Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
According to local media, leading South African financial institution FNB is denying allegations of a banking relationship with the recently collapsed crypto investment company, Africrypt. FNB also insists it did not enable the investment company&rsq...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
As part of an initiative that seeks to build the crypto and blockchain space talent base, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO1), a community-led protocol, will be holding a major collaborative computer programming or a hackathon. Organizer...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
On the latest Project Veritas video Ivory Hecker leaks video conversations between her and her boss, Lee Meier, Assistant News Director. In one of the clips, Lee Meier says "I may say, yeah and Bitcoin for a poor African-American audience at 5(...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
Strong retail interest in crypto has driven South African regulators to rethink how they classify cryptocurrencies. South Africa’s financial regulators are laying the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
South Africa’s Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) has a released new position paper that calls for the regulation of the country’s cryptocurrency ecosystem. In the document, the IFWG, which is a creation of the South Africa Re...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
New submissions by a South African regulator, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) and liquidators have exposed the web of lies and deceptive tactics that were used by Mirror Trading International (MTI) CEO Johann Steynberg and others to per...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Six East African states are reportedly set to explore the possibility of using central bank digital currencies (CBDC) as an alternative to their shared payment system. The six countries, which are all members of the East Africa Community (EAC) tradin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Chipper Cash, an African fintech firm that specializes in facilitating cross-border payments, recently closed a $100 million Series C funding round. Taking the lead in what is now Chipper Cash‘s third fundraising round in the past twelve months...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Three leading cryptocurrency exchanges from South Africa recently confirmed receiving a request for client data from the country’s revenue collector. In a joint statement, the exchanges, (namely Altcointrader, Luno, and Valr) said this request,...