP. The cryptocurrency is considered one of the most prominent ones in the world, standing right next to Ethereum and Bitcoin. Xago, a South African based company, will use the RippleNet network with the aim of increasing XRP liquidity within South Africa. This is yet another […]
2019-10-10 16:38 | |
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Africa is a strange place. It is a place of third-world culture and first world innovations all coming together in a weird melting pot. Relatively recently, this melting pot added cryptocurrencies to the mix.
2019-10-1 16:46 | |
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According to Binance Research, relative search trends of the term “Bitcoin” have been shifting from west to east since 2011, and have now reached Africa. Binance highlights Bitcoin popularity on Google Search The world’s largest digital asset, Bitcoin, has always been synonymous with cryptocurrencies.
2019-9-27 09:56 | |
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Can blockchain technology help the African continent bridge its developmental gap with the rest of the world?
2019-9-16 22:26 | |
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Ever since Facebook announced its plans to launch its own cryptocurrency, the world’s regulatory and financial space hasn’t been the same. However, the news cycle about Libra was soon overtaken by lawmakers and regulatory bodies voicing their grave concerns about the same, while also highlighting Facebook’s own problematic history.
2019-8-21 20:30 | |
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MERJ Exchange Ltd. , a stock exchange operator in Seychelles, East Africa is about to overtake its competitors by launching the world’s first regulated security token powered by blockchain technology.
2019-8-3 19:00 | |
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Gold bug Peter Schiff will be “kicking himself forever” if he turns out to be even 1% wrong about Bitcoin. That was the conclusion from Anthony ‘Pomp’ Pompliano, co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital and a serial Bitcoin proponent, during the cryptocurrency world’s latest public showdown on July 31.
2019-8-1 11:04 | |
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With a Free Trade Deal, Ripple and xRapid could be of use for African countries in ECOWAS. With collaboration, XRP can be a liquidity provider. The post With A Free Trade Deal, Ripple and xRapid Can Change Africa’s Fortunes appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-7-18 16:00 | |
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These are very interesting times for Bitcoin, which evidently remains the world’s leading cryptocurrency. Despite a price revival of some sorts, it now appears yet another service provider is ending BTC support altogether.
2019-7-17 00:00 | |
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Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the African continent. Through Bitcoin, millions of unbanked Africans will have access to financial services. These and many more such statements exist across the internet.
2019-6-1 21:48 | |
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There has been a lot of volatility experienced in the regulatory atmosphere over the last year around the world. However, Ripple recently gave an update to their customers about the Ripple Regional event, which was based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
2019-5-30 01:22 | |
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Last night, Reuters broke the news that Google, in response to a government order, was cutting ties with Chinese technology conglomerate Huawei. While the order is live, future devices from the company won’t have access to Google’s proprietary software – like Maps, the Google Play Store, and more.
2019-5-20 12:51 | |
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The demand for blockchain developers is rising in tandem with how important this technology is becoming, and most major world sectors are looking to actively recruit developers with blockchain expertise.
2019-4-29 13:31 | |
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Bulk Trader is a Blockchain powered Online Marketplace Platform dedicated to B2B sales and services. Bulk Trader is a unique hyperlocal ecommerce platform with creative digital marketing solutions for accredited vendors & buyers for goods in bulk.
2019-4-21 11:03 | |
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Charles Hoskinson is on a charm offensive. In the run-up to this months’ summit in Miami, the IOHK founder is crisscrossing the world, from Africa to Athens and America. When I met him last week, he seemed to have spent more time in the air than he had on the ground.
2019-4-2 20:18 | |
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Bitcoin Confirmed as the National Reserve Currency of Wakanda Wakanda, a small country in the North Eastern part of Africa, has dazed the rest of the world with its recent announcement where it declared that Bitcoin (BTC) is now the official currency in the nation.
2019-4-1 18:29 | |
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A recent Hootsuite study revealed that South Africa ranks first in the world for the highest percentage of internet users who own cryptocurrencies. The social media management firm conducted the global survey in partnership with London-based WeAreSocial.
2019-3-24 23:24 | |
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Blockstream has launched its satellite messaging application programming interface (API) on mainnet. Essentially, this means users can now broadcast data via the company’s satellite network and pay with Lightning payments.
2019-3-14 22:15 | |
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Blockstream has launched its satellite messaging application programming interface (API) on mainnet. Essentially, this means users can now broadcast data via the company’s satellite network and pay with Lightning payments.
2019-3-14 22:15 | |
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For much of the past 75 years or thereabouts, the status of Saudi Arabia as the world’s undisputed energy hegemon has been taken for granted, with the kingdom exporting roughly 7 million barrels of oil per day, making it by far the world’s largest oil producer and one of the wealthiest countries on the planet.
2019-3-12 16:04 | |
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Emaar, the world’s biggest property company outside of China, developers of the world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa and the biggest company in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with $7.
2019-3-11 19:08 | |
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Nearly one and a half years ago when Alyssa Milano asked women to click MeToo on their social media platforms, the #MeToo movement was born. Since then millions of women have indicated through social media that they too have been victims of sexual harassment or assault.
2019-3-11 18:36 | |
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A poor and densely populated country stuck at number 137 worldwide in the economic prosperity rankings, with a per capita GDP of just about $2,000 – this would be the perfect proving ground to show once and for all that left wing economics can successfully turn the fortunes of a struggling people around, and give the world an alternative to its failing capitalist system.
2019-3-11 15:00 | |
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For many of the unconverted in the so-called developed world, Bitcoin is seen as something for speculators at best and criminals at worst. However, as the highly respected Bitcoin evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos argues, one of the most revolutionary adoption cases for Bitcoin won’t be in the United States, UK, or Australia.
2019-3-7 02:00 | |
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The challenge of making and receiving payments in Africa has been widely documented. The continent has the world’s highest remittance fees, and payments between different countries aren’t any easier.
2019-3-5 22:55 | |
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Africa’s most populated country and the world’s 26th largest economy is heading for a meltdown as a direct result of envy politics. It was an election between a multimillionaire pro-business candidate seen as part of the establishment and a self-proclaimed hero of the masses who railed against corrupt elites and promised to fight for the little guy.
2019-3-3 10:55 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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Foldable displays and 5G are the buzzwords that dominated this year’s Mobile World Congress. That said, the phone that most impressed me was a budget handset aimed at bridging the vast digital chasm between the developed world and the developing world.
2019-2-26 16:30 | |
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On February 21, 2019, peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful announced a partnership with trading platform BitMart for the purpose of vastly increasing the latter’s liquidity and scalability.
2019-2-23 00:36 | |
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Paxful CEO Ray Youssef plans on building 100 schools in Africa. Two schools have already been built in Rwanda, while a third is currently in development. Paxful is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace that directly connects those looking to buy with those looking to sell, with a special focus on the unbanked and underserved world.
2019-2-18 03:00 | |
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There are more than 4,000 bitcoin automated teller machines (ATMs) in the world, but only just about 10 (or 0.2 percent) of these are in Africa. In a continent widely touted as the next big growth region for cryptocurrency, could it be that the story of Africa’s growth isn’t as real as many “Africa rising” […] The post High Cost Slows Down Bitcoin ATM Growth in Africa appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-2-15 14:27 | |
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The crypto winter that started toward the end of last year doesn’t appear to be showing signs of slowing down. Digital assets like bitcoin lost more than 80 percent of their value while the overall crypto market cap shrunk from over $600 billion in January 2018 to less than $138 billion in December 2018.
2019-2-15 20:17 | |
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In the Western world, many people look at cryptocurrencies as an investment, and obsess over their price movements. In Africa, however, cryptos are much more than an investment asset class: they are transforming lives, in the financial services sector and beyond.
2019-2-9 19:34 | |
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Mpumalanga police in South Africa recently arrested two men alleged to be responsible for the kidnapping of a teenager boy in Witbank City and a 13-year-old girl in Witbank. According to the police, the kidnapping team asked the victims’ relatives for a reward in Bitcoin in exchange for the young victims’ lives.
2019-1-20 09:16 | |
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A lot happened in the world of paleontology in 2018. Some of the big events included some major fossil finds, a new understanding of our reptile ancestors and a major controversy whose outcome could rewrite human history.
2019-1-18 18:20 | |
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GRIC is going to disrupt and transform agriculture and farming practice with the launch of a smart blockchain based GRIC Project for agriculture, with a particular focus on Africa. It will have positive impact on the overall cryptocurrency market as well.
2019-1-17 17:05 | |
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South Africa May De-anonymize Bitcoin Per an article from Business Insider’s South Africa-based branch, the Reserve Bank (Sarb) will be releasing a “policy paper” regarding Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader crypto ecosystem in the coming months.
2019-1-17 06:04 | |
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After a holiday hiatus, Ran NeuNer, the founder of OnChain Capital and the host of CNBC Africa’s “Crypto Trader” segment, brought on a number of leading crypto investors, who all did their best to forecast where Bitcoin (BTC) and this industry would be heading next.
2019-1-14 03:30 | |
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Bitcoin Price “Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better” Vinny Lingham, CEO of Civic, a blockchain startup focused on facilitating a so-called “Secure Identity Ecosystem,” recently sat down with CoinTelegraph for the outlet’s “Hodler’s Digest” weekly report.
2019-1-9 04:00 | |
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The South African government established a group of specialists to investigate digital currency and blockchain technology to devise a regulatory framework for the emerging industry Finding the Appropriate Regulatory Framework Following many of the governments around the world, South Africa has recently gathered a working group to research digital currencies and crypto assets to establish suitable guidelines reported Business Live,.
2019-1-5 02:00 | |
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India’s RBI wants BRICS to link CBDCs like the e-rupee and digital yuan by 2026, creating a shared rail for trade and tourism that bypasses dollar-based systems. The Reserve Bank of India has proposed a plan to interconnect the central…
Crypto exchanges must now track user location and identity more rigorously as India steps up efforts to bring digital assets under formal oversight.
Regulators warn that decentralized and offshore crypto activity could outpace India’s enforcement capabilities.
India’s ED raided 21 sites tied to 4th Bloc Consultants, alleging a decade-long fake crypto-platform Ponzi that laundered funds via wallets, shell firms, hawala and foreign accounts. India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted coordinated raids at 21 locations across Karnataka, Maharashtra…
India’s CCI clears Coinbase’s minority stake in CoinDCX, cementing the US exchange’s return to India and strengthening the local platform’s position in a top crypto adoption market. India’s antitrust regulator approved Coinbase Global Inc.
India’s cryptocurrency market is undergoing a significant geographical and demographic shift, with non-metro regions emerging as the primary drivers of adoption and investment. According to the CoinSwitch Annual Report 2025, titled India’s Crypto Portfolio: How India Invests, the centre of gravity for crypto activity has moved decisively beyond major metropolitan areas, reflecting a broader and […]