Cryptocurrency is falling hard but given the development framework and foundation that coders and technology architects have established is going to be useful in the next few years. Specifically, we predict that mobile wallets are going to be a...
Want to make some extra money online? Here’s an exciting new way to do that without needing any special skills. We will take you through the entire process step by step and after that, you can make your first...
Senegalese-American grammy-nominated singer Akon is launching his very own cryptocurrency token called, wait for it, Akoin. The coin is more than just an amusing pun as the project intends to, wait for it again, build a futuristic 'real-life Wakanda'...
This past Thursday, Russia president, Vladimir Putin warned about cryptocurrencies, saying that people should tread carefully about them, describing them as a bad idea for the accumulation of funds and rubbishing claims that Russia is developing its very own...
Much like IPO stands for Initial Public Offering in which investors purchase shares of a company, ICO is Initial Coin Offering. These three words have had tongues wagging in a frenzy in the recent past. ICO is a means...
BitPesa is an online payment platform that leverages Blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to, from and within sub-Saharan Africa. BitPesa's clients range from African businesses and multinational companies paying suppliers...
Piracy has been a nightmare in particular for people in the film and music industries, making it very difficult for them to make a decent living off of their trade. Custos Media is a South Africa based company that...
If the world is your oyster, the internet is the entire sea. The possibilities in this medium are endless. From landing a job in this realm and reaching out to friends to sharing photos and reading the news, the...
Over the past few weeks, cryptocurrencies, in particular, Bitcoin, has made headlines with its exponential growth, increasing its value by nearly $1000 overnight. This has played well for those who had jumped into the gravy train earlier on. While...
A lot of questions have been raised personally to myself and I am sure many are wondering what Bitcoin could be all about since for the last couple of months business news all over the world have been focusing...
No doubt, cryptocurrency is on a major rise in Nigeria, Africa and the world. Many people have turned their attention to this "gold mine" whose value is on an upward spiral. But then, there has always been a problem...
Have you ever envisioned a situation where all the countries in Africa have a single currency for streamlining settlements, payments and remittance? Are we even ready for it? Well, HyundaiPay and ABA think so because they have inked a...
Simply put, Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies. Currencies you can't see but can exchange for the ones you can see and actually spend - physical and electronic cash.
Over the last couple of years, the popularity and acceptance of cryptocurrencies have...
Hey, I was doing a bit of thinking and I came up with this. Are we truly approaching a period in Nigeria when we might not need the services of most conventional commercial banks? Emphasis on “conventional”. Of course,...
Land, property and M-Akiba aside, cryptocurrency is an alternative method of investment that Kenyans aren’t appreciating. Cryptocurrency is a digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer...
Mpaying is an electronic/mobile payment processor that providing an online payment gateway for private individuals and business owners.
The platform was co-founded by Aremu Kamali and Duru Kingsley with the aim of providing a seamless route for financial transactions worldwide....
Bitcoin has been all over the headlines already for quite some years, however, the main reason for that was the speculation around the rate of this cryptocurrency. While there are many early bitcoin adopters that fully support the advanced...
By Michael Kimani
If you have read or heard about bitcoin, ‘the unbanked in Africa’ must have come up. To be honest, you do not have to know what bitcoin is, a quick google search can show you what I...
Kenya's BitPesa, a Bitcoin to Kenyan Shilling (KES) remittance service has closed a follow-on round of $1.1M to fuel its operations in Kenya, Ghana and as well expand into Tanzania and Uganda in an African expansion move.
The two year...
By Jacques Coetzee: staff reporter Ventureburn
Bitcoin in Africa is brewing with potential. From Ghana to Kenya there are interesting startups trying to tackle the issue of remittances, while in South Africa popular payment gateway PayFast recently introduced bitcoin integration to...
Bitcoin was the first widely used cryptocurrency, but there many more of the same kind about five of them
The Bitcoin
Bitcoin comes from miners who process and add transactions to the Bitcoin public record and get rewarded with Bitcoins for...