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Invest with Revix and Win an iPhone 11 Pro valued at R26 000!

Article Advertising Supplement - 29 Oct 2019

Revix Crypto Bundles are a smart, simple and secure way to gain exposure to cryptoassets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum

Facebook’s Libra currency under fire

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Jul 2019

Facebook's planned virtual unit Libra faces scepticism among the wider cryptocurrency community

Safcoin opens second contact centre, in East London

Article Sponsored Supplement - 29 Jan 2019

Safcoin is providing the public with the basic tools and knowledge they need to participate in the digital world

IMF backs state-issued digital currency

Article Kevin Davie - 23 Nov 2018

Cryptocurrencies are imploding but Lagarde says central banks should join the fintech revolution

Rise, fall and suspense: Bitcoin’s wild first decade

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Oct 2018

Here is a look back at some of the trials and tribulations of the world's most popular virtual currency

Hackers steal $30m from top Seoul bitcoin exchange

Article Agency - 20 Jun 2018

This is the second major attack on South Korean virtual currency exchanges in just 10 days

Bitcoin ‘whales’ pulling cryptocurrency

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Jun 2018

The cryptocurrency is widely seen as a freewheeling tool as open as the internet itself. But it isn't

Beware of bitcoin exchanges

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Jun 2018

There have been several major hacks so it’s best to check what security systems they have in place

Madiba’s Midas touch goes for $10-million in bitcoin

Article Gemma Ritchie & Mashadi Kekana - 27 Mar 2018

A South African businessperson living in Canada has managed to sell his collection of four gold castings of Nelson Mandela’s hands

Ramaphosa floats the idea of an ‘African bitcoin’

Article Simon Allison - 21 Mar 2018

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he fully supports calls for a single African currency— and that maybe it should be digital

Taxman is eyeing your bitcoins

Article Lynley Donnelly - 2 Mar 2018

The budget made it clear that financial authorities want the situation remedied

New kids boom on the blockchain

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Feb 2018

Funds are eager to flood into new tech ventures, but the stakes are very high

Why it would be in everybody’s interests to regulate cryptocurrencies

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Feb 2018

While governments need to develop coherent frameworks to regulate cryptocurrency, permanent solutions will be found through international co-operation

Tulip mania: The classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Feb 2018

The Bitcoin crash was dubbed a "tulip mania 2.0" but there is one problem with the story of the Dutch financial craze — much of the story is untrue

Nigerian cryptocurrency craze unfazed by bitcoin plunge

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Feb 2018

West Africa's biggest economy has the world's third-largest bitcoin holdings as a percentage of its GDP because the units make business easier.

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