Rand stablecoin issuers want treasury’s revised crypto rules to treat their tokens as payments, not capital.
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Enoch Godongwana says the draft cross-border rules need “a different approach” and a second version is coming.
FNB has added crypto trading to its share platform with VALR, from as little as R10.
Luno’s submission on the cross-border crypto draft questions its consistency with South Africa’s IMF commitments.
Eskom wants to sell surplus power to bitcoin miners, but energy regulator Nersa’s paper leaves key questions open.
Warren Wheatley has resigned as CEO and employee of Africa Bitcoin Corporation, three weeks after the FSCA debarred him.
Bitcoin’s energy use is capped by design and more than half of that energy today is clean. AI can claim neither.
The Trump-backed Clarity Act fell 10 votes short in the US senate, sending bitcoin sharply lower.
VALR, Luno, AltCoinTrader and EasyEquities have joined a coalition fighting treasury’s proposed cross-border crypto ban.
The Bank has told TechCentral it is still engaging on crypto assets, including stablecoins, as an industry campaign builds.