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Moneyweb Crypto
Moneyweb Crypto explores all things crypto and blockchain: the good, the bad and the impossible. If you're looking to invest in cryptocurrencies, or understand this evolving universe, you're in the right place.
Episodes
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Is bitcoin exhaustion setting in?
Bitcoin and ether prices have flat-lined in recent months, but don't be fooled. We are in the year of the bitcoin halving, which has historically been…
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How to weed out the crypto fluff
There are more than 60 000 cryptocurrencies, most of them junk. The team at Riskbloq, headed by founder and CEO Nzwisisa Chidembo, has developed tools to…
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Turning tangible assets into crypto tokens set to revolutionise finance
Law firm Schindlers has set up a tokenised exchange for raising capital and trading real-world assets such as houses, solar power systems and real estate…
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Bitcoin proves its mettle as an instrument of freedom
Bradley Rettler, co-author of a new book called 'Resistance Money' and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Wyoming explains how bitcoin has…
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Sars is using AI to track down undeclared crypto profits
Jashwin Baijoo, head of strategic engagement and compliance at Tax Consulting SA, explains how SA Revenue Services is using AI to zero in on undeclared tax…
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Should companies be holding bitcoin as part of their reserves?
Rob Price of Sound Money Capital explains why New York Stock Exchange-listed data analytics company MicroStrategy has bet massively on bitcoin, and offers a…
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Bitcoin's resurging dominance of the crypto seas
Omer Iqbal, CEO of crypto and payments company FiveWest, says bitcoin's crypto market cap dominance is driven largely by institutional adoption but sees an…
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Is this the future of banking?
Joey Garcia, chief legal and regulatory officer at Xapo Private Bank, which does not do fractional reserve lending and holds its reserves in bitcoin, offers a…
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Welcome to a new era for crypto
Hannes Wessels, Binance's SA country manager, explains what the bitcoin "halving" event means for crypto, coming in the same week that multiple licenses were…
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Can AI predict crypto price moves?
Stuart Perry, co-founder of GG Tech Solutions, explores some fascinating AI developments in financial markets and concludes that AI models are getting much…
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Ditching the rand to survive on bitcoin only
Software developer Kgothatso Ngako is part of a growing network of people who have ditched the rand, the US dollar and any other fiat currency to make their…
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Bitcoin's rollercoaster: will it be different this time?
VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani talks about bitcoin's famed volatility, why bitcoin's current bull run still has legs, and whether we can expect more rollercoaster…
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Crypto prices are booming, but so are the scams
Carel de Jager, research group leader for distributed ledger technologies at the CSIR, shares insights on some of the new scams where even crypto aficionados…
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Institutions flood into bitcoin: What this mean for investors
Wiehann Olivier, digital asset lead at Mazars, weighs in on whether the JSE will follow the US lead in authorising exchange traded traded funds (ETFs) and…
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What a national budget measured in bitcoin would look like
Economist Dawie Roodt takes a clean sheet of paper and gives us the budget we need. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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Houses for Africa: How Empowa has changed the landscape
Empowa's Glen Jordan explains that the lower end of the housing market in Africa is actually less risky than the mid-market and how the company plans to impact…
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Bitcoin at R1m: Bargain or bust?
Christo de Wit, SA country manager for Luno, talks about bitcoin hitting R1 million and whether it is too late to climb on board. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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Making the case for digital rather than physical gold
Rael Demby, CEO of Scoin and the SA Gold Coin Exchange, explains why digital gold stored on the blockchain is attracting interest from gold bugs, and whether…
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We shouldn’t fear AI, we should rise with it
Former Microsoft executive Kerushan Govender – author of Age Of Agency: Rise With AI – says fears over the impact of artificial intelligence are overblown…
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African currencies are being smashed as stablecoins come to the rescue.
Jon Ovadia, CEO of crypto exchange OVEX, walks us through the casualty list of African currencies decimated over the last two years, and how US dollar-backed…
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First crypto FSP licences about to drop
Gerhard van Deventer, head of enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, says the first batch of financial services provider (FSP) licences are…
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Ditching the rand and going off grid with bitcoin
Glenn Jooste, co-founder of Bitcoin Ubuntu, explains how trying to save in ever depreciating rands is a losing proposition, and how bitcoin solves this…
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Got surplus solar power? Start bitcoin mining
Jesse Pielke, founder of Hashrate Up, is helping South Africans use surplus solar power generated during the day for bitcoin mining (and it's less expensive…
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Will we see the mother of all bitcoin rallies in 2024?
Omer Iqbal, CEO of crypto company FiveWest, shares his thoughts on the big crypto stories of 2023 and the likelihood of the mother of all bitcoin bull markets…
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Now you can trade perpetual futures on bitcoin
What on earth are those? Gianluca Sacco, chief operating officer at VALR, explains. Crypto exchange VALR recently announced the world's first perpetual futures…
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Former Europol agents helping SA with crypto law enforcement
Nils Andersen Röed and Jarek Jakubcek, who are now with Binance, were recently in SA to train local regulators and authorities on the ever-evolving tricks of…
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Meet the crypto sceptic who owned and lost more than 50 bitcoin
Marcel Wasserman is a financial advisor who once owned 52 bitcoin, having bought at under R1 000. He became less enthusiastic about bitcoin after losing most…
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Death, taxes and crypto
Thomas Lobban of Tax Consulting SA warns of new OECD regulations that will help tax authorities worldwide to track your crypto transactions no matter where you…
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Why you might want to own a rand stablecoin
It fixes many of the problems in the existing financial system such as high costs and speed of transaction. Simon Dingle, founder of the ZARP rand-backed…
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Are we in for a pre-Xmas rally in Bitcoin ?
It's already up more than 30% over the last month. VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani explains what's behind this explosive move, and VALR's recent partnership with card…
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Will central bank digital cash ever take off in SA?
Michail le Roux of Hanekom Attorneys says CBDCs are coming and that fears of a snooping state examining all our transactions are overblown. Plus the prospects…
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Is Bitcoin's 6 month sideways crawl about to break?
With a bitcoin halving of supply in 2024, Jason Welz, head of digital assets at alternative investment firm Jaltech, points out that all previous "halvenings"…
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Own a slice of property for R100 with new fractional ownership exchanges
Libex and law firm Schindlers have partnered in setting up two exchanges offering investors the opportunity to list and own fractional pieces of assets from…
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Crypto scammers have met their match.
Carel de Jager, head of distributed ledger technology at CSIR, explains how he tracked down stolen funds from a Moneyweb reader with a new blockchain tool that…
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Is the rand ultimately headed to R100 to the US dollar?
Andrew Field, co-founder of BitDirect, explains the history and likely future of money, arguing that the rand will ultimately hit R100 to the US dollar…
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How the crypto industry is redefining ownership
Blockchain is transforming everything we know about ownership. This is the killer use case for blockchain - establishing title to property and, with that, the…
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The taxi industry goes cashless
Eastern Cape taxi operators embrace blockchain technology as they ditch cash and start to compete with the major retailers, explains Sonny Fisher of ForUS…
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D-Day approaches for crypto companies as regulations kick in
Gerhard van Deventer, head of enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, explains how the crypto industry is about to get the policing it has long…
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Converting Namibians to bitcoin one beer at a time
If Nikolai Tjongarero of EasySats meets someone unfamiliar with bitcoin, he gives them the two-minute elevator pitch and buys them a beer, paid, of course…
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How a University of Pretoria drop-out is bringing bitcoin to Africa
Kgothatso Ngako dropped out of university to translate bitcoin educational literature into indigenous African languages. Now he has come up with a way for…
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What happens to your crypto when you die?
Between four and six million Bitcoin have been forever list because the owners lost their passwords or threw away their hard drives. Brandon Sylvester of…
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The crypto boat has not sailed for new investors
Crypto adoption has tended to follow crypto prices. New use cases for crypto, other than speculation, are giving it as push, says Christo de Wit, SA manager…
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Can cryptos help solve Africa's inflation problem?
Richard Schoeman, CFO at crypto and payments company Yellow Card, explains how Africans have discovered a love for cryptos as a way to shield themselves from…
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Going gridless bitcoin mining in Africa
Erik Hersman, co-founder of Gridless Mining, explains how the company is using spare power from independent power producers in Africa to set up bitcoin mines…
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Bitcoin mining: Local miner explains how it's done
Dezray Thomas lives, breathes and mines Bitcoin – using solar and Eskom. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
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Crypto volumes are perking up
Hannes Wessels, general manager for Binance in southern Africa, explains how crypto volumes have responded to srging prices in 2023, and what the future of…
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Local Bitcoin economies are sprouting up across SA
Glenn Jooste, founder of Bitcoin Ubuntu in Swellendam in the Western Cape, explains how you can now live and thrive in Bitcoin-only economies. Going off the…