Bitcoins
latest news & developmentsIMF urges El Salvador to remove bitcoin as legal tender
The small Central American nation in September became the first country in the world to embrace the digital money, allowing consumers to use it in all transactions, alongside the…
Facebook’s Libra currency under fire
Facebook’s planned virtual unit Libra faces scepticism among the wider cryptocurrency community
Safcoin opens second contact centre, in East London
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
Cryptocurrencies are imploding but Lagarde says central banks should join the fintech revolution
Rise, fall and suspense: Bitcoin’s wild first decade
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
This is the second major attack on South Korean virtual currency exchanges in just 10 days
Bitcoin ‘whales’ pulling cryptocurrency
The cryptocurrency is widely seen as a freewheeling tool as open as the internet itself. But it isn’t
Beware of bitcoin exchanges
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
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’
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
The budget made it clear that financial authorities want the situation remedied
New kids boom on the blockchain
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
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
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
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.