Bitcoin slid on Monday amid a fraying appetite for riskier investments and an intensifying cryptocurrency crackdown in China.
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I’d like to explain to some of my crypto friends why parts of the mainstream economics and financial world do not take them more seriously. By Tyler Cowen.
Nigeria’s Central Bank is preparing a digital currency pilot that could launch as early as the end of this year, its director of IT said in a recording.
A patch of virtual land in the blockchain-based online world Decentraland sold for more than R13-million on Thursday, in a record purchase for the platform.
Bitcoin is gaining more privacy features as concern increases over the use of the cryptocurrency during a recent spate of ransomware attacks.
South Africa has laid the foundation for finance watchdogs to set crypto-asset controls as the nation seeks to curb growing cases of fraud and improve the management of cross-border flows.
Can bitcoin work in the real world, for the mundane matters of buying and selling things? El Salvador’s announcement that it will consider bitcoin legal tender may give an answer.
Police in China arrested over 1 100 people suspected of using cryptocurrencies to launder illegal proceeds from telephone and Internet scams in a recent crackdown.
Court papers filed by the liquidators for failed crypto scam Mirror Trading International have lifted the curtain on one of the most extraordinary investment rip-offs in South Africa’s history.
It’s been more than three years since the South African Revenue Service’s media statement on cryptocurrencies. Sadly, little further has been communicated since then. By Tertius Troost.