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This month’s Africa Bitcoin Conference underscored the need for Bitcoin on the continent and the progress of grassroots projects there. origin »
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Set to grow into an economic powerhouse over the next few decades, Africa will benefit greatly from investment into Bitcoin education.
2022-7-30 01:00 | |
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The adoption of Bitcoin in Africa has swelled immensely over the past year, making it the third fastest-growing Bitcoin economy globally. BTC adoption up by 1200% in Africa A report produced by Chainalysis estimated the growth to be over 1,200%, which means there has been an increase in Bitcoin activities carried out by retail investors […] The post Data: Bitcoin (BTC) adoption grows 1,200% in Africa appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-9-15 16:00 | |
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The country with the largest population in Africa seems to be housing a large number of residents whose interest in cryptocurrencies is comparable to none. The giant of Africa seems to be on its way to becoming the giant of Bitcoin in Africa, as Nigeria ranks number one in the search rate of Bitcoin by […]
2021-4-27 15:26 | |
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A combination of factors makes South Africa a notable hotbed for Bitcoin adoption, even among a region that has embraced BTC.
2021-3-17 00:04 | |
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Africa has proven to be a hotbed of adoption for Bitcoin in 2020. But what fueled this growth? And what will next year look like? The post How The Use Of Bitcoin In Africa Continued To Grow In 2020 appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-12-23 22:00 | |
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One of the biggest peer to peer bitcoin exchange with a network of kiosks across the world is building schools in Africa funded with bitcoin. “The #BuiltWithBitcoin initiative is a...
2020-12-19 17:27 | |
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Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading volume hits new all-time highs in Africa
2020-7-14 17:35 | |
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On Friday, May 22, a new Tamarin Gerriety-shot documentary, Banking on Africa: The Bitcoin Revolution, will launch on Amazon Prime. The film depicts the full extent of crypto adoption in Africa and how digital currencies, specifically Bitcoin, are shaping lives in the region.
2020-5-21 01:00 | |
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Developing markets have a lot to gain from many of Bitcoin's use cases. This narrative has played out predominantly in several parts of Africa and Latina America, especially over the last few years.
2020-4-26 23:30 | |
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Twitter CEO sees big Bitcoin demand from Africa in the future
2019-11-28 12:01 | |
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Twitter CEO in Africa Dorsey is in Africa and specifically in Ghana. That is after spending several days in Nigeria, where he met with entrepreneurs majoring in technology. His journey to both countries included small Bitcoin meetups with innovators and founders of startups that look to push for the adoption of Bitcoin in both countries. […]
2019-11-13 19:31 | |
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Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter, is attending Bitcoin meetups in Sub-Saharan Africa to discuss the adoption of Bitcoin payments in Ghana and Nigeria.
2019-11-13 19:11 | |
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Bitcoin is a Gift To Change Humanity Stafford Masie, the general manager of WeWork South Africa and former CEO of Google Africa, has recently talked about Bitcoin. According to her, BTC will certainly change the future of mankind more than any innovation that appeared before it. She affirmed that only Bitcoin could be used as […]
2019-10-19 00:53 | |
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Luno, a bitcoin exchange with a significant presence in Africa, answers questions about the growing adoption and changing perception there. The post Bitcoin in Africa: Offering ‘New and Better Ways of Exchanging Value’ appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-9-26 18:34 | |
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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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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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SBI Remit and BitPesa are collaborating to enable easy money transfer services between Japan and several African countries. The partnership sees the Bitcoin blockchain’s utilization as an enterprise remittance vehicle.
2018-9-25 21:00 | |
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SBI Remit and BitPesa have partnered to enable faster and cheaper money transactions between Japan and Africa using the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain.
2018-9-26 19:09 | |
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Bitcoin is pushing the boundaries of economic change in Africa. In East Africa, a new deal between digital currency exchange Bitpesa and a Japanese firm shows Kenyans are using bitcoin to pay for used Japanese cars, cosmetics and electrical gadgets.
2018-9-26 17:45 | |
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Japanese Giant SBI Remit Allows Customers to Send Money To Africa Using Bitcoin’s Blockchain Bitcoin continues its expansion all over the world. This time, the Japanese money transfer company SBI Remit will allow over half a million customers to send money to Africa using Bitcoin.
2018-9-24 23:00 | |
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The dominance of the United States dollar as a settlement currency in Africa is being challenged by emerging payment methods in financial technology and by native African fiat currencies. In the four years to 2017, fewer people in the continent of 1.
2018-9-24 21:33 | |
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Since the rise of cryptocurrencies, they have been looked at as a way not only to maintain trade but also to keep assets out of harm’s way. That has been especially true in highly conflict-prone countries and places with unstable economies.
2018-9-21 00:49 | |
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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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Bitcoin exchange company Luno today announced the launch of its new African regional headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa. Luno was the first crypto company to operate in Africa, with a presence in Nigeria and Cape Town, in.
2018-9-17 18:42 | |
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Africa is often lauded as the next big thing for cryptocurrency adoption and development. But could poor internet access and connectivity slow down progress? A new report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) shows that it will cost $450 billion to connect 1.
2018-9-15 06:15 | |
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Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.
2018-9-15 21:50 | |
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Veteran business journalist Jeffrey Gogo has joined the news desk at Bitcoin. com. Regular readers count on news. Bitcoin. com to bring them coverage from all over the world, and that world now extends to Africa – Zimbabwe to be exact.
2018-9-10 08:55 | |
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In today’s edition of The Daily we feature an interesting art exhibition which merges augmented reality technology with oil paintings inspired by Bitcoin and cryptocurrency culture. We also cover updates about the Bitmain IPO, ASX’s “blockchain” deployment and Alexander Vinnik’s extradition case.
2018-9-6 16:05 | |
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Africa has steadily accelerated the switch to modern technologies. But can a continent facing a crisis with antiquated banking technologies, low rate of financial inclusion, poor confidence in the banking system, and high remittance costs become the new battleground for blockchain or cryptocurrency-centred settlements? Also read: Square’s Big Week: Crypto Patent, Shares Leap, and Lightning […] The post Africa and its Antiquated Banking: Cryptocurrencies The Solution? appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-9-5 05:55 | |
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Africa has steadily accelerated the switch to modern technologies. But can a continent facing a crisis with antiquated banking technologies, low rate of financial inclusion, poor confidence in the banking system, and high remittance costs become the new battleground for blockchain and cryptocurrency? Also read: Square’s Big Week: Crypto Patent, Shares Leap, and Lightning Plug […] The post Africa and its Antiquated Banking: Bitcoin The Solution? appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-9-6 05:55 | |
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As many countries in South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe are in the midst of an economic crisis, depreciating national currencies don’t come as a surprise. What did come as a shock was the fact that bitcoin would be the first to challenge the stability of fiat currencies, outperforming three different national currencies in 2018, as research from Pension Partners...The post %%POSTLINK%% appeared first on %%BLOGLINK%%.
2018-9-5 03:00 | |
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Africa is a market of over 1. 2 billion consumers, with fast growing developing economies and hundreds of millions of unbanked people. As such, the continent offers plenty of opportunities for new crypto ventures and Binance is eager to tap this market.
2018-9-4 18:05 | |
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Although one of the primary goals of Bitcoin is to create a currency that is borderless and decentralized, a recurring concern is the way (other than mining) that we are able to actually acquire it and other cryptocurrencies.
2018-9-1 21:31 | |
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Before Bitcoin was regarded as the hot new investment on the block (pun intended), the idea of decentralized payments… The post Top Cryptocurrency Solutions for the Middle East and Africa appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-8-27 14:00 | |
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The electoral agency of Kenya is planning to utilize blockchain technology with an intention to bring greater transparency and integrity to voting. East Africa’s largest economy also wants the technology to be used to enable presidential candidates to securely access the results.
2018-8-25 16:29 | |
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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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Despite the mainstream media’s stream-of-bad-news schedule, cryptocurrency has a long and proud tradition of philanthropy. The Pineapple Fund, which closed in early May, donated $55m in bitcoin to a wide variety of charitable causes, including water sanitation in Africa and improving internet privacy levels.
2018-8-17 18:52 | |
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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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A report published by the pan-African bank, Ecobank Transnational Inc. , has found that despite cryptocurrencies exerting a notable presence in each of the 36 African countries in which the company operates, only South Africa and Swaziland have adopted a “generally favorable and permissive [regulatory] stance” pertaining to cryptocurrencies.
2018-8-10 10:25 | |
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AltCoinTrader Crypto Exchange Adds Dollar-Linked Option to Reduce Bitcoin Premium AltCoinTrader, a Johannesburg-based cryptocurrency exchange, has added a new bitcoin product, linking the US dollar to the platform in an effort to drive down bitcoin’s premium in South Africa’s market as well as attract more foreign investors. According to a partner at AltCoinTrader, Richard de […]
2018-8-6 21:37 | |
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South Africa is seeing increasing interest in bitcoin with the middle income nation of nearly 60 million people toping the country ranking of Google searches for bitcoin. This relatively higher. .
2018-8-6 18:05 | |
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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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With the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declining the Winklevoss ETF and the decision on the CBOE and VanEck-Solid ETF product waiting for approval, the conversations surrounding the feasibility of crypto derivatives have started to fade away.
2018-8-5 21:30 | |
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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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Hester Peirce, an SEC Commissioner, has received a great deal of attention lately for her comments concerning cryptocurrency and her dissent in the SEC’s denial of Winklevoss’s ETF. Here is the full video of the entire hour long interview conducted by CNBC Africa's Crypto Trader show Ran NeuNer: SEC commissioner @HesterPeirce talks about why she […]
2018-8-2 01:26 | |
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Despite the SEC declining the Winklevoss Twins’ ETF proposal, the discussion of such a fund is still a hot topic within the cryptocurrency community. CNBC Africa’s “Crypto Trader” show, hosted by Ran NeuNer of OnChain Capital, recently spoke with BitMEX’s CEO regarding what an ETF means for this nascent industry.
2018-8-2 00:54 | |
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International trade, people without identity and financial exclusion are global development areas that stand to be radically improved with blockchain technology, according to Michelle Chivunga, regional advisor for the British Blockchain Association.
2018-7-31 19:50 | |
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In an interview with CNBC Africa, Dr. Craig Wright – Chief Scientist at nChain was asked if the crypto market is reaching global saturation limits. The question was absurd and showed that the host wasn’t prepared to interview Wright.
2018-7-30 16:58 | |
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More and more investors in Africa are hopping on the Bitcoin bandwagon. However, they need to ensure that they are aware of what decentralization actually means when it comes to investing. Africa is a continent rich in diversity, natural resources, beautiful landscapes, and common occurrences of political turmoil.
2018-7-28 14:00 | |
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Bitget saw a 683% increase in Gen Z users in November, marking a shift in crypto demographics following Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. Gen Z’s share of new users on the crypto exchange jumped from 26.
What are the key trends highlighted by the global crypto adoption index, and how do they reflect crypto’s role in global economic shifts? The global crypto adoption index is an essential tool for understanding how well different countries are adopting…
Chanalysis submitted a Polkadot governance proposal on April 18 that could lead to a $10 million partnership. The services provided by Chainalysis will include monitoring and tracing the DOT token activities on the Relay Chain, ensuring visibility of any potentially risky on-chain actions to regulators and institutional entities.
Banking giant HSBC is set to introduce digital asset custody services for tokenized securities such as bonds on the blockchain. The bank expects to go live with the service in 2024. The service is geared toward institutional investors and will continue expanding the lender’s offerings in the digital asset realm.
Advocates for the Bitcoin Lightning Network and decentralized protocol Nostr funded Kweks’ Kilimanjaro climb.
Polygon Labs announced on Sept. 29 that it has added Google Cloud to the decentralized group of validators powering its proof-of-stake Network. Polygon said in its statement that Google Cloud is now among more than 100 validators who secure the Polygon PoS Network, a network that originally operated under the name Matic Network and which […] The post Polygon adds Google Cloud to its validator set appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Pudgy Penguins has announced a merchandising deal with retail giant Walmart that will introduce its IP to the megastore’s shelves in over 2,000 stores. The Pudgy Toys—plush collectibles that will now be sold alongside legacy brands in Walmart’s brick-and-mortar stores—will offer access Pudgy World, a digital social experience on zkSync Era.