Bitcoin climbed on Thursday, erasing some of its 18% plunge since Friday as investors signaled the selloff may have been overdone. Hours after the world’s largest cryptocurrency closed at a fresh low for the year
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I am often asked what the best way for someone to invest passively in the cryptocurrency market might be. What coin should they buy or what options do they have if they don’t want to worry about everyday price
Bitcoin tumbled to its lowest level since February as the meltdown in the world’s largest digital currency accelerated, renewing concern about the long-term viability of the much-hyped alternative to traditional
The 2018 selloff in cryptocurrencies deepened, wiping out $42bn (R547bn) of market value over the weekend and extending this year’s slump in bitcoin to more than 50%. Some observers pinned the retreat on an
Bitcoin extended losses for a third day, tumbling 12% on Sunday as South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail said there was a “cyber intrusion” in its system. The largest cryptocurrency declined to US$6 749 as of 2pm in New
Like politics, religion and economics, money is a social construct. Money is no more than a collective system of trust. If you sell a bicycle for R500, you trust that the R500 cash the buyer gives you will be fungible for food or electricity
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the week’s biggest technology news, including Telkom’s earnings update, Netflix (briefly) becoming the world’s most valuable technology
While most fiat currencies can be divided to one-hundredth of their values, bitcoin itself is presently divisible down to eight…
A unit of the South African Police Service said it’s started an investigation into an alleged cryptocurrency investment fraud that has affected more than 28 000 people and led to losses of more than R1bn. The allegations
South Africa’s central bank chooses to call digital currencies such as bitcoin “cyber-tokens” because they don’t meet the requirements to be classified as money. “We don’t use the term ‘cryptocurrency’ because it doesn’t