2019-11-18 14:05 |
Nigerian fintech Opay — founded by crypto-supporting web browser Opera — has raised $120 million in series B funding to scale its payments solution across Africa
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While interest in Bitcoin across China may be picking up again, the last 12 months have been dominated by Africa when it comes to Bitcoin fever. According to Google Trends, Nigeria and South Africa take the number one, and two, spot for searching the term Bitcoin in the last year.
2019-11-5 23:27 | |
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The search interest for bitcoin has made close to a three month high according to Google trends, a website by Google that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across various regions and languages.
2019-10-29 23:13 | |
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The Blockchain Africa Conference is in its 6th year and we are expecting 600+ attendees to attend Africa’s leading blockchain and cryptocurrency conference. Attendees will learn how companies and individuals alike are using this technology, what some of the most interesting use cases and applications are and what regulations are being considered and implemented across […] The post Blockchain Africa Conference 2020 – Blockchain technology is transforming the way we transact and business appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-10-7 07:30 | |
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Huge opportunity to capture the unbanked and underbanked, Jeremy Light XRP as a bridge currency will be a game changer RippleNet is now active in more than 40 countries across 6 continents — from Asia, Africa, North America, South America to Europe — reports international Association of Money Transfers Networks (IAMTN). A non profit organization, […]
2019-8-29 20:03 | |
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[NAIROBI] Esther Mwangi, a 2014 graduate of economics from Kenyatta University in Kenya who wanted to venture into entrepreneurship but had no clear path, started off selling solar panels in coastal parts of the country as she conducted market research on other possible ventures.
2019-7-10 17:27 | |
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For most, Indonesia does not immediately spring to mind as a hub for startup innovation, not least because nearby Singapore has been traditionally known as the “Silicon Valley of Southeast Asia”.
2019-6-21 00:51 | |
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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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“Not a legal tender” is a phrase that we have come across more often in the past 12 months than we ever did in the past. A report published on a local news agency Nyasa Times on May 27, 2019, informed that the Reserve Bank of Malawi has jumped on the bandwagon to declare thatRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-29 19:00 | |
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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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South Africa's VALR exchange is launching March 1, expanding bitcoin access across the continent.
2019-3-1 00:30 | |
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South Africa's VALR exchange is launching March 1, expanding bitcoin access across the continent.
2019-3-1 00:30 | |
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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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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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As expected, January was a quiet month in African tech, but there was just enough news — good and bad — to make a monthly wrap worthwhile. Internet shutdowns were all the rage among governments on the continent in 2018, and the early signs are that is set to continue in 2019.
2019-2-5 15:35 | |
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HashCash Consultants, a California-based distributed ledger technology (DLT) project focused on creating blockchain-based solutions that enable enterprises to move assets and settle payments seamlessly across borders, is now live in South Africa, according to a press release from January 7, 2018.
2019-1-10 23:00 | |
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December is an expensive month for anyone, and tech companies across Africa went on a fundraising spree in advance of the festive period last month. Companies from across the continent, in a variety of sectors, raised funding in December.
2019-1-7 13:33 | |
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While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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Kenyan health services provider Health Land Spa has started taking BTC and other cryptocurrencies as a means of payment with a view to increasing accountability and averting losses. Across East Africa, cryptocurrency acceptance is on the rise, with at least two restaurants in Uganda and Kenya selling food for virtual currencies.
2018-12-11 07:50 | |
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Too often in these monthly wraps we look at the negative side of tech in Africa, usually what governments are doing to milk the sector for all it is worth. Last month, however, we saw the potential for tech on the continent, and how if it is employed in the right way it can have really meaningful impact across a variety of spaces.
2018-12-5 12:01 | |
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On November 2, the African Digital Asset Framework officially kicked off its planned mandate to establish efforts to consolidate blockchain development standards across Africa and beyond. The project was launched under the Pan-African Organization with the goal of building regulated, cross-border blockchain standards that will link Africans at home and those living abroad. With Africa […]
2018-11-5 10:16 | |
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One of the impacts of the rapid, global advancement of digital asset markets has been seasons of volatility and turbulence. This creates a challenging environment for even the most astute investors in terms of managing cryptocurrency portfolios and investment strategies.
2018-10-3 17:37 | |
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London-based ONEm Communications has announced the launch of its mCoin program across Africa. Designed to be a hybrid currency, mCoin is a digital currency that can be transferred over text or through the smartphone app.
2018-9-25 21:26 | |
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Zimbabwean cryptocurrency exchange, Golix, is now active in seven countries across Africa, but it may be sometime before everyone buys into the project. Volume is still very low amid what looks like close competition between old and new exchanges fighting for a small, elite, but steadily growing market.
2018-9-19 22:25 | |
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Cryptocurrency trading has been a big topic and widely accessible across the Western hemisphere and Asia for a few years now, but when looking at market access and possible new interest potential Africa has quite a lot growth potential for the cryptocurrency markets.
2018-9-18 06:00 | |
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Tricia Martinez is a behavioral economist focused on emerging markets. After earning her masters in public policy and behavioral economics from the University of Chicago, Martinez took a one-way flight to Africa, where she founded Wala to address the needs of underserved people across the continent. Wala is a zero-fee finance app that seeks to […]
2018-8-26 19:00 | |
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Following the statement by Saudi Arabia declaring cryptocurrency illegal, the largest crypto exchange in the Middle East and North Africa is working with regulators across the region to develop crypto regulations.
2018-8-20 16:10 | |
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XchangeCoin (XCC) will build a network of retail stores / kiosks that will allow users in Asia and Africa to change crypto into fiat at convenient XchangeCoin locations, options such as changing crypto currency into fiat as well as allowing the customer to send crypto which can be converted to fiat across the country to friends and family.
2018-8-17 17:22 | |
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Bitcoin is slightly down again today to $6,400, but a number of hot-spots are apparently developing across the world as told by local premiums. We recently wrote about South Africa... The post Bitcoin at a Premium in Brazil, Why? appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-8-10 18:42 | |
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ConsenSys, the Ethereum production studio based in the U. S. , launched ConsenSys Ventures last year selecting Kavita Gupta to run two funds of $50 million and $100 million.
2018-8-6 17:40 | |
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Sales for an exclusively African cryptocurrency opened up in August to those with a South African bank account — seemingly capitalizing on virtual currency’s popularity in the nation. Despite growing interest, however, scams and fraud are still rife in the country.
2018-8-5 11:00 | |
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Internet usage in Africa is growing, but not quickly enough for Google, which wants to give it a nudge to boost its user base on the continent. Things came to a head in July in this respect, with the company announcing it was partnering with Kenya’s third largest telecoms firm — Telkom — to launch commercial operations of its internet-beaming balloon project Loon in the East African country.
2018-8-2 14:50 | |
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A survey carried out across South Africa not only shows a thirst for cryptocurrency, it also shows that a number of people are now starting to regret not investing sooner, a feeling that many of us can indeed sympathise with.
2018-7-24 08:00 | |
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There are over 600 million Africans living without electricity despite an abundance of sunshine and hundreds of thousands of solar projects on the drawing board.
2018-7-17 17:41 | |
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When it comes to cryptocurrency, it seems that there are always two sides of the (bit)coin. On the negative side, there’s everything that can go wrong.
2018-7-14 19:30 | |
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Today’s Bitcoin in Brief features several examples of digital coins entering all spheres of life. A leading German auto manufacturer has revealed its cars may soon be fitted with onboard cryptocurrency wallets.
2018-6-16 15:36 | |
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Tens of thousands of traders have been using the bank’s crypto exchange in the UK, a spokesperson said.
Частные криптовалюты провалили тест на фундаментальные финансовые услуги и не задержатся в монетарном пространстве. Такое мнение высказал глава MAS Рави Менон, сообщает Bloomberg. В ходе панельной дискуссии на мероприятии в Гонконге управляющий директор центробанка Сингапура назвал в качестве трех ключевых компонентов будущей денежно-кредитной системы: CBDC; токенизированные банковские обязательства; «хорошо регулируемые» стейблкоины.
Сооснователь и CTO Casa Джеймсон Лопп привел аргументы против теории о том, что биткоин-пионер Хэл Финни был создателем первой криптовалюты Сатоши Накамото. В своем блоге он рассказал о забеге 18 апреля 2009 года в Санта-Барбаре (Калифорния, США).
There are “traps” lying in wait for innovators at the vanguard of fintech and quantum computing, according to researchers.
1 июля обанкротившийся криптокредитор Celsius Network планирует продать альткоины на сумму $215 млн, что станет беспрецедентной ликвидацией активов. Пока криптовалютный рынок пытается перевести дыхание, одна известная компания уже готовится к взрыву, который может эхом прокатиться по коридорам цифровой валюты.
The OCC is replacing its Office of Innovation with a new body that will help it stay on top of fintech developments and emerging risks.
The loss occurred while Alameda Research’s liquidators were attempting to close a borrow position on Aave but instead removed the extra collateral used for the position.