by Dianne Bayley | Jan 13, 2020 | Fintech
Cryptocurrency exchange Luno is expecting greater adoption of bitcoin and altcoins in 2020, continuing the momentum gained in 2019, writes Marius Reitz, Luno GM for Africa. Here’s what he sees crypto doing this year. Regulation With the crypto space maturing...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 10, 2019 | Security and Legal
Despite crypto being unregulated in South Africa, the current regulatory stance is that South Africans may buy any cryptocurrency assets, store them and pay for goods and services, writes Angus Brown, CEO of Centbee. Like art and jewellery, even though...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 8, 2019 | Innovation
Blockchains. They’re all the rage. They’re touted as the magic bullet for everything from money to medicine to political regime change, writes Cayle Sharrock, Head of Engineering at Tari Labs. And the fervour of blockchain believers has been matched only by the...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 5, 2019 | Security and Legal
With more than enough of our own political highs and lows to occupy our headlines, the vagaries of British politics don’t often win the spotlight at South African dinner tables, notes Nic Haralambous, Coindirect COO. But the looming – and changing – Brexit...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 1, 2019 | Fintech
South Africans are increasingly buying cryptocurrencies, many exploring Bitcoin or Ethereum as investments for the first time on Luno, the country’s leading cryptocurrency platform, writes Marius Reitz, GM for Africa, Luno. Anyone buying cryptocurrency should not only...