A rand-backed stablecoin may open an avenue of innovation in the South African payments industry, say industry players.
South Africa’s newest crypto-currency exchange VALR sees brisk business after rand-Bitcoin trading opens.
The company opts out of insuring computer equipment used for crypto-currency mining due to the unregulated nature of the industry.
VALR today launches rand trading to allow users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly with the local currency.
Ovex receives funding from Invictus Capital to break the monopoly created by Naspers-backed Luno.
Some of tech and science’s biggest names will chair six new World Economic Forum councils on the fourth industrial revolution.
The world’s biggest social networking platform plans to set up a digital payments system.
The global crypto-currency marketplace holds a series of educational workshops across Africa and gives away free Bitcoin to local university students.
Discussing the use cases for Bitcoin in Africa, Paxful CEO and co-founder Ray Youssef believes the possibilities are endless.
Cyber criminals stole hundreds of millions of dollars from crypto-currency exchanges and infrastructure during the first quarter of 2019.