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Techstars-Backed Nigerian Startup Fliqpay Launches Cryptocurrency Payments Gateway
Fliqpay, a Techstars-backed Nigerian startup has launched a cryptocurrency payments gateway to allow African businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments on...
Bitcoin halving explained – what can we expect?
Bitcoin halving took place in the early hours of Tuesday, 12 May 2020 and there is tremendous international interest in...
Yellow Card expands to SA & Botswana to allow users to buy & sell Bitcoin
Yellow Card, a Nigerian cryptocurrency platform has launched support for Botswana pula (BWP) and South African rand (ZAR) as it...
Cryptocurrency and Covid-19 – A Look at the Latest Developments
It’s fair to say that Bitcoin has had something of a chequered history, from its vulnerability to cyber-theft and lack...
Blockchain Predictions as we Move Toward Fall
Bitcoin and its value based on the blockchain have been under fire since the massive drop it took back on...
Influence of Cryptocurrencies on the World Financial System
Cryptocurrencies represent an easy and secure form of payment without the need to pay any additional surcharge. Therefore, a virtual...
Binance Adds Nigerian Naira as Its First African Currency for Peer to Peer Trading
Binance, one of the leading global cryptocurrency exchange, has recently announced the launch of peer-to-peer (P2P) trading services for the...
Why blockchain has notorious reputation in Norway
Recent developments in Nordic countries prove that the region can have a huge future with blockchain technology. Cryptocurrencies have definitely...
Nigeria’s Blockchain startup Bitfxt raises $15M for expansion
Nigeria's Blockchain startup Bitfxt which also runs Bitfxt cryptocurrency exchange platform has raised $15M in funding from a UK syndicate...
Crypto Valley Venture Capital to set up Africa chapter in Mauritius
Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC), an investment company, visited Mauritius as part of a delegation led by the Swiss...
Bitcoin Wallet Accounts Now Exist to Earn Bitcoin Interest
If you are planning to invest in the Bitcoin, then you need to manage all your Bitcoin accounts safely. Buying...
Naspers invests $2.33m into DappRadar, a tracking platform for blockchain apps
Naspers' investment arm, Naspers Ventures has invested $2.33 million into Lithuania-based DappRadar, a global platform for discovering and analysing blockchain-based...
Naspers-backed crypto platform Luno hits 3 million users, adds Bitcoin Cash
Luno, a South African-based Naspers-backed cryptocurrency firm has reached 3 million users and added Bitcoin Cash (BCH) to help its...
Zolango, inspired life in a Nairobi Slum, is a Marketplace for Bitcoin lovers
Founded by Amit Aggarwal, Andrei Kaleis and MVK, Zolango, an ecommerce marketplace has gone live and is offering to buy...
Bittrex & Rain partner to simplify buying & selling of Cryptocurrency in the MENA region
Bittrex, a digital asset trading platform and cryptocurrency platform Rain, has launched a digital asset trading platform for users in the...
Blockchain startup Belfrics Group closing $30 million in its first round of funding
Belfrics, a Malaysia based Blockchain startup, is set to raise $30 million in its first-ever round of funding led by global investors after...
BitTorrent private trackers: old, inaccessible, but surprisingly alive
The torrent seems to be going through a rough patch. Governments around the world have been in charge of restricting...
Ripple buys a $50m stake in MoneyGram for its global blockchain-based money transfer services
Ripple, a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments, has bought a $50m stake in MoneyGram in a...
Kenya’s UTU Technologies & Hong Kong’s Graychain collaborate to enhance access to credit in Africa
Nairobi-based UTU Technologies and Hong Kong-based Graychain to give UTU's customers the ability to link their UTU profile to the...
BanQu, a non-cryptocurrency blockchain platform, raises Series A extension to help lift people out of extreme poverty
BanQu, a non-cryptocurrency blockchain platform has raised an undisclosed Series A extension round to help lift people out of extreme...
Binance Labs Reveals 13 Startups in its Incubation Program
Binance Labs, the venture arm of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance,has announced the 13 newest projects to graduate from its incubation...
Block.one launches Voice, a blockchain-based social media platform that rewards its users
Block.one, a blockchain software firm has launched Voice, a blockchain-based social media site which rewards its users. “The truth is,...
Hong Kong’s P2P bitcoin platform Coincola launches in Nigeria to take on Paxful
CoinCola, based out of Hong Kong has launched in Nigeria to take advantage of the growing popularity of Blockchain Technology...
Nigeria’s Interswitch partners with KuBitX to take Blockchain Services to the Grassroots
Interswitch, a Nigerian-based African fintech company operating in 16 countries across Africa, has partnered with KuBitX to help build Blockchain...
Nigeria’s Kudi Exchange set to launch Africa’s “Coinbase + Venmo” powered by Ferrum Network
Nigeria's Kudi Exchange, is set to launch to become Africa's “Coinbase + Venmo” allowing users to buy and sell digital...
BitMart Forms JV with Paxful, Moves to Enter the Peer-to-Peer Financial Revolution
BitMart Exchange, a digital asset trading platform has entered into a joint venture with peer-to-peer payment logistics platform Paxful in...
VALR Partners Bittrex to Launch a Digital Asset Trading Platform in South Africa
VALR has partnered with Bittrex, a U.S.-based digital asset trading platform to launch a new digital asset trading platform in South Africa to offer...
BitPesa raises $5m from Sompo Holdings to revolutionize cross-border payments
Kenya's BitPesa has raised $5m from Japanese insurance group Sompo Holdings in a move expected to revolutionize cross-border payments and insurance services globally....
Aeternity Africa to train SMEs on crowdfunding using blockchain technology
Aeternity Africa, a Nairobi-based blockchain platform is seeking to promote, showcase and demonstrate the disruptive potential of blockchain technology in...
Reasons for the Growing Bitcoin market in Africa
Recently, Africa has shown to be a fertile ground for Cryptocurrency with several countries such as South Africa, Kenya, Ghana,...